Friedrich Edelmayer

Friedrich Edelmayer (born October 26, 1959 in Steyr ) is an Austrian historian and associate professor at the University of Vienna .

Life

education and study

Edelmayer attended elementary school between 1966 and 1978 as well as the humanistic branch of the public collegiate high school of the Benedictines in Seitenstetten (Lower Austria). He then studied history and historical subjects at the University of Vienna from 1978 and completed a language course at the Universidad de Santander in the 1980 summer semester and from October 1980 to June 1983 the course at the Institute for Austrian Historical Research in Vienna. In the summer of 1981 he received a scholarship from the Ministerio del Interior in Madrid and from October 1980 to June 1983 a scholarship at the Institute for Austrian Historical Research. In October 1982 he completed his undergraduate studies with a graduation as Magister philosophiae (Mag. Phil.) At the University of Vienna, followed by the state examination at the Institute for Austrian Historical Research in May / June 1983. For this he was subsequently awarded the academic degree Master of Advanced Studies (MAS) in the field of historical research and archival studies in March 2001. In the summer of 1984 Edelmayer received a scholarship from the Federal Ministry of Science and Research in Spain, where he was funded for archival studies at the Archivo General de Simancas, and in November 1985 he received a scholarship from the Czech Academy of Sciences for archival studies in Brno. Edelmayer received his doctorate in June 1986 as Doctor philosophiae (Dr. phil.) At the University of Vienna. Further scholarships took him to the Institute for European History in Mainz in 1987 and to the University of Hamburg in 1997. In June 1998 he was granted the license to teach “Modern History” at the University of Vienna.

Scientific career

Edelmayer worked between July 1983 and October 1992 as a research assistant at the historical commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in Munich. In the academic years 1988/89 to 1997/98 he was lecturer for modern history at the University of Vienna and from 1988 onwards, together with Alfred Kohler and since 1997 alone, headed the project “Edition of the correspondence of the emperors with their envoys in Spain”. Between October 1989 and May 1990 he did his community service in the documentation archive of the Austrian Resistance , after which he did research in Spain for a total of four years from 1990. Between November 1992 and June 1998 he worked as a university assistant at the Institute for History at the University of Vienna, from June 1998 to September 1998 he was a university professor for modern history at the University of Vienna and on October 1, 1998 he became an associate professor for modern history at the University of Vienna .

Edelmayer held visiting professorships for German literacy and modern legal and constitutional history at the University of Ljubljana in the summer semesters 1993 and 1995 and a visiting professorship for modern history at the University of Alicante in the 1998 summer semester. He was also visiting professor for modern history at the University of Sassari in the summer semester 2001/02, visiting professor for modern history at the university Alcalá de Henares in the academic year 2001/02 and from winter semester 2003/04 to winter semester 2004/05 visiting professor for modern history at the University of Innsbruck. In the summer semester 2005 he was a visiting professor for modern history at the University of Pablo de Olavide, in the academic year 2006/07 he was visiting professor for modern history at the University of Pablo de Olavide. In 2008 he was visiting professor of global history at Macquarie University in Sydney. In 2010 he was also visiting professor at the Universities of Córdoba and Granada, 2011 visiting professor in Granada and Salamanca and again visiting professor in Sydney in 2012 and in Alcalá de Henares in 2014.

Edelmayer was entrusted with the implementation of Acciones Integradas with the University of Salamanca and was the coordinator of various Erasmus / Socrates programs. He has also been the supervisor of the archive of the Institute for History at the University of Vienna since 1994 and has also been a lecturer at the Institute for International Development at the University of Vienna since 2011. Between 1999 and 2003 he headed the research project "Imperial Finances in the Second Half of the 16th Century" and has been a member of the consortium of the European Union-funded Erasmus Mundus Program: Global Studies (EMGS) since 2009. Furthermore, he headed the research project "Apocalyptic Motifs in the Reformation" from 2009 to 2012 and is head of the research project "Imperial Ambassadresses between the Courts of Madrid and Vienna (1650–1700): Diplomacy, Sociability and Culture" from 2014 to 2016.

Edelmayer was a member of the institute conference of the Institute for History, member of the history study commission, member of the faculty board at the humanities faculty, deputy chairman of the study commission history, executive dean of studies for history, deputy curia spokesman in the faculty college of the humanities faculty, curia spokesman in the faculty of the humanities faculty of the Personnel Committee of the Humanities and Cultural Studies Faculty as well as Head of the History Studies Program at the University of Vienna and member of the Faculty Board of the Historical and Cultural Studies Faculty.

His research focuses on Spanish, Ibero-American and Italian history as well as imperial history, global history, insular studies, the history of diplomacy, nobility research and the history of the Habsburg monarchy.

Editing and collaboration in magazines / series

• "Studies on the history and culture of the Iberian and Ibero-American countries / Estudios sobre Historia y Cultura de los Países Ibéricos e Iberoamericanos" since 1993 (together with Alfred Kohler and José Carlos Rueda Fernández)
• Co-editor of the publication series “Cross sections. Introductory texts on social, economic and cultural history ”, Vienna-Munich, since 1999
• Co-editor of the publication series "Edition Weltregionen", Vienna, since 2000
• Editor of the series of publications “Storia goriziana e regional. Collana di studi e documenti “, Mariano del Friuli-Gorizia (together with Silvano Cavazza and Giuseppe Trebbi), since 2001
• Scientific advisory board of the journal “Investigaciones Históricas, época moderna y contemporánea”, Universidad de Valladolid, since 2001
• Scientific advisory board of the publication series “Raccolta di documenti editi e inediti per la Storia della Sardegna”, Università di Sassari, since 2003
• Scientific advisory board of the journal “Chronica Nova. Revista de Historia Moderna de la Universidad de Granada ”, since 2004
• Scientific advisory board of the publication series “Studi di Storia. Collana del Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche e Geografiche “Carlo M. Cipolla” dell'Università degli Studi di Pavia “, Milano, since 2005
• Co-editor of "Innsbrucker Historische Studien", University of Innsbruck, since 2006
• Scientific advisory board of the magazine “Estudis. Revista de Historia Moderna “of the Universitat de València, since 2007
• Scientific advisory board of the journal "Studia Historica: Historia Moderna" of the Universidad de Salamanca and the Fundación Española de Historia Moderna, since 2008
• Scientific advisory board of the publication series of the Società Ligure di Storia Patria (Atti, Notai Liguri dei secoli XII-XV, Fonti per la storia della Liguria) in Genoa, since 2009
• Co-editor of the publication series “Basic Texts Economic and Social History”, Vienna, since 2009
• Collaborator in the research project “Confesionalización y protonacionalismo en la Monarquía Hispánica. Estudio a través de las Órdenes Militares caballerescas, la Orden Tercera franciscana y la Universidad de Alcalá ”at the Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, since 2009
• Scientific advisory board of the “Diccionario Biográfico 1650–1750”, published at the Universidad de Córdoba, since 2009, see: http://biografias1650-1750.org/index.php
• Co-editor of the publication series “Globalgeschichte und Entwicklungspolitik”, Vienna, since 2010
• Scientific advisory board of the journal “Bolletí de la Societat Arqueològica Lul·liana: Revista d'estudis històrics”, Palma de Mallorca, since 2012
• Scientific advisory board of the magazine “Magallánica. Revista de Historia Moderna “, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Argentina, since 2014

Awards

• Spanish Order for Civil Merit (Orden del mérito civil) 1999

Web links

• Biography of Friedrich Edelmayer on the website of the University of Vienna
• Publications by Friedrich Edelmayer in the Opac of the Regesta Imperii