Alice Teichova
Alice Teichova (born September 19, 1920 in Vienna as Alice Schwarz; † March 12, 2015 in Cambridge ) was a British economic historian.
The daughter from an assimilated middle-class Jewish family had to emigrate to England in the summer of 1938. She attended evening school and university part-time in London and received a scholarship to the University of Leeds in 1942 .
After 1945, the enthusiastic communist moved with her husband Mikuláš Teich , who came from Slovakia, to Czechoslovakia, where she continued her studies, graduating summa cum laude from Charles University in Prague in 1952 and habilitation there in 1964.
After the fall of the Prague Spring , the couple returned to Great Britain and Alice Teichova became Professor of Economic History at the University of East Anglia in Norwich , Honorary Fellow at Girton College , Cambridge, and Senior Research Associate at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
The Austrian Historical Commission she was a member between 1998 and 2003. "permanent expert" as.
Her other academic honors included honorary doctorates from the University of Uppsala (1985) and the University of Vienna (1995). In 2000 Alice Teichova received the Anton Gindely Prize , and shortly before her death she was granted Austrian citizenship again. She is buried in an honorary grave in the Vienna Central Cemetery (Group 33 G).
Publications
- An economic background to Munich: International Business and Czechoslovakia 1918–1938 , Cambridge 1974
- Small states in the field of tension between the great powers: Economy and politics in Central and Southeastern Europe in the interwar period , Vienna 1988
- The Czechoslovak Economy 1918–1980 , London 1988
- The economic history of Czechoslovakia 1918–1980 , Vienna 1988
- with Mikuláš Teich: Between the small and the big world: A life together in the 20th century (autobiography, So that it is not lost , adaptation by Gert Dressel and Michaela Reischitz), Böhlau-Verlag , Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-205-77357- 8th
Individual evidence
- ^ Richard J. Evans: Alice Teichova obituary . In: The Guardian . April 21, 2015, ISSN 0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed June 11, 2020]).
Web links
- Literature by and about Alice Teichova in the catalog of the German National Library
- CV, Commission of Historians
- Golden award for Alice Teichova and Peter Kampits , Vienna.gv.at October 5, 2011
- Obituary on the website of the University of Vienna
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Teichova, Alice |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British economic historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 19, 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 12, 2015 |
| Place of death | Cambridge |