Wilhelm Baum

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Wilhelm Baum (born 1948) is an Austrian historian and publisher.

Baum was born in Düsseldorf, Germany. In 1999 he founded the publishing-house KITAB in Klagenfurt, Austria. He wrote books about Ludwig Wittgenstein and Karl Popper (translated into Spanish and Slovenian) and studied the history of Christianity in the Near East and in India (Nestorian and the western-Syrian "monophysitic" church).

[edit] English-language books

  • The Church of the East. A Concise History (2003)
  • Shirin. Christian - Queen - Myth of Love. A woman of late antiquity - Historical reality and literary effect (2004)

Anton Kolig and Franz Wiegele. The Austrian painters of the "Nötsch circle" and Vienna about 1900, Klagenfurt 2005

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