Alice Teichova

Alice Teichova (19 September 1920 – 12 March 2015) was an Austrian-born British economist and economic historian. She was considered one of the leading economic historians of modern Central Europe.^[1] Her publications included a landmark survey of the international business relations of Czechoslovakia, An Economic Background to Munich, published in 1974.^[1] She co-authored her most recent work, Nation, State and the Economy in History (2003), with the Austrian economist historian, Herbert Matis.^[1]

Teichova was born into a Jewish family in Vienna on 19 September 1920 to Arthur Schwarz, a watchmaker, and Gisela (née Leist).^[1] She was raised in a single room residence in the Floridsdorf district of Vienna, where her father owned a watch shop.^[1] The family fled Austria in the late 1930s following the rise of the Nazis and the Anschluss in 1938.^[1] Alice, who had obtained a job as a maid in Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, England, was the first to flee the country.^[1] The rest of the family later joined her in the United Kingdom.^[1] She met her husband, Mikulás Teich, who became a leading Slovak science historian, at a refugee club in the UK in 1940.^[1]

Teichova became the first female professor at the University of East Anglia.^[1] In 1985, Teichova received an honorary doctorate from Uppsala University, Sweden.^[2]

Alice Teichova died on 12 March 2015, at the age of 94.^[1]

References

1. Evans, Richard J. (2015-04-21). "Alice Teichova obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 2015-04-26.
2. "Honorary doctorates - Uppsala University, Sweden". uu.se. Retrieved 2016-09-10.