MŽIK, Hans von. Rzeszów, Galicia (now in Poland) 24.7.1876 — Vienna 4.3.1961. Austrian Historian of Geography. Son of an officer, gymnasium in Troppau (now Czech Opava) Studied at Vienna law, soon Oriental languages, history and geography. Ph.D. 1904. From 1903 worked in Vienna Hofbibliothek (then National Library). PD 1917 Vienna “für historische Geographie des Orients”. Ao. Professor 1929, from 1935 also taught Armenian. From 1921 also head of the map collection of Austrian National Library. After Anschluss his wife’s Jewish background became problem and in 1938 he was forced to retire from both university and library. After war did not return to university. Married 1913 Paula Horschlitz (1891–1961), one daughter.
Publications: Diss. Das Vezirat bei den Arabern. 1904.
– Die Reise des Arabers Ibn Baṭūṭa durch Indien und China (14. Jahrhundert). 489 p. Hamburg 1911.
– Much on historical geography of the Near East.
Sources: Bihl 100-102; German Wikipedia; marriage in geni.com.
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