Ernst Wangermann
Ernst Wangermann (22 January 1925 - 26 November 2021) was an Austrian historian. Biography
Wangermann was born in Vienna. He emigrated with his sister from Austria to the UK in 1939 on one of the Kindertransport, following the Anschluss and due to the anti-Semitism his family faced there. His first years in the UK were spent in Manchester, where he was supported by the Quaker community. In 1946 he obtained a scholarship to read history at Balliol College, Oxford where he studied under the Marxist historian Christopher Hill. Academic career
After receiving his DPhil in 1953, Wangermann was appointed Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Leeds. He was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 1970 and to Reader in 1977. At Leeds his teaching was mainly concerned with European social and intellectual history in the period between the French Revolution of 1789 and the Russian Revolution of 1917. From 1984 to 1995 Wangermann was Professor of Austrian history at the Institute for History at the University of Salzburg. In 1997, he was the recipient of a Festschrift. Marriage and children
In 1966 Wangermann married Maria Josefa Fernández, a lectora in the Spanish Department at Leeds. They had two sons. Death
Wangermann died at his home in Salzburg on 26 November 2021, aged 96. Major works
 Von Joseph II. zu den Jakobinerprozessen. Wien 1966, . Aufklärung und staatsbürgerliche Erziehung. Gottfried van Swieten als Reformator des österreichischen Unterrichtswesens 1781–1791. Munich 1978, . Die Waffen der Publizität. Zum Funktionswandel der politischen Literatur unter Joseph II.. Vienna 2004, . Aufklärung und Josephinismus. Studien zu Ursprung und Nachwirkungen der Reformen Josephs II. Bochum 2016, . External links
 Obituary from Salzburg University
 Ninetieth birthday announcement
 Obituary from Leeds University

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1925 births
2021 deaths
Alumni of the University of Oxford
Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford
Academics of the University of Leeds
Academics from Vienna