Alexander Krischan

Alexander Krischan (February 25, 1921 in Žombolj (Template:OF) Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes - June 21, 2009 in Vienna) was a German historian and bibliographer.

Life

Youth and studies

Alexander Krischan attended High School in Jimbolia and also at the Loga Lyceum in Timişoara. Between 1937-1940 Krischan was a piano student and was schooled by Prof. Elise Andrée in Timişoara. One of his colleagues later became the famous Banat organist Josef Gerstenengst.

After graduating in June 1940, Krischan entered into student-service in the cultural department of the German national community in Timişoara. In spring 1941, Krischan ventured to Vienna and enrolled with a VDA-scholarship at the Vienna University of Economics. He submitted his thesis about the Banat Germans under Maria Theresa at the University of Economics.

After the dissolution of the Post World War II British occupation in 1946 Krischan reinstated his employment at the Foreign office following a year under British custody. After his release Krischan resumed in studies in Vienna. In the spring of 1948 his degree was complete and he received a diploma in economics. This was achieved in conjunction with his dissertation titled "Austria's foreign trade with the East countries during the global economic crisis from 1930-1938." In summer 1950 he then received his promotion in [economics].

Career

Even before his graduation joined Krischan 1949 in the service of the successor company IG Farben AG, representation in Vienna, the Hoechst Group. With his professional activity in the leading position traveled extensively in the Eastern countries (Poland, Russia, Bulgaria, etc.) connected. For years were held by Hungary and Romania most frequently travel. Two extended trips are still highlighted: In 1964 there was a three-week study tour to the United States and to Canada (especially New York, Washington, Philadelphia, Detroit, Wilmington, Toronto). Another ten-day trip took place in 1979 in the People's Republic of China to economic talks in Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong as a member of an Austrian business delegation headed by the Austrian Trade Minister and Vice Chancellor Dr. Fritz Bock.

Source research on the history of Banat

Interest Krischans for the history of his home was woken up as a schoolboy when he acquaintance with documents from the abandoned archives of the Graf family Csekonics (former manorial in Hatzfeld) made. After graduation contributed Krischan student Fachdienst the Cultural Office of the German national community in Romania in the German House in Timişoara. The acquaintance with the works of Böhm, Hoffmann, Juhász, Milleker, Schwicker and Wettel in the holdings of the library there aroused his interest in the history of Banat s. Much of this interest the study of the bibliography of Hermann Hienz should be. It was a key moment, and was instrumental in that he "Banat Bibliography" no longer got away from a project, as there was not anything like the literature of Banat.

First he dealt with the medieval history of his home town, which in the papal Zehentregistern first mentioned 1332/33. The product was the "German Research in Hungary", Budapest sent, and appeared in 1942. After moving to Vienna especially the rich holdings of the Hofkammerarchiv have exerted on him a strong attraction. Even as a 20-year-old student he began with archival researches. Particular emphasis is given that he first published and critically examined colonization patent Maria Theresa s of 1763 after completion of the Seven Years' War, which in the "German archive for state and people research", Leipzig, 1943 (Prof. Meynen) appeared.

A new beginning could be made during the fifties when he began professionally to travel to the West Country. This activity should last through years. Here he had the opportunity now to see the existing in Budapest and Bucharest material, in particular the non entlehnbaren periodicals.

From West German cultural work in 1969 and 1987, the books were "The, Temesvar newspaper as Banat Geschichtsquelle 1852-1941", "The German periodical literature of Banat 1771-1971" and in 2000 "Archival sources for the history of Banat, instructions, memoranda, patents, contracts 1695-1873 "published.

The occasion of his 75th birthday published Festschrift "Banatica", published by the Association of Banat Swabians in Austria, with contributions from 34 authors. The bibliographer Culture Monograph and historian Dr. Alexander Krischan is counted by the experts of the important Banatforschern our time. Dr. Krischan has created an extensive private archive, which includes almost all areas of Banat literature, which mainly consists of 20,000 index leaves Banat bibliography should be mentioned from 1514 to 1965. The range of topics extends from bibliography, cartography, historiography, balneology on local and settlement history, biography, location name and clan customer to printing and journalism.[1]

Memberships

Appreciations and awards

Independent Publications

References

  1. ↑ the death of the Banat-researcher Dr. Alexander Krischan, obituary by Hans Dama 11 July 2009.
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