Fischer Galati

Fischer

Galati

Stephen Fischer-Galati, who was President of the Society for Romanian Studies from 1978–1980, a founding board member of the Society for Romanian Studies (then the Romanian Studies Group) in 1973–1976, and hosted the first SRS conference in Boulder in 1974, passed away on March 10, 2014, in Boulder, CO. He was born in Bucharest, Romania, on April 15, 1924, and migrated to the United States during World War II. He completed an A.B. (1945), M.A. (1946) and Ph.D. (1949) in History at Harvard. He was a long-time professor at the University of Colorado (which named him Distinguished Professor Emeritus), an honorary member of the Romanian Academy, and former president of the International Commission of East European and Slavic Studies of the International Congress of Historical Studies. His most gratifying recognition was the 2010 Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Centennial Medal, given for his "lifelong commitment to chronicling the history of East and Central Europe, tireless support of junior scholars in the field, and remarkable legacy as a scholarly publisher, whose works populate the world’s great libraries." This is a reference to his work as founder and editor of The East European Quarterly (1967–2009), which published nearly 1,000 articles on East European history, sociology, economics, literature and other social sciences by authors from both West and East; as the editor from 1970 of the East European Monographs series, which published over 800 volumes; and as the author or co-author of more than 250 articles and 15 books, most notably Twentieth Century Rumania (1970, 1991). He is survived by his wife, Anne, who he married in 1951, and two daughters.

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