Gaston Bodart

Career Trained as a lawyer, Bodart entered government service. By 1894, he was an assistant commissioner in the Imperial and Royal Central Commission. He published, in that year, Erziehung (en: Upbringing), with Ottilie Bondy, Henry Kautsch, and Goerg Adam Scheid.

In his capacity at the Imperial Central Commission, Bodart helped to expand the collection of the Vienna Bibliotheque. Bodart also traveled extensively. He visited the United States as part of the organizing committee for the Austrian exhibit at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. Two years later, he was part of an Austrian delegation to examine the United States Commission on Fisheries exhibits. In 1907, he traveled from Genoa to New York City, and from there via train to Milwaukee and Chicago, to visit the World's Pure Food Exposition (1907).

In his assessment of Austria's wars with France, 1805–1815, which he prepared in 1913, Bodart wrote of Napoleon Bonaparte, "No other man has sacrificed so many human victims to the god of war as did Napoleon I; no other man has sowed death broadcast on such a scale; no other commander ever cared less for his soldiers than he." His manuscript of Die Menschen-Verluste Osterreich-Ungarns im Weltkriege 1914–1918 remained unpublished.

Selected publications Losses of life in modern wars, Austria-Hungary; France, by Gaston Bodart, Series, Military selection and race deterioration, by Vernon Lyman Kellogg; ed. by Harald Westergaard ... Oxford, The Clarendon Press; London, New York [etc.] H. Milford, 1916. Download Militär-historisches Kriegs-Lexikon (1618–1905). Wien und Leipzig, C. W. Stern, 1908. Download Kämpfe und Entwicklung der russischen Marine seit ihrer Entstehung bis heute: 1704 – 1904. Wien: Braumüller in Komm., 1904. Die für's Vaterland gestorbenen Generale und Admirale der kriegführenden Staaten: 1612–1905 Wien [u.a.] : Stern, 1909. Erziehung, Ottilie Bondy, Gaston Bodart, Henry Kautsch, Georg Adam Scheid. Wien : K.K. Central Commission, 1894.

Family Bodart was born in 1867 in Vienna to a family of Belgian descent. Bodart married Hedwig Neuhold, and they lived in Hart bei Gloggnitz. He received the Order of Franz Joseph (Knights Cross), and the Golden Service Cross with Crown, plus several foreign orders. He died in 1940.