Fritz T. Epstein
Fritz T. Epstein was a scholar and expert on the Soviet Union, born in
Alsace-Lorraine, then part of the German Empire
, in 1898. He emigrated to the United States in the mid-1930s, and after an illustrious career, died in 1979. He was married to a Bertelsmann, by whom he had two children.
Life
Epstein was the son of
Theodor Adorno, since Alice Betty was Adorno's aunt.[1] He graduated to Heidelberg University where his studies were interrupted by the outbreak of World War I. He served in a sound-direction-finding unit (Schallmesstrupp)on the Western Front, and took part in General Ludendorff's Kaiserschlacht or final offensive
in 1918.
At war's end he renewed his studies, focusing on Eastern European history successively at
post-revolutionary period of civil war of 1917-1921.[citation needed
]
With the
State Department. From 1948 to 1951 he worked as Curator of the Central European and Slavic Collections at the Hoover Institution Library and Archives, Stanford University
.
In 1962, he joined the faculty of Indiana University as professor and curator of the Slavic collections. Epstein retired in 1969 and returned to Germany to live. He died on December 6, 1979
Works
- (editor) Heinrich von Staden, Aufzeichnungen ueber den Moskauer Staat, Friedrichsen, Hamburg 1930, 2nd., ed. 1964
- Fritz T.Epstein, War-Time Activities of the SS-Ahnenerbe in Baron Max Beloff, (ed.) On the track of tyranny: essays presented by the Wiener Library to Leonard G. Montefiore, on the occasion of his seventieth birthday, Ayer Publishing, 1960 pp.77-95.
- ^ Stefan Müller-Doohm, Adorno: a biography, (tr. Rodney Livingstone), Polity, 2005 p.188
- Stefan Müller-Doohm,Adorno: a biography, (tr. Rodney Livingstone), Polity, 2005.
- G. L. Weinberg, 'Note: Fritz T.Epstein, 1898–1979,' Conference Group for Central European History of the American Historical Association. pp. 399ff.
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