Carl Patsch

Austrian archaeologist and historian
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Carl Patsch on a 2015 stamp of Albania

Carl Ludwig Patsch, also Karl Ludwig Patsch, Albanian: Karl Paç; Bulgarian: Карл Пач (14 September 1865 in Kovač – 21 February 1945 in Vienna) was an Austrian Slavist, Albanologist, archaeologist and historian.[1]

Biography

Carl Patsch was born in north-east Bohemia, as a son of Ludwig Patsch, a steward of an upper prince, but grew up in the Ukrainian villages of Marachivka and Slavuta. He spoke Czech, Polish and Russian as mother languages.[2]

Carl Patsch studied History, Geography and Classical Philology at the University of Prague, where he finished his doctorate in 1889. He taught in Vienna and Sarajevo and worked in the latter city for the Bosnian–Herzegovinian Museum. In 1908, Patsch founded the Institute for Balkan Research (Institut für Balkanforschung) in Sarajevo, where he remained until the end of World War I. In 1921, he became professor of Slavic history at the University of Vienna and was subsequently a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Patsch is known for its articles on ancient Illyrian and Thracian history and culture.[1][3] In the years 1922 - 1924 Carl Patsch stayed and worked in Albania where he helped in the efforts to establish a national museum.[4] He died in a bombing raid during World War II.[5]

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References

  1. ^ a b Elsie, Robert (2010). Historical Dictionary of Albania. European Historical Dictionaries, 99-2094237-5 ; 75 (2nd ed.). Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press. p. 349. ISBN 978-0-8108-6188-6. OCLC 454375231.
  2. ^ Baku, Pasho, ed. (2011). Enciklopedia universale e ilustruar [Illustrated Universal Encyclopedia] (in Albanian). Tiranë: Bacchus. p. 719. OCLC 734077163.
  3. ^ Alois Hajek: Carl Patsch (1865–1945). In: Südost-Forschungen. Band 12 (1953), S. 263–269.
  4. ^ Lafe, E., ed. (2009). Fjalor enciklopedik shqiptar [Albanian Encyclopedic Dictionary]. Vol. 3, N–Zh. Tirana: Akademia e Shkencave e Shqipërisë. p. 1910. ISBN 9789995610326. OCLC 705766082.
  5. ^ Bruckmüller, Ernst; Gruber, Christine; Grössing, Helmuth E.; Obermayer-Marnach, Eva; Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften; Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, eds. (1957). Österreichisches biographisches Lexikon 1815-1950 (PDF). Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. ISBN 978-3-7001-0187-1. Retrieved 9 January 2024.

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