# Hugo Blotius

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{{Short description|Dutch scholar and librarian}}
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{{Infobox person
| name               = Hugo Blotius
| image              = HugoBlotius.jpg
| birth_date         = {{Birth year|1533}}
| birth_place        = [Delft](/source/Delft%2C_Netherlands), [Netherlands](/source/Netherlands)
| death_date         = {{Death date and age|1608|01|29|1533||}}
| death_place        = [Vienna](/source/Vienna), [Austria](/source/Austria)
| alma_mater         = 
| known_for          = First head librarian of the Imperial Library
}}
'''Hugo Blotius''' or '''Hugo de Bloote''' (1533, [Delft](/source/Delft) – 29 January 1608, [Vienna](/source/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](/source/Orl%C3%A9ans) between 1566 and 1567.<ref name="Louthan" /> In 1575, [Emperor Maximilian II](/source/Emperor_Maximilian_II) appointed him the first head librarian of the [Imperial Library](/source/Austrian_National_Library).<ref name="ON" />

==References==
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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](/source/%C3%96sterreichische_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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