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Borodajkewycz, Taras vonBorodajkewycz, Taras von, b. Baden (Lower Austria), Oct. 1, 1902, d. Vienna, Jan. 10, 1984, historian. 1943-1945 university professor in Prague, 1955-1965 at the Hochschule für Welthandel (now University of Economics and Business Administration) in Vienna. In 1965 his anti-Semitic and neo-Nazi comments gave rise to demonstrations and political unrest in which one person was killed (E. Kirchweger). Literature: H. Fischer (ed.), Einer im Vordergrund. T. B. Eine Dokumentation, 1966; G. E. Kasemir, Die B.-Affäre 1965: spätes Ende für "wissenschaftlich" vorgetragenen Rassismus, master's thesis, Vienna 1994.
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