ERIK VON KUEHNELT-LEDDIHN, 1909-1999.(Obituary)

First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, December, 1999 by Neuhaus, Richard John

I was going to write something about Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, but then Michael Aeschliman of Boston University submitted the following about our friend, which says what needs to be said better than I could.

It was a great privilege to have known the Austrian historian Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, who died peacefully last spring at his home in the Austrian Tyrol at the age of ninety. Erik and his wife, long-time anti-Communists and anti-Nazis, were in exile in the United States from 1938 (the year of the Nazi annexation of Austria) until 1946, when they returned to their native country. Nearly every year afterward, Erik lectured in America. He also traveled widely throughout the rest of the world. (Fluent in eight languages, with a reading knowledge of another...

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