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Wilhelm Ott

Curriculum Vitae



1938 January 3: born in Gerolzhofen/Germany
1949-1957 Altes Gymnasium Würzburg
1957-1966 read Philosophy, Theology, Classics at Rome, Würzburg, Tübingen, München
1965 Dr. theol. (University of Würzburg) with a dissertation on a New Testament subject (#1 in the attached publications list)
1966 March-April: First contact with computing as participant of a programming course "Nichtnumerische Datenverarbeitung" (non-numeric data processing) at the Deutsches Rechenzentrum Darmstadt; first programs for metrical analysis of latin hexameter poetry
1966-2003 research officer (wissenschaftlicher Angestellter) for computer applications in the humanities, Computing Center of the University of Tübingen
1966-1970 responsible for the operating system of the computing center's mainframe computer (Control Data 3300); starting to develop software for text data processing and analysis
1970-2003 head of the (newly created) Division for Literary and Documentary Data Processing, where the "Tübingen System of Text Processing Programs" (TUSTEP) has been developed
1973 Founder member, ALLC
1973 Chairman, ALLC Specialist Group "Textual Editing Techniques"
1973-2003 vice-director of the Computing Center of the University of Tübingen
1973 May: co-founder of pagina GmbH
1973 November: first "Kolloquium zur Anwendung der EDV in den Geisteswissenschaften an der Universität Tübingen" (last Kolloquium, Nr. 90: February 7, 2004). For the reports of these colloquia see http://www.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de/tustep/kolloq.html
1985-1989 Head of the "Forschungsschwerpunkt 08: Wissenschaftliche Textdatenverarbeitung" of Baden-Württemberg
1988 Honorarprofessor für Linguistische Textverarbeitung (University of Würzburg)
1989 Honorarprofessor für Kultur- und Literaturwissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung (University of Tübingen).
2002 local organizer of ALLC/ACH 2002
2003 end of January: retired at the age of 65
2003ff by contract with Tübingen University and the International TUSTEP User Group, always acting as head of the Tübingen group looking after the further development of TUSTEP


Private: married (1967, Hannelore), 3 children.

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