Friedrich Gottas

Friedrich Gottas (born April 1, 1940 in Krompach ) is an Austrian historian .

Friedrich Gottas was born into a Carpathian German family. In 1958 she passed her school leaving examination in Vienna . He studied history, German and Russian at the University of Vienna . Gottas turned to Eastern and Southeastern European history early on. In 1964 he received his doctorate in Vienna. Since 1965 he was a university assistant at the University of Salzburg . In 1972/73 a study visit to Budapest took place in order to research Hungarian history. In 1977 he completed his habilitation with a study on the Tisza era (1875–1890). Gottas taught at the University of Salzburg from 1979 until his retirement in 2005 as professor for general history of the modern age with special emphasis on the area of ​​Eastern and Southeastern Europe.

From 1986 to 2000, Gottas was chairman of the Southeast German Historical Commission in Tübingen and in 1987 he became a full member of the Herder Research Council. His main research interests are the history of Protestantism in the Habsburg monarchy. The focus was on socio-historical issues relating to urbanization, poor relief and associations. Another focus is the history of the Germans in Southeast Europe. For his research, Gottas was awarded the Theodor Körner Foundation Fund for the Promotion of Science and Art (1973), the Sandoz Prize for special achievements in the humanities (1976), the Anton Gindely Prize for the History of the Danube Monarchy (1989) . Dietmar Neutatz is one of his students .

Fonts

• Hungary in the age of high liberalism. Studies on the Tisza era (1875–1890) . Vienna 1976, ISBN 3-7001-0166-X .
• The question of the Protestants in Hungary in the era of neo-absolutism. The Hungarian Protestant patent from September 1, 1859 . Munich 1965.

literature

• Reinhard R. Heinrisch: Friedrich Gotta's 60th birthday. In: Süddeutsches Archiv, Vol. XLII./XLIII. (1999/2000), pp. 159-161.