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R. John Rath: Historian

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2009

Alexander Grab ,
Pieter M. Judson  and
James Miller
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In All likelihood, Reuben John Rath will be best remembered by Austrian historians for his achievements as an “academic entrepreneur, ” if only because enterprises like the Austrian History Yearbook have provided a common institutional bond that unites all of us in the field. Nonetheless, there are many scholars who will recognize him most for more solitary scholarly endeavors that he pursued with such persistence in European archives and with such painstaking care at the controls of a manual type-writer. Six decades of scholarship have produced three books and more than thirty articles in field-specific journals like the Journal of Central European Affairs, the Austrian History Yearbook, and Der Donauraum, as well as in the American Historical Review and the Journal of Modern History. Moreover, his work has made lasting contributions to three discrete fields of modern Austrian history. Hence the need to divide this historiographical retrospective into three segments on Napoleonic and Restoration Italy (by Alexander Grab), the Revolutions of 1848 (by Pieter M. Judson), and Engelbert Dollfuβ(by James Miller).

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In Tribute to R. John Rath
Information
Austrian History Yearbook , Volume 32 , January 2001 , pp. 9 - 20
Copyright
Copyright © Center for Austrian Studies, University of Minnesota 2001

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References

1 His initial publications on the topic were “The First Austrian Republic—Totalitarian, Fascist, Authoritarian, or What?” in Beiträge zur Zeitgeschichte. Festschrift Ludwig jedlicka zum 60. Geburtstag, ed. Rudolf, Neck and Adam, Wandruszka (Vienna, 1976), 163–88;Google Scholar with Carolyn, Schum, “The Dollfuss–Schuschnigg–Regime—Fascist or Authoritarian?” in Who Were the Fascists? Social Roots of European Fascism, ed. Stein, Ugelvik Larsen, Bernt, Hagtvet, and Jan, Petter Mylebust (Bergen, 1980), 249–56;Google Scholar and “Mussolini, Bethlen, and the Heimwehr in 1928–1930,” in The Mirror of History:Essays in Honor of Fritz Fellner, ed. Solomon, Wank et al. (Santa Barbara, Calif., 1988).Google Scholar

2 James, Miller, Engelbert Dollfuβ als Agrarfachmann. Eine Analyse bäuerlicher Führungsbegriffe und österreichischer Agrarpolitik 1918–1934 (Vienna, 1989).Google Scholar

3 ”The Deterioration of Democracy in Austria, 1927–1932, ” AHY 27 (1996): 213–59; “The Molding of Engelbert Dollfufi as an Agrarian Reformer, ” AHY 28 (1997): 173–215“The Dollfufi Ministry: The Democratic Prelude,” AHY 29 (1998): 161–94; “The Dollfufi Ministry: The Intensification of Animosities and the Drift toward Authoritarianism,” AHY 30 (1999): 65–102; and “The Dollfufi Ministry: The Demise of the Nationalrat”, Austrian History Yearbook 32 (2001):125–47.

4 Hans, Maurer, Kanzler Dollfufi (Graz, 1934);Google ScholarJohannes, Messner, Dollfufi (Innsbruck, 1935).Google Scholar Equally hagiographic are John, Gregory'sDollfuss and His Times (London, 1935)Google Scholar and Dietrich von, Hildebrand'sEngelbert Dollfufi. Ein katholischer Staatsmann (Salzburg, 1934).Google Scholar

5 Gordon, Brook-Shepherd, Prelude to Infamy: The Story of Chancellor Dollfufi of Austria (New York, 1962).Google Scholar

6 A good example of this approach is Siegfried, Mattl, Agrarstruktur, Bauernbezvegung und Agrarpolitik in Österreich 1919–1929 (Vienna, 1983).Google Scholar One of the classic works from a socialist perspective treating Dollfufi's role in the collapse of democracy in Austria was Charles, Gulick'sAustria from Habsburg to Hitler, 2 vols. (Berkeley, Calif., 1943).Google Scholar

7 Gerhard, Jagschitz, “Die Jugend des Bundeskanzlers Dr. Engelbert Dollfufi. Ein Beitrag zur geistig–politischen Situation der sogenannten ‘Kriegsgeneration’ des 1. Weltkrieges” (Ph.D. diss., University of Vienna, 1967).Google Scholar

8 This section of the article is based to a large extent on work Rath did for a Festschrift for Fritz Fellner, cited in note 1.

9 “The Deterioration of Democracy in Austria, 1927–1932,” 259.

10 “The Molding of Engelbert Dollfufi as an Agrarian Reformer,” 214.

11 “The Dollfufi Ministry: The Democratic Prelude,” 193.