Raul Hilberg

Raul Hilberg
Born	(1926-06-02)June 2, 1926 Vienna, Austria
Died	August 4, 2007(2007-08-04) (aged 81) Williston, Vermont, US
Nationality	American
Spouses	Christine Hemenway (div.) Gwendolyn Montgomery ​ ​ (m. 1980)​
Academic background
Alma mater	Brooklyn College Columbia University
Doctoral advisor	William T. R. Fox Franz Neumann
Academic work
Discipline	History political science
Institutions	University of Vermont
Notable works	The Destruction of the European Jews (1961)

Raul Hilberg (June 2, 1926 – August 4, 2007) was a Jewish Austrian-born American political scientist and historian. He was widely considered to be the preeminent scholar on the Holocaust.^[1] Christopher R. Browning has called him the founding father of Holocaust Studies and his three-volume, 1,273-page magnum opus, The Destruction of the European Jews, is regarded as seminal for research into the Nazi Final Solution.^[2]