Henry H. Bauer Collection. 2000-2003

This collection contains an Austrian Heritage Collection questionnaire, providing a biographical sketch of Mr. Bauer's biography and family experience during World War II, followed by his curriculum viate and three essays written by Mr. Bauer. The three essays are entitled "Group Culture & Individual Culture," "Austrian Reparations for the Anschluss," and "Second Hand Holocause Smoke," each essay draws on his past experience of Nazi occupied Vienna.Henry Bauer was born in Vienna on November 16th, 1931. He lived with his parents Anna Rafael and Martin Josef Bauer in the 18th district of Vienna where he also briefly attended school. Mr. Bauer and his family left Vienna on January 14th, 1939 and went to Australia. He attended the elementary school in Picton and went on to high school in Sydney. He graduated from the University of Sydney in 1956 having obtained a degree in Chemistry in 1951, an masters degree in 1952 and finally a doctorate in 1956. From 1956 to 1958, he participated in a postdoctoral study at the University of Michigan where he met and married Chicago-born Myra Lee Levin. They went back to Australia from 1958 until 1965, when he emigrated to the USA and became a citizen in 1969. He was a Visiting Scientist at the Department of Chemistry at the University of Michigan, worked at the Department of Chemistry, University of Kentucky, was a dean at the College of Arts & Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Insitute & State University, Blacksburg, VA and from 1979 until 1999, he was a Professor of Chemistry & Science Studies at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, Blacksburg, VA. He married Dallas-born Barbara Allen Bush, is father of two daughters and moved to Blacksburg, VA.Austrian Heritage CollectionProcessed for digitizatio