Karl Kaser (historian)

Karl Kaser (1954 – 11 April 2022) was an Austrian historian who specialized in Southeastern Europe.

Education and career
Kaser was born in Pischelsdorf in der Steiermark, Austria in 1954. He studied at the University of Graz, majoring in History and minoring in Slavic Languages and Literature in 1974. He received a PhD from Graz in Southeast European History in 1980. That same year, he began his career as a researcher and Professor of Southeastern Europe at the university. In 1988, he was appointed Adjunct Assistant Professor and in 1996 as full Professor for Southeast European History and Anthropology.

Kaser's main area of interest was on the history of family and gender relations as well visual cultures in the Balkans.

Kaser passed away on 11 April 2022 in Piran, Slovenia.