R.John Rath: Motive Force in Austrian Studies

Volume XXXII of the Austrian History Yearbook is dedicated, fittingly, to John Rath, who founded this publication and, during its first quarter-century, was its publisher, editor, and copyreader—and did every-thing else except setting the type for its printing. As much as the Journal of Central European Affairs was the creation of S. Harrison Thomson, so was the Austrian History Yearbook the creation of John Rath. Although it was not intended to be a successor to the Journal of Central European Affairs , it was a happy coincidence that John inaugurated the Yearbook just as the Journal ceased publication, and scholars in the field were not bereft of a vehicle for presenting their work.