Anton Szanya

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Anton Szanya (born March 14, 1945 in Mödling ) is an Austrian adult educator and historian.

Life

Anton Szanya was born at the end of World War II and grew up in a foster family for whom books were very important. After primary school in Vienna-Atzgersdorf, he attended the Bundesrealschule in Vienna 12. Erlgasse 32 , where he graduated in 1964. The reading of the "History of Europe and the Orient" by Robert Endres was formative for him : here he found access to historical thinking and a secular worldview.

In the fall of 1964, Szanya matriculated at the University of Vienna and studied history, German and psychology. He received his doctorate in 1974 with a dissertation on "Discussions by humanists about civil service" under Heinrich Lutz , in which his understanding of education was expressed: comprehensive humanistic education is the prerequisite for political maturity, without which a democratic society cannot exist.

Since 1970 he has been married to Beatrix-Heidemarie Schuster, who worked in the Wiener Städtische Libraries .

After a short stint at the Austrian Federal Publishing House, Anton Szanya became a pedagogical assistant at the adult education center for the hearing impaired in 1975 and was appointed director there in 1977. In the following years, he expanded this facility first into the active adult education center for the disabled with branches throughout the city (1981) and then into the Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus active adult education center (1989). Under his direction, in cooperation with the Federal Institute for Deaf Education, this adult education center organized international symposia on deaf education in Steyr, Upper Austria, and from 1992 to 1998 historical and depth psychological symposia with international participation on politics and religion from the perspective of psychoanalysis.

His main research areas have remained adult and disabled education , political education , history of popular and adult education, psychohistory , modern and contemporary history .

In 2000, Anton Szanya moved to the Austrian Adult Education Center as a research assistant , where he is the editorial staff member of the magazine "Spurensuche. Magazine for the history of adult education and science popularization" and also co-author of the first online history of adult education in Austria from the 19th century to the present , which is accessible on the Internet platform " Knowledgebase Adult Education ".

Anton Szanya gave around 170 lectures at home and abroad and published just as many publications on education for the disabled, general adult education, history and depth psychology.

In 2007 he retired, but continues to be scientifically active within the Austrian Adult Education Center.

From 1985 to 1990 Anton Szanya was chairman of the secular-laicist Freethinkers Association of Austria . and is still co-editor of the journal Enlightenment and Criticism of the freethinking-humanistic association Society for Critical Philosophy Nuremberg .

Fonts (selection)

  • The role of the Catholic Church in the fascist era. In: The Freethinker. Mind and society. 4 A, Freethinkers Association of Austria, Vienna 1988.
  • (Ed.): Politics on the couch: about the unconscious drives of public action . Picus, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-85452-230-4 .
  • (Ed.): Religion on the couch: From the unconscious roots of heavenly powers . Picus, Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-85452-244-4 .
  • (Ed.): Eros and Thanatos: The way of love and death . Picus, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-85452-263-0 .
  • (Ed.): Elektra and Oedipus: Between penis envy and castration anxiety . Picus, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-85452-278-9 .
  • (Ed.): Brothers, to the sun, to freedom !: Myths and legends about the revolutionary . Picus, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-85452-416-1 .
  • Citizen Humanism or: The Beginnings of Political Education. In: Searching for traces. Journal of the history of adult education and science popularization. 1-2 (1997), pp. 32-64, Vienna 1997, ISSN  1025-9244
  • Magic fairy tales and heroic drama; Reflections on political iconography. In: Hans Knaller (Ed.): Counter concepts; Political Education and Adult Education. Studies publisher. (= VÖV publications. 13). Innsbruck 1998, ISBN 3-7065-1269-6 , pp. 153-186.
  • Education for what? Approaching a central European concept. Association of Viennese People's Education, 1997, ISBN 3-900799-00-8 .
  • On the emergence of right-wing ideologies in Austria. In: Anton Szanya (ed.): "Through purity to unity": Psychoanalysis of the right. Studienverlag. Innsbruck 1999, ISBN 3-7065-1352-8 , pp. 14-54.
  • Ùloha katolicke cirkve v epose fasismu. Weber, Olomouc 2003, ISBN 80-968938-3-1 .
  • From magical helpers, shining heroes and sinister fellows: Studies on politics and religion . Studien-Verlag, Innsbruck 2004, ISBN 3-7065-4028-2 .
  • with Martin Luksan and Hermann Schlösser : Holy Notes: Marco d'Aviano, Engelbert Dollfuss and Austrian Catholicism . Promedia, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-85371-275-7 .
  • Josef Scheicher's dream: State models in Austria 1880–1900 . Studienverlag, Innsbruck 2009, ISBN 978-3-7065-4424-5 .
  • The persistent champion of Darwin's teaching: Gustav Jäger's Vienna years 1856–1866. In: Studies on Viennese History. Yearbook of the Association for the History of the City of Vienna. Volume 67/68 (2011/2012), Vienna 2015, pp. 115–172.
  • "The cattle are a man and the man is a cattle." The struggle to interpret the history of nature in Austria in the second half of the 19th century. In: Enlightenment and Criticism. Journal for free thinking and humanistic philosophy. 1, Nuremberg 2016, pp. 125–155.
  • A Heralded Educational Revolution; Educational reform projects in the revolutionary year 1848. In: Searching for traces; Journal of the history of adult education and science popularization. Volume 25, Vienna 2016, pp. 45–79. ISSN  1025-9244 .
  • “Of course there is a big difference between fantasizing and philosophizing!” The struggle for interpretive sovereignty over the knowledge of the natural sciences in Vienna in the second half of the 19th century. In: Studies on Viennese History. Yearbook of the Association for the History of the City of Vienna. Volume 72/73 (2016/2017), Vienna 2018, pp. 193–230.
  • Carl Bernhard Brühl: doctor, zootomist, popular educator, feminist. Studienverlag, Innsbruck 2019, ISBN 978-3-7065-5904-1 .

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Laudation on the occasion of the award of the City of Vienna Prize for Popular Education. Vienna on March 3, 2004.
  2. ↑ About the person: Anton Szanya ( Memento of the original from April 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Austrian Adult Education Center, accessed on April 5, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.vhs.at
  3. ↑ "Enlightenment & Criticism" magazine , Society for Critical Philosophy, accessed on April 5, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Szanya, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Mödling