Walter Leitsch

Walter Leitsch (born March 26, 1926 in Vienna ; † February 22, 2010 ibid) was an Austrian historian and from 1965 to 1996 full professor of history at the Institute for Eastern European History at the University of Vienna .

Life

Leitsch and his family had to leave Austria as a result of the annexation to the German Reich in 1938 because his father was Jewish. The family fled to Estonia and after the outbreak of war they were deported to a camp in Kazakhstan , where their father died. Walter Leitsch and his mother did not return to Vienna until 1947. Leitsch made up his Matura in Vienna and studied history and Slavic philology at the University of Vienna from 1949 to 1954 . He also completed the course at the Institute for Austrian Historical Research from 1953 to 1956 . In 1965 he was appointed to the chair for Eastern European History, which he held until 1996. Since 1989 he has been a full member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences , since 2001 a member of the Polish Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. In 2004 Leitsch was awarded the Golden Doctoral Degree from the University of Vienna. He was buried in the family grave in the cemetery of the fire hall Simmering (department E13, group 1, number 598).

Web links

• Literature by and about Walter Leitsch in the catalog of the German National Library
• Obituary by the Institute for Eastern European History at the University of Vienna
• Leitsch, Walter .  Publications in the bibliographic database of the Regesta Imperii .

literature

• Christoph Augustynowicz, Bogusław Dybaś, Marija Wakounig (eds.): Walter Leitsch and the Polish Historiography (= symposiums and seminars at the Scientific Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Vienna. 10). Polish Academy of Sciences - Scientific Center in Vienna, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-9503154-9-3 .