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Karl Bosl (11 November 1908 – 18 January 1993) was a
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regional
historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human species; as well as the ...
. He held the chair for Bavarian regional history at the
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from 1960 until his retirement in 1977. Bosl was elected a full member of the
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in 1961, a corresponding member of the
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in 1970 and of the
British Academy The British Academy for the Promotion of Historical, Philosophical and Philological Studies is the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and the social sciences. It was established in 1902 and received its royal charter in the sa ...
the same year. In 1973 he was elected a corresponding member of the
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. In 2011, his conduct during the
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, including his links with the Nazi government and his claims of having been a member of the German resistance, were examined in a book by
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and
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. He had eulogized the Nazi resistance fighter
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at Limpert's funeral in the beginning of attempts to cover up his past association with the Nazi Party.


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Corresponding fellows of the British Academy 1908 births 1993 deaths Historians of Germany Members of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences Members of the Austrian Academy of Sciences Academic staff of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Sturmabteilung personnel {{Germany-historian-stub