Program

Research Programs: Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars

Period of Performance

9/1/1974 - 8/31/1975

Funding Totals

$11,250.00 (approved)
$11,250.00 (awarded)


Richard Kralik and the Gralbund

FAIN: FB-12024-74

Richard S. Geehr
Bentley University (Waltham, MA 02452-4713)

To examine Austrian Richard Kralik and his circle, the Gralbund, that promoted a quasi-religious ideology which fused Christian teachings wtih Germanic mysticism and rejected democracy, liberalism, and modernism. This study will show that the Gralbund, a pre-WWII Catholic literary association had an important political influence in Austria.