Raimund Friedrich Kaindl (*1866 in Czernovitz) was a professor of Austrian history at the University of Graz (Faculty of Philosophy) from 1915 until his death in 1930. Kaindl had been forced to leave Bukovina and his home town of Czernovitz due to the Russian occupation. He had been a professor, dean and rector at the University of Czernowitz from 1905 to 1914. As a scientist, Kaindl devoted himself to the history of Bukovina and researched the way of life and culture of the various ethnic groups living in this region and its neighboring countries. He was especially interested in the German colonization of the Carpathian countries, which was encouraged and controlled by the Habsburg Monarchy. During his time in Graz, especially after the collapse of the Habsburg Empire, Kaindl became increasingly involved as a political publicist, spreading his idea of an Austrian-dominated Greater German state solution.
The core part of the Raimund F. Kaindl Digital Collection are his personal papers held by the University Archives. Among them are documents from his time at grammar school and university in Czernovitz as well as correspondence, handwritten manuscripts, drafts and notes and a collection of photographs. Particularly noteworthy are also extensive compilations of historical and ethnographic sources from Bukovina, which Kaindl used for his academic work. In addition, relevant materials from the University Archives are also included: Historical records related to Kaindl's work at the University of Graz will be made accessible, as will the course catalogs of the Franz Joseph University of Czernovitz.
Project team: Dr. Dorin-Ioan Rus, Dr. Petra Greeff, Dr. Andreas Golob, Dr. Christine Rigler and Kerstin Zmugg.
The project contributes to a joint project of Graz University (in co-operation with Universitätsbibliothek, Universitätsmuseen, Institut für Sprachwissenschaft und Zentrum für Informationsmodellierung) founded by BMKÖS.
Projekt “Sammlungen der Universität Graz: kulturelles Erbe digital“
