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Duel of Germanists : The debate between Elemér Moór, Elemér Schwartz and Walter Steinhauser about the population history of Burgenland

Törő, László Dávid (2024) Duel of Germanists : The debate between Elemér Moór, Elemér Schwartz and Walter Steinhauser about the population history of Burgenland. HUNGARIAN STUDIES, 37 (2). pp. 199-213. ISSN 0236-6568

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Abstract

In this paper I focus my attention on the debate between three renowned Germanists of the interwar period: Elemér Moór, Elemér Schwartz and Walter Steinhauser. Their discussion of the population history of Burgenland can serve as a case study of knowledge production. This was a discourse in which the relationship between science and politics or the boundary between scholarship and dilettantism were often tested. Relying on both published material (their books and papers) and unpublished sources (correspondence, commission reports) I analyse the different standpoints of the three scholars and show the development of their rivalry. At the end of my paper, I will draw some lessons concerning the history of historical writing.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: historiography, nationalism, borderland, Burgenland
Subjects: D History General and Old World / történelem > D0 History (General) / történelem általában > D13-D15 Historiography / történetírás
Depositing User: dr. László Dávid Törő
Date Deposited: 18 Sep 2024 13:05
Last Modified: 18 Sep 2024 13:05
URI: https://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/205173

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