Theophila von Wassilko

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Theophila von Wassilko

Theophila von Wassilko , after 1919 Theophila Wassilko , (born August 28, 1893 in Vienna ; † June 12, 1973 there ) was an Austrian historian and senior state archivist from Bukovina .

origin

Theophila came from the Wassilko von Serecki family and was a descendant of Alexander (1717–1787), the progenitor of all family members still alive today, great-granddaughter of Alexander's youngest son, Stefan Ritter von Wassilko (1772–1843). She was the eldest daughter of the classical philologist and grammar school professor Theophil (born July 29, 1850, † June 10, 1905) and his wife Friederike Eglseer (1867–1930) , who taught in Vienna . Her siblings were Thedolinde (* 1894) and Alexander (1896–1943), who died in the Battle of Stalingrad .

biography

Vienna State Archives

After graduating from middle school, she applied for a position as a clerk in the Ministry of the Interior, where she was allowed to take up her position on December 20, 1909. In 1918 she was already head of department in this institution, then also in the Federal Chancellery. In addition to her official work, she passed the external Matura in 1928 and then studied philology and history at the University of Vienna . She received her doctorate in 1932. She wrote her dissertation in Vienna on the subject of “ Wilhelm Dilthey as a philosopher of history”.

After an additional training course at the Institute for Austrian Historical Research , she joined the Austrian State Archives in 1935, then called the Archives of the Interior , one of the first archives in Austria in which women could work in the higher archival service. In 1944 she was still a government inspector in the department of the Hofkammerarchiv 1.

After Melitta von Winkler (1879–1946), Theophila was the second woman to be accepted into the senior archive service in the General Administrative Archives. She succeeded the former in the office of state archivist, called the "General Administrative Archives" from 1945 onwards, in 1946. On December 13, 1956, she was promoted to senior state archivist (also first class archivist) and deputy head of the general archive. She held this post until her retirement on December 31, 1958.

Bukovina, home of her parents, was particularly close to her heart. During the difficult times of the Second World War , she supported the director of the State Archives in Chernivtsi , the historian and university professor Teodor Bălan, and maintained a lively correspondence with him. Among other things, she helped him in the search for the revolutionary events of 1848 and sent him important documents and records. The professor reciprocated by sending the annual registers of the Provincial Committee of the Duchy of Bukovina for the Ministry of the Interior from 1913 to 1918, which was missing in Vienna.

The historian has published numerous publications, her most important work being the historical biography of Pauline von Metternich .

Works and writings (selection)

  • Wilhelm Dilthey as a philosopher of history (dissertation)
  • Rudolph Graf Wrbna as sovereign court commissioner for Lower Austria during the occupation of Vienna in 1805, commemorative publication to celebrate the bicentenary of the house, court and state archives, printing and commission publishing house of the Austrian State Printing House, Vienna 1949
  • The teaching council. A forgotten intermediate act from the history of Austria, in: M. ö. S., Volume 6, 1953
  • The international music and theater exhibition Vienna in 1892 and the office of Obersthofmeister, Verlag Berger, Horn 1954
  • Princess Pauline von Metternich, Publishing House for Politics and History, Vienna 1958, 368 pp.

coat of arms

Knight's coat of arms by Wassilko 1788

Since Theophila did not descend from the count's family, she carried the knight's coat of arms from 1788.

literature

  • Katharina Fleissner-Rösler: In the strict archive service. Worlds of life of Austrian archivists 1910-1960. unprinted phil. Dissertation Vienna 2007
  • Michael Hochedlinger: Austrian Archive History. From the late Middle Ages to the end of the paper age. Vienna, Munich 2013, pp. 353–355

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Testimony of the rural class from September 17, 1788, I / 38
  2. ↑ Erich Prokopowitsch: The nobility in the Bukowina, Südostdeutscher Verlag, Munich, 1983, p. 129 f., 161
  3. ↑ Wilhelm Kosch, Bruno Berger, Carl Ludwig Lang, Heinz Rupp, Hubert Herkommer: "Deutsches Literatur-Lexikon", Volume 28, Verlag de Gruyter, Berlin 2008, p. 2068
  4. ^ Society for German Philology in Berlin: "Annual report on the apparitions in the field of Germanic philology", Volume 55, Berlin 1933, p. 3
  5. ↑ a b AT-OeStA / AVA bequests TO Wassilko II, Kt
  6. ^ "Handbuch Reichsgau Wien: 65", 1st volume, Deutscher Verlag für Jugend und Volk, Vienna 1944, p. 337
  7. ↑ Austrian State Archives, Volumes 17-18, Vienna 1965, p. 568
  8. ↑ Ministerul Administraţiei şi Internelor, Serviciul Judeţean Suceava al Arhivelor national "inventory - Fond personal Teodor Bălan (1902-1972)", Suceava 1985 packet 4 Inventory no. 87-89
personal data
SURNAME Wassilko, Theophila von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wassilko, Theophila
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian historian and senior state archivist
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH June 12, 1973
Place of death Vienna