Richard Blaas

Richard Blaas (born April 20, 1913 in Dorf Tirol ; † November 17, 2004 ) was an Austrian historian , archivist and general director of the Austrian State Archives .

Life

After his high school studies in Meran and at the Johanneum in Dorf Tirol, he entered the Jesuit order , which he left again in 1942. Blaas began studying history , German and English at the University of Vienna in 1941 . Due to the war, he had to interrupt his studies and in 1943 was taken prisoner by the British, from which he was released in 1946. In the same year he completed his studies and was a thesis on pontificum studies on Thomas Eben Dorfers Liber Dr. phil. PhD. From 1946 to 1948 he attended the training class at the Institute for Austrian Historical Research . In 1948 he began his service in the house, court and state archives, which he headed between 1957 and 1976 as director. He succeeded Walter Goldinger as General Director of the Austrian State Archives in 1976 and remained so until 1978.

Between 1969 and 1977 Blaas was the founding president of the Association of Austrian Archivists, and since 1973 he has held an honorary professorship for archival studies and modern Austrian and Italian history at the University of Salzburg .

Blaas was a member of the Commission for the Modern History of Austria .

The focus of his work was the Italian-Austrian history of the 19th century. His estate is in the Austrian State Archives.

Works (selection)

• The regests of Emperor Heinrich III. 1039-1056 , 1948.
• Tyrolean official books and registries , 1952.

Web links

• Literature by and about Richard Blaas in the catalog of the German National Library
• Blaas, Richard .  Publications in the bibliographic database of the Regesta Imperii .
• Holdings information on the Richard Blaas estate

literature

• Fritz Fellner : "... a truly patriotic work". The Commission for Modern History of Austria 1897–2000 (= publications of the Commission for Modern History of Austria. Vol. 91). With the collaboration of Franz Adlgasser and Doris Corradini. Böhlau, Vienna et al. 2001, ISBN 3-205-99376-4 , p. 261.
• Andreas Schwarcz (Ed.): Documents - Writings - Orders of Life: New Contributions to Medieval Studies; Lectures at the annual conference of the Institute for Austrian Historical Research on the occasion of the 100th birthday of Heinrich Fichtenau (1912–2000), p. 327 f.

supporting documents

1. ↑ Richard Blaas in the search for the deceased at friedhoefewien.at.