Otto Forst de Battaglia

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Otto Forst de Battaglia (born March 21, 1889 in Vienna ; † May 2, 1965 ibid) was an Austrian historian , literary critic , translator and promoter of Polish culture.

Life

Otto Forst de Battaglia was born to Jakob Forst (1839–1902) and Rosemarie Charmatz (1861–1941). His father came to Vienna from Przemyśl in the late 1850s . Otto Forst married Helene Freiin von Battaglia de Sopramonte e Ponte Alto in 1912 and in 1913 added the family name of his wife to his name "Forst".

Otto Forst attended the Schottengymnasium in Vienna , where he met the later historian Oskar Halecki . After graduating from high school , he studied law at the University of Vienna . He worked in Vienna until 1938, after which he moved to Belgium , and in 1940 to Switzerland , where he stayed until 1947. Back in Vienna he gave lectures on Polish history, culture and genealogy at the university there .

He wrote numerous works on important figures in Polish history, such as the kings John III. Sobieski and his wife Marie Casimire Louise de la Grange d'Arquien and Stanislaus II. August Poniatowski . He also dealt with French literature. His works were published in German, French and Polish. He was a literary collaborator for many Polish cultural magazines, such as Wiadomości Literackie , Pologne Littéraire , Czas and Przegląd Współczesny . He also wrote under the pseudonym Kyrill Boldirev.

His heirs gave his collection of books on Polish culture on loan from the library of the Scientific Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Vienna.

Works in German (selection)

  • Genealogy. BG Teubner, Leipzig 1913.
  • Genealogical tables on the history of the Middle Ages and modern times. Middle Ages Department. Halm & Goldmann, Vienna 1914
  • From the gentry. Legal and class historical studies as a supplement to the genealogical tables on the history of the Middle Ages. Issue 1, HAL Degener, Leipzig 1916; Issue 2, 1915
  • The French literature of the present 1870/1924. Dioskuren Verlag, Wiesbaden 1925
  • Stanisław August Poniatowski and the outcome of the old Polish state. P. Franke, Berlin 1927
  • The Bibljoteka Narodowa. 1931
  • The fight with the dragon. Ten chapters of the present of German literature and of the crisis of German intellectual life. Verlag für Zeitkritik, Berlin 1931
  • Karl May. A life, a dream. Vienna, Amalthea-Verlag 1931
  • The secret of the blood. Reinhold, Vienna and Leipzig 1932
  • Johann Sobieski. Publishing house of the National Institute for Catholic Action in Poland, Poznań 1933
  • The Catholic literature of Poland. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1934.
  • Jan Sobieski, King of Poland. Publishing house Benziger et Co., Einsiedeln, Zurich 1946
  • Intermediate Europe. From the Baltic Sea to the Adriatic. Volume 1: Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary. Publisher of the Frankfurter Hefte, Frankfurt 1954.
  • Poland yesterday and today. Herold Verlag, 1954.
  • Jan Sobieski. Styria Verlag, Graz 1982

literature

  • Bogusław Dybaś, Jakub Forst-Battaglia, Krzysztof Huszcza (eds.): Otto Forst de Battaglia, the irreplaceable mediator between cultures. Polish Academy of Sciences, Scientific Center in Vienna, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-9502472-9-9
  • Polska i Polacy w pracach Ottona Forst de Battaglii. Towarzystwo Autorów i Wydawców Prac Naukowych "Universitas", Kraków 2002, ISBN 83-242-0128-9
  • Krzysztof Huszcza, Adolf Juzwenko, Marek Zybura (ed.): Człowiek Śródeuropy - Otto Forst de Battaglia (1889–1965). Quaestio, Wrocław 2011.
  • Roman Taborski: Otto Forst-Battaglia on the 30th anniversary of his death. Amalthea-Verlag, Vienna 1996, ISBN 83-902047-9-7
  • Marek Zybura (editor): Drogi i kochany panie! Listy pisarzy polskich do Ottona Forst de Battaglii (letters from Polish writers to Otto Forst-Battaglia). Wydawnictwo Gajt, Wrocław 2010, ISBN 978-83-88178-90-0
  • Roman Taborski, Walter Leitsch, Jakub Forst-Battaglia: Otto Forst-Battaglia on the thirtieth anniversary of his death. Conferences 2, Vienna 1996, ISBN 83-90-2047-9-7

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://wroclaw.wyborcza.pl/wroclaw/1,35771,10346169.html
  2. ↑ https://archive.org/stream/grundrissdergesc14meisuoft#page/18/mode/2up
personal data
SURNAME Forst de Battaglia, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boldirev, Kyrill (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian historian and literary critic
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH May 2, 1965
Place of death Vienna