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Civil War scholar and retired Gettysburg College professor Gabor Boritt dies at 86
Gabor S. Boritt founded the Civil War Institute and helped establish the $50,000 Lincoln Prize, earning a National Humanities Medal for his scholarship on Abraham Lincoln.
- On Monday, history professor Gabor S. Boritt, 86, died in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, after a distinguished career at Gettysburg College.
- Born in Budapest in 1940, he survived World War II and relatives were killed at Auschwitz, then joined the 1956 Hungarian Revolution at 16 before emigrating to the U.S.
- He earned a history doctorate from Boston University and taught at several universities before joining Gettysburg College in 1981.
- He founded the Civil War Institute and helped establish the $50,000 Lincoln Prize, while serving on the Gettysburg Foundation board and aiding the Gettysburg National Military Park visitors center.
- A National Humanities Medal in 2008 recognized him, and Jake Boritt, documentary filmmaker, will screen `Budapest to Gettysburg` on Lincoln's Birthday, Feb. 12, in Gettysburg.
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