ABSTRACT
Fritz Fellner, one of the "grand old men" of the Austrian historical profession in post-World War II Austria and long-time professor of modern history at the University of Salzburg, notes that he has had a life-long interest in the biographies of historians and issues of Austrian historiography. Ever since he edited the diaries of the historian and politician Josef Redlich as a young scholar. In retirement, he finally had time on his hands; with Doris Corradini he found a collaborator to begin systematizing and archiving a massive set of biographical data of Austrian historians in the twentieth century. Otto Brunner, born in 1898, had climbed to the peak of the historical profession in Austria with his appointment as the director of the Institut fur osterreichische Geschichtsforschung during the war. As in the rest of the world, the historical profession seems to have been largely a male domain in the first half of the twentieth century.
