Alois Brusatti

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Alois Brusatti (born March 4, 1919 in Vienna ; † October 1, 2008 ) was an Austrian economic and social historian. He is considered the "father of historical company analysis".

Life

Brusatti came from a wealthy, Catholic-Conservative family in Baden near Vienna . After graduating from school in 1937, he served the one-year volunteer year in the newly formed armed forces. After the annexation of Austria and the subsequent outbreak of the Second World War, the originally planned year turned into seven years in the field, only interrupted by wartime schooling, hospital stays and war prisoners. 50% kriegsversehrt returned Brusatti as award-winning captain back to Baden. From 1946 he studied history, art history, economics and philosophy at the University of Vienna . In 1947 he married. In July 1950 he started with a thesis on "The Reich circles at the time of Maximilian II." to the Dr. phil. PhD . For family reasons, he then worked as an industrial clerk. It was not until 1955 that he embarked on a scientific career and became a scientific assistant at what was then the Vienna University of World Trade . In 1961 he completed his habilitation with the thesis "The Habsburg Monarchy on the Eve of the Industrial Revolution. Studies on the Economic and Social History of Austria in the First Half of the 19th Century". In 1965 he was appointed associate professor and in 1969 professor for economic and social history. In the academic year 1972/73 he was elected Vice Rector and then from 1975 to 1981 inclusive Rector of the Vienna University of Economics and Business. His rectorate included the conversion of the University of World Trade into a business university, the study reform and the planning of the new main building in Vienna- Währing . In 1989 he was finally retired .

The father of two sons was politically active and was, among other things, a member of the parliamentary committees for university policy and development issues, vice-president of the Danube European Institute and the Latin America Institute, long-time managing director of the Cardinal Innitzer Fund for the Advancement of Science , chairman of the Association of Scientific Research the field of entrepreneur biographies and company history, chairman of the association for contemporary economic history, member of the Rotary Club Baden and co-initiator of the Baden 2002 project.

Brusatti wrote around 20 books and many articles on economic and social history, historical company analysis and economic and social policy.

Fonts

  • Austrian economic policy from Josephinism to the corporate state, 1965
  • Economic and social history of the industrial age, 1967
  • 100 years of Austrian tourism, 1984
  • J. Raab, a biography, 1986 (ed.)

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. Friedrich Kornauth: Curriculum Vitae Austriacum , in: Alois Brusatti: Reflections on Economic and Social History , pp. XI-XIV.
  2. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB).

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personal data
SURNAME Brusatti, Alois
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian economic and social historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH October 1, 2008