Lucian O. Meysels

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Lucian O. Meysels (born May 14, 1925 in Laxenburg ; † August 21, 2012 in Vienna ) was an Austrian author and journalist .

Life

Lucian Otto Meysels, son of the journalist and writer Theodor F. (Friedrich) Meysels (1899–1963) and his wife Lucie attended the Academic Gymnasium in Vienna and, as a Jew, had to emigrate to Palestine after the “Anschluss” of Austria . In Jerusalem he attended St. Georg's School and fought for the Royal Air Force in World War II . He then studied history and archeology at the Universities of London , Wisconsin and Vienna , where he was awarded a Dr. phil. received his doctorate. His dissertation on the "Relationship between Austria and the United States 1933–1938" was the first on a purely contemporary topic at the University of Vienna.

From 1946 Meysels worked as a journalist, first for the Reuters news agency , from 1946 to 1948 for the Palestine Broadcasting Service and from 1948 to 1952 for the successor company Kol Israel . 1952–54 he was a member of the editorial staff of the " Jerusalem Post ". 1954–1957 he worked as press spokesman for the Hebrew University of Jerusalem .

After his return to Vienna, Meysels was an assistant at the Institute for Oriental Studies, Department for Hebrew Studies in 1957/1958. From 1959, at the invitation of Fritz Molden , he was responsible for the foreign policy and contemporary history sections of the Austrian news magazine “ Wochenpresse ”; from 1982 to 1991 he was deputy editor-in-chief of this newspaper.

Meysels is the author of numerous books, including God's Avengers - Fundamentalists on the Advance , in which he foresaw the development up to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 . He has received numerous awards for his publications in the field of contemporary history and foreign policy.

Others

The story is passed on in the family that an ancestor, the head of the Prague Jews, Mordechai Maisel , lent Emperor Rudolf II the money to make the imperial crown . Neither the emperor nor his successor Matthias ever repaid it. As an emperor's testimony of honor, Maisel was allowed to bequeath his property, including the emperor's two promissory notes. A copy of Maisel's will is on display in the Maisel Synagogue .

“ I lend the Austrian imperial crown to the treasury on the condition that it put a plaque next to it: property of Mordechai Maisel, primator of the Prague Jewish community. - After all, law must remain law . "(Lucian O. Meysels)

In 1940 the family changed their name in exile from "Meisel", which means "measles" in English, to "Meysels".

Awards

• 1977 title Professor (Austria)
• 1997 Cross of Honor for Science and Art, 1st class
• 2000 Silver Medal of the City of Vienna
• 2001 Gold Medal of Honor of the Province of Lower Austria
• Decoration of honor for services to the liberation of Austria
• Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class (Germany)
• 2007 Golden Medal of the City of Vienna

Works

• Murders make history. Political violence in the 20th century . Herold, Vienna 1985, ISBN 978-3-7008-0301-0 .
• National Socialism. The phenomenon of a mass movement. It started in chaos and ended in chaos . hpt-Verlag, Vienna 1988, ISBN 978-3-85128-004-3 .
• Revolutions change the world . Herold, Vienna 1988, ISBN 978-3-7008-0372-0 .
• Israel. Nation rebirth, between promise and reality . hpt-Verlag, Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-85128-038-5 .
• Austro-fascism. The end of the first republic and its last chancellor . Amalthea, Vienna 1992, ISBN 978-3-85002-320-7 .
• Women for England's Crown. A serious scandal chronicle . Edition Tau, Bad Sauerbrunn 1993, ISBN 3-900977-37-2 .
• Unholy alliances. Who paves the way for Jörg Haider? With a foreword by Erhard Busek . Edition Va Bene , Vienna a. Klosterneuburg 1995, ISBN 978-3-85167-034-9 .
• Victor Adler. The biography . Amalthea, Vienna 1997, ISBN 978-3-85002-403-7 .
• Austria is in my salon. Berta Zuckerkandl and her time . Herold, Vienna 1984. 2., ext. New edition. Edition INW (Illustrierte Neue Welt), Vienna 1997, ISBN 978-3-9500356-0-5 .
• God's avenger. Religious fundamentalists on the rise. A research . Edition Va Bene, Vienna a. Klosterneuburg 1998, ISBN 978-3-85167-075-2 .
• The prevented dynasty. Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the House of Hohenberg . Molden-Verlag, Vienna 2000, ISBN 978-3-85485-051-9 .
• The world of Lotte Tobisch . With a foreword by Peter Marboe . Edition Va Bene, Vienna 2002, ISBN 978-3-85167-120-9 .
• Tunisia. Focus of cultures. Past and present . With an introduction by Kurt Waldheim . Herbig , Munich 2004, ISBN 978-3-7766-2381-9 .

Translations

• Elie Abel: 13 days before World War 3. Documentation and background to the crisis that led the world to the brink of nuclear annihilation . Transfer from the American. Molden, Vienna 1966.
• Anthony Nutting: From Mohammed to Nasser. A story of the Arabs . Transfer from English. Molden, Vienna 1966.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Institute for Jewish Studies was only founded in 1966.
2. ↑ The Austrian Imperial Crown and the native Laxenburg Prof. Dr. Lucian O. Meysels (PDF, 1.5MB; pp. 8–9.)

literature

• Susanne Blumesberger, Michael Doppelhofer, Gabriele Mauthe: Handbook of Austrian authors of Jewish origin from the 18th to the 20th century. Volume 2: J-R. Edited by the Austrian National Library. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 , p. 928.

Web links

• Literature by and about Lucian O. Meysels in the catalog of the German National Library
• Author and journalist Lucian O. Meysels has died. (Accessed August 23, 2012)