# Christoph Maier
**Wikidata**: [Q112564470](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q112564470)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/christoph-maier-q112564470

## Summary
Christoph Maier is a Würzburg-born computer scientist and university teacher (born 1968) who works in the field of health informatics. He is recorded in major bibliographic and authority files including ISNI, GND, and VIAF, reflecting his presence in academic and library metadata.

## Biography
- Born: 1968, Würzburg
- Education: (not provided)
- Known for: Academic work and teaching in health informatics
- Employer(s): (not provided)
- Field(s): Health informatics
- Occupation(s): University teacher; computer scientist

## Contributions
The provided source material does not list specific papers, products, patents, projects, companies, or standards directly attributable to Christoph Maier by title or year. What is documented is his professional identity and field: he is a computer scientist and university teacher whose field of work is health informatics. The bibliographic and authority records available for him—ISNI 0000000377901459, GND (DDB person GND id) 1024268586, and VIAF id 255316776—indicate that he has a presence in library and scholarly metadata systems, which commonly represents authorship, editorial activity, or institutional affiliation in published work. Other recorded facts include his birth year (1968), birth place (Würzburg), language (German), and national authority identifier (nl_cr_aut_id: xx0270687, with the name form "Maier, Christoph"). Because the source material contains identifiers and occupational/field descriptors but no itemized bibliography or list of projects, it is not possible from these sources alone to name specific works, years of publication, or documented impacts.

## FAQs
### Q: Who is Christoph Maier?
A: Christoph Maier is a computer scientist and university teacher born in Würzburg in 1968 who works in the field of health informatics.

### Q: When and where was he born?
A: He was born in 1968 in Würzburg.

### Q: What are his documented identifiers in library and authority files?
A: His documented identifiers include ISNI 0000000377901459, GND id 1024268586 (DDB person), and VIAF id 255316776; his NL authority id is xx0270687 (name form "Maier, Christoph").

### Q: In what language(s) is he recorded as working or communicating?
A: The source records German as a language he speaks, writes, or signs.

## Why They Matter
The available records establish Christoph Maier as a scholarly practitioner at the intersection of computing and healthcare—health informatics—and as an academic (university teacher). Presence in major authority files (ISNI, GND, VIAF) matters because these systems collate and disambiguate authors, researchers, and contributors across publications and institutional records; inclusion signals that Maier has been identified by libraries or national bibliographic agencies as a contributor to the scholarly record. As a university teacher in health informatics, his roles would typically include training students, supervising research, and contributing to curricular development; these activities cumulatively shape workforce capacity and research directions in the field. However, the provided source material does not document specific publications, projects, patents, or named leadership roles, so the precise substantive impacts (specific papers, standards, products, or notable mentorship outcomes) cannot be detailed here. The identifiers and field assignment do, nonetheless, make him discoverable in bibliographic and institutional systems, which is a prerequisite for citation, collaboration, and archival recognition.

## Notable For
- Being recorded as a computer scientist and university teacher active in health informatics.
- Birth and biographical metadata: born 1968 in Würzburg.
- Presence in major authority and bibliographic systems: ISNI 0000000377901459; VIAF id 255316776; GND id 1024268586.
- National/language metadata: recorded as a German-language speaker/writer.
- National authority entry: nl_cr_aut_id xx0270687 (name form "Maier, Christoph").

## Body

### Personal details
- Given name: Christoph.
- Family name: Maier.
- Sex/gender: male (recorded in source).
- Birth: 1968, Würzburg (recorded with archival references).
- Language: German (recorded as a language spoken, written, or signed).

### Professional roles
- Occupations recorded: university teacher; computer scientist.
- Field of work recorded: health informatics.
- No specific employers, institutions, or academic degrees are listed in the provided source material.

### Authority and bibliographic identifiers
- ISNI: 0000000377901459.
- GND (German National Library / DDB person id): 1024268586. The GND record includes references to a VIAF links dataset and archival capture metadata.
- VIAF id: 255316776.
- NL_CR_AUT_ID: xx0270687, with name form qualifier "Maier, Christoph".
- VIAF/GND references include archival metadata entries with dates (e.g., P813: 2022-06-08 for several recorded properties; GND reference entries include P813: 2023-02-10 and archival links).

### Recorded metadata details
- The structured source lists provenance metadata for many entries (reference keys indicating archival snapshots and datasets). Examples:
  - Birth date (1968) referenced to a source snapshot (P248 Q13550863) with archival tag (P813 2022-06-08).
  - GND id references include an external VIAF links file and archive captures (with timestamps in 2023 and 2022 as recorded in the source metadata).
- These metadata entries indicate curation and verification events in national/library authority systems, but they do not enumerate bibliographic outputs.

### Publications and works
- The provided material does not list titles, years, publishers, or other bibliographic details of papers, books, patents, software projects, or standards attributable to Christoph Maier.
- Because no specific works are provided in the source, no itemized publication or project list can be supplied here without introducing information beyond the supplied records.

### Research and teaching impact
- The record establishes Maier's domain as health informatics and his role as a university teacher; typical responsibilities in such roles include teaching, research supervision, and contributions to scholarly literature. The supplied source does not document specific students supervised, courses taught, grants, or research outputs.

### Metadata references (selected)
- ISNI: 0000000377901459.
- GND id (ddb_person_(gnd)_id): 1024268586 (with provided references to VIAF link data and archive captures).
- VIAF id: 255316776.
- NL authority record id: xx0270687 (qualifier: "Maier, Christoph").
- Language: German (reference snapshot P248 Q13550863; P813 2022-06-08).

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## References

1. Czech National Authority Database
2. [Source](https://viaf.org/viaf/data/viaf-20230206-links.txt.gz)