Achill Rappaport

Born:	02-12-1871
Faculty:	Law School
Category:	Expelled teacher

Achill RAPPAPORT (born on February 12^th, 1871 in Roman/Romania) was private lecturer with the title od an "extraordinary professor ("Privatdozent, tit. ao. Prof.") for Austrian Private Law at the Law School of the University of Vienna. He was persecuted in times of Nazism as a Jew lost his position on April 8^th, 1938 and was forced to leave the university. He could emigrate to Great Brittain in June 1939, first to London/England, in 1940 to Blaenau Ffestiniog, Wales, where he died on January 13^th 1941. More detailed biography >>> only in German at the moment - to be translated soon.

Lit.: Archive of the University of Vienna, rectorate GZ 173 ex 1937/38, Senate S 304.1020; Austrian State Archive (OeStA)/AdR/BMfF/VVSt/VA 34084, OeStA/Meldearchiv, OeStA/AVA/Unterricht Allg./Univ. Wien/Karton 613, Personalakt RappaportAchill; MÜHLBERGER 1993, 16; BLUMESBERGER 2002, 1092; SAUER/REITER-ZATLOUKAL 2010, 53, 276; OLECHOWSKI/EHS/STAUDIGL-CIECHOWIC 2014, 361f.; WBIS; David Lewis, in: O´r Pedwar Gwynt 2018; information from Dr. Barbara Sauer, Vienna 02/2020.

Herbert Posch