Fritz Schachermeyr (1895-1986, 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".
Etruskische Frühgeschichte, Berlin, Leipzig 1929
Zur Rasse und Kultur im minoischen Kreta, Carl Winter, Heidelberg 1939
Lebensgesetzlichkeit in der Geschichte. Versuch einer Einführung in das geschichtsbiologische Denken, Klostermann, Frankfurt/M. 1940
Indogermanen und Orient. Ihre kulturelle und machpolitische Auseinandersetzung im Altertum, Stuttgart 1944
Alexander, der Grosse. Ingenium und Macht, Pustet, Graz–Salzburg–Wien 1949
Alexander der Grosse. Das Problem seiner Persönlichkeit und seines Wirkens, Wien 1973
Griechische Geschichte. Mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der geistesgeschichtlichen und kulturmorphologischen Zusammenhänge, Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1960
Perikles, Kohlhammer, Stuttgart–Berlin–Köln–Mainz 1969
Geistesgeschichte der Perikleischen Zeit, Stuttgart–Berlin–Köln–Mainz 1971
Die Tragik der Voll-Endung. Stirb und Werde in der Vergangenheit. Europa im Würgegriff der Gegenwart, Koska, Wien–Berlin 1981
Ein Leben zwischen Wissenschaft und Kunst, edd. Gerhard Dobesch, Hilde Schachermeyr, Wien, Köln, Graz 1984
Decorations and awards
1957: Full member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
Corresponding member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences
Honorary doctorates from the Universities of Athens (1961) and Vienna (1984)
Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class
Austrian Decoration for Science and Art
Great Gold Medal with Star for Services to the Republic of Austria
Honorary Medal of Vienna in gold
Medal for Merit for science from Linz
1963: he was awarded the Wilhelm Hartel Prize
