Alfred Francis Přibram

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Alfred Francis Přibram (born September 1, 1859 in London , † May 7, 1942 in London-Richmond ) was an Austro-British historian and university professor.

Life

Pribram came from a Viennese Jewish merchant family. He was - with five older siblings - the youngest child of Heinrich (Henry) Přibram and Sophie Přibram, b. Choose. From 1878 to 1883 he studied philosophy and history at the University of Vienna, where he was influenced by Ottokar Lorenz , Heinrich Zeißberg and Theodor Sickel . He received his doctorate in 1882 and graduated from the Institute for Austrian Historical Research from 1881 to 1883 .

1887 private lecturer, 1894 a. o. Professor, 1900 titular professor, 1913 full professor ad personam for middle and modern history at the University of Vienna , 1919 corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences in Vienna . He resigned from this at the end of 1938 after the academy had been pressured to separate from its “non-Aryan” members.

Pribram, whose circle of friends included Sigmund Freud , Josef Redlich and Ludo Moritz Hartmann , emigrated to England in 1939, where he had previously been an academic. AJP Taylor, the most famous British historian of the 20th century, was one of his students .

Works

Pribram's early work dealt with Emperor Leopold I and culminated in a biography of his most important diplomat, Franz von Lisola. The second part of Pribram's work is devoted to researching the causes of the outbreak of the First World War, with his edition of the secret political treaties of Austria-Hungary 1879-1914 being of particular importance.

  • Austria and Brandenburg , 2 vol., Prague 1884–85.
  • The fight for a bride. Contribution to the history of the Brandenburg domestic policy (Journal of General History 1884, Issue 4.)
  • The reports of the imperial envoy Franz von Lisola from the years 1655-1660 , Vienna 1887.
  • Contribution to the history of the Rhine Confederation from 1658 (session reports of the Phil.hist. Class of the Imperial Academy of Sciences 115.1.), Vienna 1888.
  • On the election of Leopold I 1654-1658 (Archive for Austrian History 73.1.), Vienna 1888.
  • Austrian mediation policy in the Polish-Russian war 1654-1660. (Archive for Austrian history 75.2), Vienna 1889.
  • Venetian dispatches from the imperial court. (Dispacci di Germania). 2 vol., Vienna 1889.
  • Documents and files on the history of Elector Friedrich Wilhelm von Brandenburg , Berlin 1890.
  • Franz Paul Freiherr von Lisola 1613-1674 and the politics of his time , Leipzig 1894.
  • The Bohemian Commerzcollegium and its activities ... (= contributions to the history of German industry in Bohemia. 6.), Prague 1898.
  • (Ed., M. Moriz Landwehr v. Pragenau) Private letters from Emperor Leopold I to Count Fr. E. Pötting 1662-1673 , 2 parts, (= Fontes rerum austriacarum 2, 56-57), Vienna 1903-04.
  • Austrian State Treaties. England , 2 vol., (= Publications of the Commission for Modern History of Austria 3, 12), 1907-13.
  • Documents and files on the history of the Jews in Vienna , (= sources and research on the history of the Jews in Dt.-Österr. 1, 1–2), 1918.
  • The secret political treaties of Austria-Hungary 1879-1914 , Vienna 1920 (digitized version of the English edition: Vol. 1 , Vol. 2 )
  • Austrian foreign policy, 1908-18 , 1923. ( digitized version )
  • England and the International Policy of the Great Powers 1871-1914 , 1931.
  • Materials on the history of prices and wages in Austria 1 (= publications of the international scientific committee for the history of prices and wages 1), 1938.

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Alfred Francis Přibram  - sources and full texts
Wikisource: Alfred Francis Pribram  - Sources and full texts (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Almanac for 1949, Volume 99, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Commissioned by RM Rohrer.
  2. ^ Neue Freie Presse, Vienna, December 27, 1889.
  3. ^ Franz Graf-Stuhlhofer : The Academy of Sciences in Vienna in the Third Reich . In: Eduard Seidler u. a. (Ed.): The nation's elite in the Third Reich. The relationship of academies and their scientific environment to National Socialism (= Acta historica Leopoldina ; 22). Halle / Saale 1995, pp. 133–159, there 137.
personal data
SURNAME Přibram, Alfred Francis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pribram, Alfred Francis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austro-British historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH May 7, 1942
Place of death London-Richmond