Carl Patsch

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Carl Ludwig Patsch (born September 14, 1865 in Kowatsch ; † February 21, 1945 in Vienna ) was an Austrian Slavist , archaeologist and historian .

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Carl Patsch grew up as the son of the royal estate manager Ludwig Patsch in Maratschowska and Slavuta ( Volhynia ). In addition to German, he spoke Czech, Polish and Russian as a child. After attending the Piarist high school in Prague , Patsch studied history and geography at Prague University from 1885 . In 1889 he received his doctorate with Julius Jung (1851-1910) with the work Strabos Quellen zur Geschichte der Geschichte der Geschichte der Geschichte der Geschichte der der Geschichte der der Geschichte der Geschichte der der Geschichte der der Geschichte der der Geschichte der Geschichte der Geschichte von his He was then a scholarship holder and from 1890 to 1892 assistant at the Vienna archaeological-epigraphic seminar with Otto Benndorf and Eugen Bormann . In 1891 he became a member of the Moldavia Vienna fraternity . Study trips took him to Istria and Bosnia . After taking the teaching degree in Innsbruck , he traveled to Italy in 1893 . In the same year he got a job as a high school teacher in Sarajevo , which obliged him to look after the archaeological finds in Bosnia. In the following years he made significant discoveries. In 1895 he found the sanctuary of the Illyrian spring god Bindus at the Privilica spring near Bihać and in 1897 the Mithraeum of Konjica. In 1898 he was given leave of absence from school and was appointed curator of the Bosnian-Herzegovinian State Museum (Zemaljski Muzej Bosne i Hercegovine) . From 1899 to 1914 Patsch carried out extensive excavations and conservation work in Mogorjelo . In 1904 he founded the Bosnian-Herzegovinian Institute for Balkan Research, of which he was director until 1918. As a result of the First World War , the institute was dissolved by the Bosnian-Herzegovinian national government on November 27, 1918. Patsch returned to Vienna and received a teaching position at the University of World Trade . In 1921 he was appointed full professor for Slavic history and antiquity at the University of Vienna , succeeding Konstantin Jireček . In 1922, at the request of the Albanian government, Patsch set up the National Museum in Tirana. When he retired in 1934, he was a well-respected expert on antiquity in the Balkans . On February 21, 1945 he was killed in a bomb attack on Vienna. Carl Patsch had been married since 1894. He had a son and a daughter.

In the 1920s, Patsch belonged to the anti-Semitic professor network “ Bärenhöhle ”, whose secret work made it difficult for Jewish and left-wing scientists to obtain a habilitation or appointment at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Vienna, which at the time comprised all humanities and natural sciences .

The Austrian Academy of Sciences appointed Carl Patsch as a corresponding member in 1924 and as a full member in 1928. He had been a member of the German Institute since 1902 and of the Austrian Archaeological Institute since 1905 . From 1936 to 1940 he was chairman of the antiquarian department of the Balkans Commission .

His estate library, which consists of 1,400 volumes, was acquired by the Munich Southeast Institute in 1956 along with its entire scientific estate . The volumes are now part of the library of the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Research, while the scientifically valuable legacy is available for research as part of the “Southeast Institute” holdings in the Bavarian Main State Archives (Munich).

Fonts (selection)

  • Lika in Roman times , Writings of the Balkan Commission, Antiquarian Department, 1. Vienna 1900
  • The Sandschak Berat in Albania , Writings of the Balkan Commission, Antiquarian Department, 3rd Vienna 1904
  • On the history and topography of Narona , Writings of the Balkan Commission, Antiquarian Department, 5 (1907)
  • Archaeological-epigraphic studies on the history of the Roman province of Dalmatia , Wiss. From Bosnia and d. Hercegovina, 8 episodes in 4–12 (1896–1912)
  • Contributions to the ethnology of Southeast Europe , 6 volumes, 1925–1937
  • Historical walks in the Karst and on the Adriatic. Part I: Herzegovina then and now , 1922
  • The former settlement density of the Illyrian Karst , 1933
  • The struggle for the Danube region under Domitian and Trajan , Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, Vienna 1937

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Carl Patsch  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Elsheimer (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1927/28. Frankfurt am Main 1928, p. 378.
  2. ↑ Klaus Taschwer: A secret thing about the bear cave. How an anti-Semitic professor cartel from the University of Vienna expelled Jewish and left-wing researchers after 1918 . In: Regina Fritz, Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe, Jana Starek (ed.): Alma mater antisemitica: Academic milieu, Jews and anti-Semitism at the universities of Europe between 1918 and 1939 , Volume 3, new academic press, Vienna 2016, p. 232. ( online )
personal data
SURNAME Patsch, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Patsch, Carl Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Slavist, archaeologist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Kowach
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 1945
Place of death Vienna