Wilhelm Ott

Publications

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 5, 2005). For the reports of these colloquia see https://www.tustep.uni-tuebingen.de/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