Heinrich Kretschmayr (1870 – 1939) was an Austrian archivist and historian who specialized in the history of Venice.
His principal work is The History of Venice (German: Geschichte von Venedig) in three volumes - a monumental survey representing the nineteenth-century historiographical tradition.
Based on extensive archival research, it deals with events, major figures, economy, administration, religion and culture.
The first volume, covering the period down to the death of Enrico Dandolo in 1205, was published in 1905.
The Italian translation suffered even more delay - Kretschmayr and his original Italian translator both died in 1939, shortly before Nazi Germany launched World War II, and although the translation was completed in the post-war years it was never published;[1] a new Italian version appeared in 2006.