Carl Patsch

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Carl Ludwig Patsch (also Karl Ludwig Patsch; Albanian name Karl Paç; Bulgarian: Карл Пач) was an Austrian scholar, born on 14 September 1865 in Kovač and died on 21 February 1945 in Vienna. He grew up in the Ukrainian villages of Marachivka and Slavuta and spoke Czech, Polish, and Russian. He studied history, geography, and languages at the University of Prague, earning his doctorate in 1889. Patsch worked in Vienna and Sarajevo, helping at the Bosnian–Herzegovinian Museum. In 1908 he founded the Institute for Balkan Research in Sarajevo and stayed there until the end of World War I. In 1921 he became a professor of Slavic history at the University of Vienna and joined the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He wrote many articles on ancient Illyrian and Thracian history and culture. From 1922 to 1924 he worked in Albania to help establish a national museum. He died in a bombing raid during World War II.