Fritz Schachermeyr was an Austrian

Austrians

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 historian, professor at the University of Vienna

University of Vienna

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 from 1952 until retirement.

Schachermeyr was born in Linz

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, and studied in Graz

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, Berlin

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 and Innsbruck

Innsbruck

- Main sights :- Buildings :*Golden Roof*Kaiserliche Hofburg *Hofkirche with the cenotaph of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor*Altes Landhaus...

. At Innsbruck, he was a reader in ancient history from 1928 to 1931.
He acted as professor in Jena

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 (1931), Heidelberg

Heidelberg

-Early history:Between 600,000 and 200,000 years ago, "Heidelberg Man" died at nearby Mauer. His jaw bone was discovered in 1907; with scientific dating, his remains were determined to be the earliest evidence of human life in Europe. In the 5th century BC, a Celtic fortress of refuge and place of...

 (1936) and Graz (1940).
In 1952, he was called to Vienna University as professor of Greek history, ancient history and epigraphy.

Schachermeyr was a proponent of scientific racism

Scientific racism

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 during the Third Reich, advocating a "racial-biological view of world history" or "biology of history".

Publications

• Etruskische Frühgeschichte, Berlin, Leipzig 1929
• Zur Rasse und Kultur im minoischen Kreta, Carl Winter, Heidelberg 1939
• Lebensgesetzlichkeit in der Geschichte. Versuch einer Einführung in das geschichtsbiologische Denken, Klostermann, Frankfurt/M. 1940
• Indogermanen und Orient. Ihre kulturelle und machpolitische Auseinandersetzung im Altertum, Stuttgart 1944
• Alexander, der Grosse. Ingenium und Macht, Pustet, Graz–Salzburg–Wien 1949
• Alexander der Grosse. Das Problem seiner Persönlichkeit und seines Wirkens, Wien 1973
• Griechische Geschichte. Mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der geistesgeschichtlichen und kulturmorphologischen Zusammenhänge, Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1960
• Perikles, Kohlhammer, Stuttgart–Berlin–Köln–Mainz 1969
• Geistesgeschichte der Perikleischen Zeit, Stuttgart–Berlin–Köln–Mainz 1971
• Die Tragik der Voll-Endung. Stirb und Werde in der Vergangenheit. Europa im Würgegriff der Gegenwart, Koska, Wien–Berlin 1981
• Ein Leben zwischen Wissenschaft und Kunst, edd. Gerhard Dobesch, Hilde Schachermeyr, Wien, Köln, Graz 1984

External links

• http://www.wien.gv.at/rk/historisch/1965/jaenner.html