!!!Menghin, Oswald

b. Meran/Merano (South Tyrol), April 19, 1888, 
d. Buenos Aires (Argentina), Nov. 29, 1973, prehistorian. 
1918-1945 professor at the University of Vienna, 1928/29 dean, 1935/36 
rector, 1930-1933 also professor at the Egyptian University in Cairo, 
1948 professor in Buenos Aires, from 1957 also at the La Plata 
University. Member of the Austrian and German Institute for 
Archaeology; March 11 to 13, 1938 member of the last Austrian federal 
government (Seyss-Inquart) before the "Anschluss".

!Publications
Urgeschichte der bildenden Kunst, %%sup 3/%1925 (with M. 
Hoernes); Weltgeschichte der Steinzeit, 1931; Vorgeschichte Amerikas, 
1957.

!Literature
Schlern 32, 1958 (list of references); NDB.



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