Henry Kraus
{{short description|American historian (1905–1995)}}
{{distinguish|Henry Krause|Henry Krauss}}
Henry Kraus (November 13, 1905 in Knoxville, Tennessee – January 27, 1995 in Paris)[https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JGSZ-2M9 Social Security Death Index: Henry Kraus] was an American labor historian, and European art historian.[https://www.nytimes.com/1995/02/01/obituaries/henry-kraus-labor-historian-and-writer-on-european-art-89.html?pagewanted=1 "Henry Kraus, Labor Historian And Writer on European Art, 89"], The New York Times, LAWRENCE VAN GELDER, February 1, 1995
He graduated from the University of Chicago and Western Reserve University with a master's degree in 1928.
He was an organizer of the Flint Sit-Down Strike,{{Cite web|url=http://www.historicalvoices.org/flint/strike.php|title=Flint Sit-Down Strike - the Strike}} and edited The Flint Auto Worker.{{Cite web|url=http://www.the-spark.net/o_flintsit.html|title = The Flint Sit Down: The Strike Which Broke the Bosses' Intransigence}}
Sol Dollinger was critical of his account of the strike.{{Cite web |url=http://www.solidarity-us.org/current/node/2405 |title=Flint and the Rewriting of History | Solidarity |access-date=2010-03-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110320114347/http://www.solidarity-us.org/current/node/2405 |archive-date=2011-03-20 |url-status=dead }}
He married Dorothy Kraus, who helped organize the UAW Women's Auxiliary.{{Cite web|url=http://www.reuther.wayne.edu/node/3519|title = Walter P. Reuther Library Dorothy Kraus Papers}}
He was the first editor of the United Automobile Workers' newspaper, The United Auto Worker.
He moved to Paris, and worked as a European correspondent for World Wide Medical News Service.
His papers are at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University.{{Cite web|url=http://www.reuther.wayne.edu/node/1256|title = Walter P. Reuther Library Henry Kraus Papers}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.umflint.edu/library/archives/labor.htm |title=Labor History Project |access-date=2010-03-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100408022719/http://www.umflint.edu/library/archives/labor.htm |archive-date=2010-04-08 |url-status=dead }}
Awards
Archival Collections
The [http://reuther.wayne.edu/node/1256 Henry Kraus Papers] at the Walter P. Reuther Library date from 1926-1960. His papers reflect his attempts to organize auto workers and the early history of the United Automobile Workers from 1935-1941. Particularly well-documented in the collection are the Flint sit-down strike and factionalism within the UAW.
Works
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=ckzGX-X4WQsC&q=Henry+Kraus Heroes of Unwritten Story], University of Illinois Press, 1994, {{ISBN|978-0-252-06397-8}}
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=N7iaGbic3wUC&q=Henry+Kraus The Many and the Few], University of Illinois Press, 1947, {{ISBN|978-0-252-01199-3}}
- The Living Theater of Medieval Art, Indiana University Press, 1967 (reprint University of Pennsylvania Press, 1972, {{ISBN|978-0-8122-1056-9}})
- Hidden World of Misericords, Authors Dorothy Kraus, Henry Kraus, Joseph, 1976, {{ISBN|978-0-7181-1485-5}}
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=QLwNAAAAQAAJ&q=Henry+Kraus Gothic Stalls of Spain], Authors Dorothy Kraus, Henry Kraus, Routledge, 1986, {{ISBN|978-0-7102-0294-9}}
- Gold Was the Mortar: The Economics of Cathedral Building. Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979, {{ISBN|978-0-7100-8728-7}}
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20100528050741/http://www.umflint.edu/library/archives/kraus.htm "Kraus"], University of Michigan-Flint Labor History Project
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Category:University of Chicago alumni
Category:Case Western Reserve University alumni
Category:20th-century American historians