AUSTRIA Bronze Medal A.Hartic 1938 Alfons Dopsch (1868-1953) Historian 70mm (4)

AUSTRIA

BRONZE 1938
MEDAL BY A.HARTIC

On 60TH BIRTDAY TO Alfons Dopsch

Obsverse: Bust Left 1868-1938

Reverse: Plain

70mm

Alfons Dopsch (14 June 1868 in Lobositz,
Bohemia – 1 September 1953 in Vienna) was an Austrian social and economic
historian who specialized in the history of medieval Europe. He studied at
Institut fur Osterreichische Geschichtsforschung and was a Professor at the
University of Vienna, 1898-1936.



Dopsch, using archaeological evidence, rejected the highly defined periodization
of other scholars in favour of an emphasis on long term continuity and gradual
change. He argued that the collapse of the Roman Empire in Western Europe was
not as catastrophic as had previously been thought and that the Middle Ages had
evolved in an orderly way as the Germans absorbed and developed Roman culture.
These views were criticized by the Russian historian Alexander Udaltsov who
argued that Dopsch over emphasized the presence of private land ownership and
social inequality among pre-feudal German clans.



Some of his views have since been rejected by modern scholars but his work
continues to represent an important perspective on the debate about the effects
of the collapse of the empire on Western Europe

YOU WILL RECEIVED THE SAME COIN AS PICTURED.

ALL COINS ARE AUTHENTIC AS DESCRIBED.

REF 20 294