Andreas Schwarcz

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Andreas Schwarcz (born April 11, 1952 in Lienz ) is an Austrian historian . He is an associate professor for medieval history at the Institute for History at the University of Vienna .

education

Andreas Schwarcz was born in Lienz as the son of Nikolaus and Irene Schwarcz. His family moved to Vienna in 1955, where he attended the Molitorgasse elementary school in Vienna- Simmering between 1958 and 1962 . In 1962 he moved to the Realgymnasium Wien 11 in Gottschalkgasse, where he graduated with distinction on May 19, 1970. After graduating from school, Schwarcz did military service in the Austrian Armed Forces at 1 / FlAA1 in Großenzersdorf between September 1970 and June 1971 . He then began studying business and planning mathematics at the Vienna University of Technology in October 1971 and in October 1973 switched to a doctoral degree in history, ancient history and English and a teaching degree in history and English at the University of Vienna, which he did in June 1984 with a doctorate as Doctor Philosophiae with a dissertation on “Reichsangern persons of Gothic origin. Prosopographic Studies ”. At the same time, between 1980 and 1983 he took part in the training course of the Institute for Austrian Historical Research, which he completed in June 1983.

Scientific career

From September 1977 to June 1979, Schwarcz was employed as a special contract teacher for English with full teaching commitment at the Federal Commercial School Vienna 10 Pernersdorfergasse.In December 1980, he was employed as a study assistant at the Institute for Austrian Historical Research, where he worked halfway through November 1981 and then in full Level of employment worked. In July 1984 he was promoted to university assistant at the Institute for Austrian Historical Research, where he worked until May 1997. In 1990 he was provisionally pragmatic in this position and was appointed assistant professor in September 1995. In May 1997 he completed his habilitation in medieval history and historical auxiliary sciences and was appointed university lecturer. In October 1997 he was appointed associate professor.

From 1990 to 1990, Schwarcz was Chairman of the History Study Commission of the Humanities Faculty of the University of Vienna, from 1998 to 2003 Deputy Chairman of the Faculty Board of the Humanities Faculty at the University of Vienna and from 2002 to 2009 Deputy Director of the Institute for Austrian Historical Research. He was also a member of the founding convention of the University of Vienna from 2002 to 2003 and a visiting professor at Georgetown University in Washington DC in 2004. Furthermore, between 2006 and 2010 he was director of studies in history (SPL 7) at the University of Vienna, and from 2009 to 2010 managing director of the Institute for Austrian Historical Research and worked from 2009 to 2012 as Vice-Head of the Historical and Cultural Studies doctoral program at the University of Vienna. Since 2011 he has been a member of the steering group of the Institute for Austrian Historical Research and since 2012 Chairman of the Institute for History at the University of Vienna.

The research focus of Schwarcz lies in the areas of the history of late antiquity and the Middle Ages as well as in the historical auxiliary sciences, especially chronology.

Private

Schwarcz has been married to university professor Iskra Schwarcz since 1988 and had a son in 1990.

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personal data
SURNAME Schwarcz, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Lienz