Hugo Blotius

{{Short description|Dutch scholar and librarian}} {{Expand German|topic=bio|Hugo Blotius|date=March 2014}} {{Infobox person | name = Hugo Blotius | image = HugoBlotius.jpg | birth_date = {{Birth year|1533}} | birth_place = Delft, Netherlands | death_date = {{Death date and age|1608|01|29|1533||}} | death_place = Vienna, Austria | alma_mater = | known_for = First head librarian of the Imperial Library }} '''Hugo Blotius''' or '''Hugo de Bloote''' (1533, Delft – 29 January 1608, Vienna)<ref>[http://www.biografischportaal.nl/en/persoon/80599919 Hugo Blotius] at the Biography Portal of the Netherlands</ref> was a Dutch scholar and librarian. He first became interested in librarianship while studying for a law degree in Orléans between 1566 and 1567.<ref name="Louthan" /> In 1575, Emperor Maximilian II appointed him the first head librarian of the Imperial Library.<ref name="ON" />

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<ref name="Louthan">{{cite book|author1-link=Howard Louthan|last=Louthan|first=Howard|title=The Quest for Compromise: Peacemakers in Counter-Reformation Vienna|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CmCUFpA9-e0C&pg=PA55|year=2006|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-02712-0|page=55}}</ref> <ref name=ON>{{cite web|title=Hugo Blotius, kaiserlicher Bibliothekar|url=http://www.onb.ac.at/about/hugoblotius.htm|publisher=Österreichische Nationalbibliothek|accessdate=19 February 2014|language=German|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140225060939/http://www.onb.ac.at/about/hugoblotius.htm|archive-date=25 February 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>

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{{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Blotius, Hugo}} Category:1533 births Category:1608 deaths Category:Dutch librarians Category:Dutch academics Category:Dutch expatriates in Austria Category:People from Delft