Christa Hammerl

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Christa Hammerl (* 1957) is an Austrian historian and geographer with a focus on research into historical earthquakes , historical climate developments and natural disasters .

life and work

Christa Hammerl began her academic training in 1975 with a teaching degree for geography and history at the University of Vienna . From 1978 to 1981 she taught at a secondary school in Vienna. In 1981 she moved to the Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics (ZAMG).

Since 1986 Christa Hammerl has been researching historical earthquakes in Austria, Central Europe , the Alpine region and the Pannonian Basin at the Institute for Meteorology and Geophysics at the University of Vienna . In her dissertation , which she submitted in 1992, she dealt with the reconstruction of the earthquake of January 25, 1348 on the Dobratsch . In 1999 she switched to the Austrian Seismological Service at the Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics as a research assistant. Your area of ​​responsibility is the research of seismicity , earthquake history and seismic hazard assessment in Austria.

In addition, she is involved in national and international projects on the history of science and climate research. Christa Hammerl is a member of various interdisciplinary committees and international working groups. In the European Seismological Commission she is one of two chairs of the AG Historical Seismology .

On behalf of the Lower Austrian provincial government , she analyzed data on historical earthquakes in Lower Austria from 1000 up to 2010 in a four-year research project . a. at the Alpen-Adria-Universität , at the Institute for Economic and Social History and at the Institute for Geography and Regional Research at the University of Vienna in the field of natural disasters, regional geography and subject didactics.

In 2013 she received the recognition award of the state of Lower Austria for her achievements and merits in the field of research into historical earthquakes .

Publications (selection)

Christa Hammerl wrote - partly together with other authors - numerous standard works on earthquakes, natural disasters and climate history in Austria.

Books

  • Earthquake as a historical event - the reconstruction of the Lower Austrian earthquake of 1590 , 1987 (with Rolf Gutdeutsch, Ingeborg Meyer, Karl Vocelka)
  • The earthquake of January 25, 1348: Reconstruction of the natural event (dissertation University of Vienna), 1992
  • The Rauriser Sonnblick: from gold diggers, weather makers and other stories , 1994, 1997
  • Earthquake in Austria , 1997 (with Wolfgang Lenhardt)
  • The Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics. 150 years of meteorology and geophysics in Austria , 2001, (with Wolfgang Lenhardt, Reinhold Steinacker, Peter Steinhauser)
  • 40 years of the Commission for Air Quality Control - KRL 1962 - 2002 , 2005
  • Natural disasters: reception - coping - processing , 2009 (with Thomas Kolnberger, Eduard Fuchs)
  • The history of the Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics 1851 - 2001 , 2013
  • Earthquake in Lower Austria from AD 1000 to 2009 , 2013 (with Wolfgang Lenhardt)
  • Natural disasters: dramatic natural events from a cultural studies perspective , 2014
  • Powerful: extreme natural events , 2018 (with Peter Melichar and Erich Steiner)
  • BergWetter 1938: dictatorship, authorities, science: GBA and ZAMG in the shadow of National Socialism , 2018 (with Johannes Thaler, Gunnar Mertz, Oliver Rathkolb)

Articles, essays (selection)

  • For the reconstruction of the earthquakes in Wiener Neustadt (1768) and Leoben (1794) , 2000
  • Historical earthquakes in Carinthia with special consideration of the earthquake of May 4, 1201 , 2005
  • Cuidar dos vivos, enterrar os mortos (The Lisbon earthquake in 1755) , 2005
  • Natural Disasters Throughout History , 2009
  • Bacchus temperature reconstruction for the period 16th to 18th centuries from Viennese and Klosterneuburg grape harvest dates , 2009 (with Christian Maurer, Elisabeth Koch, Teresa Hammerl, Elfriede Pokorny)
  • Reconstruction of the historical earthquake of February 6, 1794 in Leoben , 2011
  • Extreme wine years since the 16th century and their relationship to the climate , 2011 (with Elisabeth Koch, Christian Maurer, Teresa Hammerl, Elfriede Pokorny)
  • Research on the strongest historical earthquakes in the central Inn Valley as part of the INTERREG IV project HAREIA , 2012 (with Wolfgang Lenhardt, Marcel Innerkofler)
  • Earthquake in Vienna , 2013

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 50 years of the Lower Austrian Science Prize. In: Province of Lower Austria . Retrieved January 29, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Historical earthquakes in general - ZAMG. Retrieved January 28, 2020 .
  3. ^ European Seismological Commission: Working Groups. Retrieved January 28, 2020 .
  4. ^ Working group on regional geography and subject didactics - Hammerl Christa. Retrieved January 28, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Christa Hammerl - Scientific Biography - Teaching - Institute for Geography and Regional Research. Retrieved January 28, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Science Prizes of the State of Lower Austria 2013. (pdf) 2013, accessed on January 28, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Hammerl, Christa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian historian and geographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1957