Wiener Zentralfriedhof - Gruppe 33 G - Grab von Alice Teichova

Alice Teichova (''née'' Schwarz;Richard Evans
Mikuláš Teich obituary: Scholar who focused on the history of science
5 September 2018. 19 September 1920 – 12 March 2015) was an Austrian-born British

economist An economist is a professional and practitioner in the social sciences, social science discipline of economics. The individual may also study, develop, and apply theories and concepts from economics and write about economic policy. Within this ...

and economic historian. She was considered one of the leading economic historians of modern

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. Her publications included a landmark survey of the international business relations of

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, ''An Economic Background to Munich'', published in 1974. She co-authored her most recent work, ''Nation, State and the Economy in History'' (2003), with the Austrian economist historian, Herbert Matis. Teichova was born into a Jewish family in

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on 19 September 1920 to Arthur Schwarz, a watchmaker, and Gisela (''née'' Leist). She was raised in a single room residence in the Floridsdorf district of Vienna, where her father owned a watch shop. The family fled Austria in the late 1930s following the rise of the Nazis and the

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in 1938. Alice, who had obtained a job as a maid in Kingston-upon-Thames,

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, England, was the first to flee the country. The rest of the family later joined her in the United Kingdom. She met her husband, Mikulás Teich, who became a leading Slovak science historian, at a refugee club in the UK in 1940. Teichova became the first female professor at the

University of East Anglia The University of East Anglia (UEA) is a Public university, public research university in Norwich, England. Established in 1963 on a campus university, campus west of the city centre, the university has four faculties and twenty-six schools of ...

. In 1985, Teichova received an honorary doctorate from

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, Sweden. Alice Teichova died on 12 March 2015, at the age of 94.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Teichova, Alice 1920 births 2015 deaths Economic historians Academics of the University of East Anglia Jewish emigrants from Austria after the Anschluss to the United Kingdom Historians of Czechoslovakia