Background

Rath, R. John was born on December 12, 1910 in St. Francis, Kansas, United States. Son of John and Barbara (Schauer) Rath.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Univercity Kansas, 1932; A.M., University of California, Berkeley, 1934; Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1941.

Career

Instructor history, U. Arkansas, 1936-1937; summer visiting professor, U. Arkansas, 1947; pre-doctoral field fellow, Social Science Research Council in Austria and Italy, 1937-1938; instructor history, College Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington, 1938-1939; head department history and political science, Lindenwood College, St. Charles, Missouri, 1939-1941; associate professor of history, Mississippi State College for Women, 1941-1943; chief bureau documentary evidence, United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration Bureau Documents and Tracing, United States Zone of Germany, 1945-1946; assistant professor of history, U. Georgia, 1946-1947; associate professor of history, associate editor, Journal Central European Affairs, U. Colorado, 1947-1951; visiting professor, Journal Central European Affairs, U. Colorado, summer 1958; professor of history, University Texas, Austin, 1951-1963; professor of history, department chairman history and political science, Rice U., 1963-1968; Mary Gibbs Jones professor, Rice U., 1968-1980; professor emeritus, Rice U., since 1980; professor of history, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1980-1985. Visiting professor University of Wisconsin, 1955, Duke U., 1963. Guggenheim fellow in Italy, 1956-1957.

Achievements

• R. John Rath has been listed as a noteworthy historian, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • The Viennese Revolution of 1848

    ( Liberalism, in the nineteenth-century sense of the term...)

  • Viennese Revolution of 1848

    (In his descriptions of the times and lively portrayals of...)

  • The Provisional Austrian Regime in Lombardy-Venetia, 1814-1815

    ( When Austrian soldiers first set foot in Lombardy-Venet...)

  • The Fall Of The Napoleonic Kingdom Of Italy, 1814

    (Book by Rath, Reuben John)

  • The Fall of the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy (1814)
  • Austrian History Yearbook: The Dollfuss Ministry; Friedrich Rainer an Austrian Nazi; From Blumchenkaffee to Wiener Melange; End to Witch Trials in Austria; Early Modern Military History in Austria
  • Fall of the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy L1814
  • Austrian History Yearbook: Dualism in Liberal Hungray Exhibitions 1842-1896; Czech National Socialists in 1908; Talkies and Anti-German Demonstrations; Aristide Briand's 1930 Memo; (1998 Part 1)
  • Austrian History Yearbook: Bohemian Boycott Campaigns; Franz Conrad Von Hotzendorf; The Burgenland; The Dollfuss Ministry
  • Provisional Austrian Regime in Lombardy-Venetia, 1814-15

Membership

Served in Army of the United States, 1943-1945. Member American History Society (committee international activities 1960-1966, executive committee modern European history section 1963-1966), Southern History Society (chairman European section 1961-1962, executive council 1965-1968), Society Italian History Studies (Senior Scholar Citation 1984), Conference Central European History (national executive board 1959-1961, chairman 1970, committee on Austrian history 1957-1968, 70-81, executive secretary 1957-1968), American Association Study of Hungarian History (chairman 1978), Southwestern Social Science Association (president 1976-1977), Austrian Academy of Sciences (correspondent), Deputazione di Storia Patria par le Venezie (correspondent), Phi Beta Kappa.

Connections

Married Isabel Jones, June 26, 1937. Children: Laurens John (deceased), Donald (deceased), Isabel Ferguson.

Father:

John Rath

Mother:

Barbara (Schauer) Rath

Spouse:

Isabel Jones

child:

Isabel Ferguson Rath

child:

Donald Rath (deceased)

child:

Laurens John Rath (deceased)