Lucie Varga

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Lucie Varga (born June 21, 1904 as Rosa Stern in Baden , Austria-Hungary , † April 26, 1941 in Toulouse ) was an Austrian historian who, as Lucien Febvre's assistant, wrote various articles for the Annales magazine . She is considered one of the pioneers in the history of mentality .

Life

Lucie Varga was born as Rosa Stern in Baden in 1904. She came from a wealthy Jewish-Hungarian family. When she was born, however, the parents had already separated. The father stayed in Hungary, the mother raised Varga and her two siblings alone in Austria. She adopted the first name “Lucie” while she was still at school. Varga attended the liberal-progressive Schwarzwaldsche Schulanstalt and then studied history and art history in nearby Vienna . In 1931 she did her doctorate under Alfons Dopsch on medieval history. She had married the doctor Josef Varga as early as 1923 and had a daughter with him in 1925.

In 1933, after divorcing Varga, she married the philosopher Franz Borkenau , with whom she emigrated to Paris that same year . Here she met the historian Lucien Febvre, who was in contact with her doctoral supervisor Alfons Dopsch, and became his assistant. Varga became known with her essays for Febvre's Annales magazine , published between 1934 and 1939 , in particular with an essay published in 1937 on the background of fascism . She tried her hand at declaring National Socialism based on the résumés of NSDAP supporters.

Varga and Febvre began an affair after Varga's separation from their second husband, but this was soon ended by the almost sixty-year-old intellectual because he feared for his bourgeois existence. She then made her way as a factory worker, sales representative and tutor. In 1938, she acquired French citizenship after entering into a marriage of convenience as Rose Morin .

During the Second World War , Varga worked as a journalist for the Havas news agency in Paris until the Jewish woman had to leave the city in 1940. She lived briefly in Bordeaux and then settled in Toulouse. Soon after, she died of diabetes mellitus at the age of only 36 .

Works

  • The catchphrase of the "dark Middle Ages" . Rohrer, Baden, Leipzig, Brno, 1932
  • Turning point: studies of the history of mentality 1936-1939 . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main, 1991, ISBN 3-518-28492-4
  • Peter Schöttler (ed.): Les autorités invisibles: une historienne autrichienne aux annales dans les années trente . Édition du Cerf, Paris, 1991, ISBN 2-204-04406-7

literature

  • Peter Schöttler: Lucie Varga ou la face cachée des annales . In: Sextant, No. 13/14, 2000, pp. 227-246
  • Peter Schöttler: Lucie Varga - an Austrian historian in the area of ​​the "Annales" , in: The "Annales" historians and German history . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-16-153338-9 , pp. 150-179
  • Peter Schöttler: Varga, Lucie. In: Brigitta Keintzel, Ilse Korotin (ed.): Scientists in and from Austria. Life - work - work. Böhlau, Wien et al. 2002, ISBN 3-205-99467-1 , pp. 768-770.
  • Anne-Katrin Kunde / Julia Richter: Erna Patzelt (1894–1987) and Lucie Varga (1904–1941). Life between continuity and discontinuity . In: Karel Hruza (ed.): Austrian historians. CVs and careers 1900–1945 , Vol. 3, Vienna a. a .: Böhlau 2019, ISBN 978-3-205-20801-3 , pp. 405-438.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Schöttler: Lucie Varga: A Central European refugee in the Circle of the French “Annales”. 1934-1941 . In: History Workshop Journal, No. 33, 1992 ( Online ; PDF)
  2. ↑ a b Brigitta Keintzel, Ilse Erika Korotin: Scientists in and from Austria: life - work - work . Böhlau, Vienna, Cologne, Weimar, 2002, pp. 768–770
  3. ↑ Careful like an ethnologist. A discovery: the essays by the Austrian historian Lucie Varga , Die Zeit, September 20, 1991
  4. ↑ Peter Schöttler: Lucie Vargas books . In: Werkstatt Geschichte 7, Verlag Hamburg Results, 1994, pp. 63–67 ( Online as PDF ( Memento of the original from December 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. ) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.werkstattgeschichte.de
personal data
SURNAME Varga, Lucie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian historian, assistant to Lucien Febvre
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Baden (Lower Austria)
DATE OF DEATH April 26, 1941
Place of death Toulouse