Bronze AUSTRIA Medal A.Hartic 1938 Alfons Dopsch (1868-1953) Historian 70mm (94)

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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




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