Edith Saurer

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Edith Saurer (born August 20, 1942 in Vienna ; † April 5, 2011 ibid) was an Austrian historian , university professor at the University of Vienna , academic author and editor. She is considered the central co-founder and advocate of feminist history in Austria.

Life

From 1960 onwards, Saurer studied history, German literature and theater studies at the University of Vienna and in 1966 obtained a doctorate in philosophy. She received her doctorate with the thesis The political aspects of the appointment of bishops in the Habsburg Monarchy 1867–1903 and was a university assistant from 1970 to 1983. Saurer completed his habilitation in 1983 with the thesis Material Culture and Social Protest in Lombardy, Veneto, Lower Austria and Bohemia between Vormärz and Neo-absolutism and was then university lecturer and since 1992 professor of modern history at the Institute for History of the University of Vienna. She was visiting professor at the Universities of Bielefeld and Leipzig as well as at the Istituto Universitario Orientale in Naples and the European University Institute in Florence .

In 1990, Saurer was the initiator and co-founder of the specialist magazine L'Homme. European journal for feminist history , which has been her special commitment ever since, and was chairwoman of the commission of the inter-university coordination center for women's studies from 1993 to 2000 . She was co-editor of the journals Historical Anthropology and the Vienna Journal for the History of Modern Times . Since 2006, she has headed the research platform Relocating women's and gender history in a changed European context at the University of Vienna. Her main research interests were the history of material culture, women's and gender history , and religious history in the 18th and 19th centuries. Century, Historical Anthropology and the History of Italy in the 19th Century.

In 1991 Saurer was awarded the Käthe Leichter Prize , and in 1997 the Gabriele Possanner State Prize. In 2010 she received the Golden Decoration of Honor for Services to the State of Vienna . The Edith Saurer Fund, founded by her, has been awarding research grants since 2013.

Fonts (selection)

  • with Margareth Lanzinger (ed.): Inequality on the border. Historical and anthropological search for traces in the Alpine region: Tret and St. Felix. Edition Raetia, Bozen 2010, ISBN 978-88-7283-373-5 .
  • with Christian Aspalter, Wolfgang Müller-Funk , Wendelin Schmidt-Dengler , Anton Tantner (eds.): Paradoxien der Romantik. Society, culture and science in Vienna in the early 19th century. WUV, Vienna 2006, ISBN 978-3-85114-817-6 .
  • with Margareth Lanzinger, Elisabeth Frysak: Women's Movements Networks and Debates in post-communist Countries in the 19th and the 20th Centuries. Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-412-32205-9 .
  • with Margarete Grandner: gender, religion and commitment. The Jewish women's movements in German-speaking countries. Böhlau, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-412-32205-9 .
  • with Margarete Grandner (ed.): The Jewish women's movements in German-speaking countries. Böhlau, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-205-77259-8 .
  • with Christa Hämmerle (Ed.): Letter cultures and their gender. On the history of private correspondence from the 16th century to the present day. Böhlau, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-205-99398-5 .
  • with Heinrich Berger, Gerhard Botz (ed.): Otto Leichter. Letters without an answer. Notes from his exile in Paris 1938-1939. Böhlau, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-205-77051-X .
  • with Birgit Wagner (ed.): A wall in the Mediterranean. Debates about the status of the foreign from ancient times to the present. WUV-Facultas, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85114-670-0 .
  • with Waltraud Heindl (Ed.): Border and State. Passport system, citizenship, home law and immigration law in the Austrian monarchy (1750–1867). Böhlau, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-205-99199-0 .
  • Love and work. Gender Relations in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1997 (revised new edition: Böhlau, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-205-79535-3 , review ).
  • with Heide Dienst (Ed.): "Woman does not exist for herself." Gender relations in civil society. Publishing house for social criticism, Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-85115-123-2 .
  • Street, smuggling, lottery game. Material culture and state in Lower Austria, Bohemia, and Lombardy-Veneto in the early 19th century. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1989, ISBN 3-525-35626-9 .
  • with Gernot Heiss (Ed.): Willing Science. The University of Vienna 1938–1945. Publishing house for social criticism, Vienna 1989, ISBN 3-85115-107-0 .
  • Project Group Critical University History (Ed.): Reason as an Institution? History and future of the university. Vienna 1986, ISBN 3-85443-011-6 .
  • The political aspects of the Austrian episcopal appointments 1867–1903. Herold, Vienna 1968.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ diestandard.at: historian Edith Saurer died. April 6, 2011. Retrieved April 25, 2012.
  2. ↑ a b Obituary with detailed appreciation University of Vienna
  3. ↑ Research platform for the re-positioning of women's and gender history in the changed European context
  4. ↑ Edith Saurer Fund
personal data
SURNAME Saurer, Edith
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian historian
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH April 5, 2011
Place of death Vienna