Harald Krasser, ein Mitarbeiter des Hermannstädter Akademie-Instituts und der Zeitschrift "Forschungen"
Harald Krasser – a Collaborator of the Academy Institute in Sibiu and of the Journal “Forschungen zur Volks- und Landeskunde”

Summary/Abstract: Harald Krasser (1906–1981), philologist and historian of the cultural heritage of the Transylvanian Saxons, was one of the collaborators of the Research Institute in Sibiu from its very beginning in 1956. As a kind of employee associate he contributed documentation, translations and proof reading. Although the focal point of his research work changed until he emigrated in 1976, he was still interested in the development of the institute and its journal “Forschungen”. The author of this paper points out the difficulties an intellectual had to face in adapting to the research mechanisms of the “peoples’ democracies” in the ‘50s and 60s of the 20th century. Among the sources of documentation Joachim Wittstock studied that part of Krasser’s bequest which, when leaving Romania, remained in Sibiu.

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