!!!Redlich, Oswald

b. Innsbruck (Tyrol), Sept. 17, 1858, 
d. Vienna, Jan. 20, 1944, historian; father of Virgil  Redlich. >From 
1882 professor at Innsbruck University, 1893-1929 in Vienna, from 1926 
head of the Department of Austrian History Research ( Institut fuer 
Oesterreichische Geschichtsforschung), 1919-1938 president of the 
Austrian  Academy of Sciences, 1918/19 interim director of the 
National Archives, prevented its dispersion amongst the successor 
states of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Played an important role in 
numerous scientific projects and continued the "Oesterreichische 
Geschichte" by A. Huber up to 1740.

!Works
Rudolf von Habsburg, 1903; Urkundenlehre, 2 vols., 1907/1911 
(with W. Erben and L. Schmitz-Kallenberg); Oe. Grossmachtbildung in 
der Zeit Leopolds I., 1921; Das Werden einer Grossmacht, 1938 
(%%sup 4/%1962); Ueber Kunst und Kultur des Barocks in Oe., in: Archiv 
f. oe. Geschichte 115, 1943.

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Literatur: L. Santifaller, O. R., in: MIOeG 56, 1948; OeBL.



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