Fritz Schachermeyr, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Fritz Schachermeyr

Austrian classical scholar and archaeologist

Date of Birth: 10-Jan-1895

Place of Birth: Urfahr, Upper Austria, Austria

Date of Death: 26-Dec-1987

Profession: university teacher, classical archaeologist, prehistorian, historian of classical antiquity, Near Eastern archaeologist, mykenologist

Nationality: Austria

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Fritz Schachermeyr (1895-1987, also Schachermeyer) was an Austrian historian, professor at the University of Vienna from 1952 until retirement. Schachermeyr was born in Linz, and studied in Graz, Berlin and Innsbruck.
At Innsbruck, he was a reader in ancient history from 1928 to 1931.
He acted as professor in Jena (1931), Heidelberg (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 during the Third Reich, advocating a "racial-biological view of world history" or "biology of history".