Brigitte Mazohl

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Brigitte Mazohl (born July 2, 1947 in Bozen ) is an Austrian historian.

Until her retirement in 2015, she was full professor of Austrian history at the Institute for History and European Ethnology at the University of Innsbruck and has been President of the phil.-hist since July 1, 2013. Class at the Austrian Academy of Sciences .

Life

Brigitte Mazohl studied history and journalism at the University of Salzburg and received her doctorate in 1971 under Erika Weinzierl on the subject of "The Autonomy Aspirations in Trentino 1848/49". Research stays at the Austrian Cultural Institute in Rome, at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna (where he also studied law) and in Mainz (Institute for European History). After assistantships at the University of Salzburg and at the Institute for European History in Mainz, she became assistant to Fritz Fellner in 1980 at the Institute for History at the University of Salzburg . After her habilitation (1986) on the subject of “Austrian administrative state and administrative elites in the Kingdom of Lombardo-Venetia 1815–1859”, she went on to do research in Venice and Florence as well as visiting professorships at the universities of Innsbruck and Klagenfurt .

In 1993 she was appointed professor for Austrian history at the University of Innsbruck, where she taught from 1993 to 2015 and held numerous management positions, including a. the head of the institute (1996–1998 and 2005–2013) and between 2012 and 2015 the (deputy) head of the research focus “Cultural Encounters - Cultural Conflicts”.

At the Fund for the Promotion of Scientific Research she held the function of a scientific advisor from 2003-2008, at the Austrian Academy of Sciences she was elected a corresponding member in 2004 and a full member in 2008, and in 2013 she was elected president of phil-hist. Class. She took over the chairmanship of the Commission for Modern History of Austria in 2008. Since 2004 she has been Innsbruck's spokeswoman for the International Graduate School “Political Communication from Antiquity to the Present”.

Research priorities

Her main research interests are in the context of Austrian, German and Italian history between the 18th century and the First World War; they concern questions of law, administration and politics, of rule and communication, the history of education and science as well as gender research.

Awards

Publications

  • (with Rolf Steininger and Alexander Piff): History of South Tyrol. CH Beck, Munich 2020. ISBN 978-3-406-73412-0 .
  • The turn of the century 1806. The Holy Roman Empire and the birth of modern Europe , Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2005, 299 pp.
  • Minoranze negli imperi. Popoli fra identità nazionale e ideologia imperiale , ed. by Brigitte Mazohl and Paolo Pombeni, Bologna 2013 (Collana "Quaderni Numero 88 dell'Istituto storico italo-germanico in Trento"), 470 pp.
  • National history as an artifact. On the paradigm “nation state” in the historiographies of Germany, Italy and Austria , ed. by Hans Peter Hye, Brigitte Mazohl, Jan Paul Niederkorn, Vienna 2009, 364 pp.
  • Gli imperi dopo l'Impero nell'Europa del XIX secolo , ed. by Marco Bellabarba, Brigitte Mazohl, Reinhard Stauber , Marcello Verga, Bologna, 2009, 576 p. (Collana "Quaderni dell'Istituto storico italo-germanico in Trento")
  • Austrian Italy - Italian Austria? Intercultural similarities and national differences from the 18th century to the end of the First World War , ed. by Brigitte Mazohl-Wallnig and Marco Meriggi (Central European Studies 5), Vienna 1999, 818 pp.
  • Austrian administrative state and administrative elites in the Kingdom of Lombardo-Venetia 1815-1859 (publications of the Institute for European History in Mainz, vol. 146), Mainz 1993, 458 pp.
  • Experience - remember - preserve. EEB. Series of publications by the Center for Remembrance Culture and Historical Research. Volumes 1 - 4, ed. by Gunda Barth-Scalmani, Hermann JW Kuprian, Brigitte Mazohl (2012–2014)
  • Publications on Political Communication. Volumes 1–19: ed. by Angela De Benedictis, Gustavo Corni , Brigitte Mazohl and Luise Schorn-Schütte , Göttingen (2008-2014)
  • Studi sulla comunicazione politica. Volumes 1–6, ed. by Angela De Benedictis, Gustavo Corni, Brigitte Mazohl, Daniela Rando , Luise Schorn-Schuette, Bologna (2012–2014)
  • L'Homme. Journal for Feminist History 1990 ff. (Co-editor until 2003)
  • Innsbruck Historical Studies (co-editor since 2006)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ University of Innsbruck: Cross of Honor for Historian Mazohl . Article dated December 22, 2017, accessed December 22, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Mazohl, Brigitte
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mazohl-Wallnig, Brigitte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Bolzano , Italy