Zahn, Joseph von#
b. Gross-Enzersdorf (Lower Austria), Oct. 22, 1831, d. Illenau near Baden-Baden (Germany), Aug. 9, 1916, historian. Professor at the University of Bratislava in 1859/60, civil servant at the Joanneum, the Styrian provincial museum at Graz, from 1861, director of the provincial archives of Styria from 1868-1904. Official historian of the Province of Styria, collected and published source material on the history of Styria and Friuli.
Publications#
ed.: Das Familienbuch Siegmunds von Herberstein, 1868; Urkundenbuch des Herzogtums Stmk., 3 vol., 1879-1903; Ortsnamenbuch der Stmk. im MA, 1893.Literature#
F. Posch, J. v. Z. und die Gruendung des Stmk. Landesarchivs, in: Mttlg. d. Stmk. Landesarchivs 18, 1968 (containing a list of works).