Karl Bosl (11 November 1908 – 18 January 1993) was a German regional historian. He held the chair for Bavarian regional history at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich from 1960 until his retirement in 1977.

Bosl was elected a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in 1961, a corresponding member of the Medieval Academy of America in 1970 and of the British Academy the same year.[1] In 1973 he was elected a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences .

In 2011, his conduct during the Second World War, including his links with the Nazi government and his claims of having been a member of the German resistance, were examined in a book by Benjamin Z. Kedar and Peter Herde.[2] He had eulogized the Nazi resistance fighter Robert Limpert at Limpert's funeral in the beginning of attempts to cover up his past association with the Nazi Party.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Professor Karl Bosl FBA". The British Academy. Retrieved 2021-09-04.
  2. ↑ Kedar, Benjamin Z.; Herde, Peter (2011). A Bavarian Historian Reinvents Himself: Karl Bosl & the Third Reich. Magnes Press.
  3. ↑ Nir Hasson (December 16, 2011). "Israeli, German Researchers Expose the Nazi Past of a Prominent Historian and 'Resistance Hero'". Haaretz.


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