Friedrich Walter (historian, 1896)

Friedrich Walter (born August 18, 1896 in Vienna ; † May 30, 1968 there ) was an Austrian historian . He was an associate professor for modern history and historical auxiliary sciences at the University of Vienna .

Life

Walter was born in Vienna in 1896 as the son of a bookbinder and his wife. After graduating from the Academic Gymnasium in Vienna in 1914 , he did military service a. a. as an officer in the Feldjäger Battalion 21. From 1918 he studied history at the University of Vienna . In 1920 he was with Alfred Francis Přibram with the dissertation Archduke Stephan. 1817-1867 to Dr. phil. PhD. From 1921 to 1923 he completed the course at the Institute for Austrian Historical Research as an associate member (homework with Oswald Redlich ). As early as 1920 he became a scientific official in the State Archives of the Interior and Justice. In 1930 he moved to the Hofkammerarchiv. In 1945 he retired.

In 1955 he became a private lecturer in historical auxiliary sciences with special emphasis on archival and file studies at the University of Vienna. In 1956 his lectureship was expanded to include constitutional and administrative history. In 1959 he received the title of extraordinary professor (tit. Ao. Prof.) for modern history and historical auxiliary sciences at the University of Vienna. He was also a lecturer at the Institute for Austrian Historical Research, where he was in charge of archival and file studies as well as literacy and the constitutional and administrative history of Austria in modern times.

Walter was a member of the Vienna Catholic Academy from 1949 (he edited the special section of the Austria Sacra by Leo Santifaller ), from 1957 of the Commission for Modern History of Austria, from 1958 of the Southeast German Historical Commission and from 1961 of the Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . He was also a co-opted member of the Landscapes and Weistümer Commission of the Austrian Academy of Sciences .

Awards

• 1964: Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art, 1st class

Fonts (selection)

• (Selected): Maria Theresa : Certificates, letters, memoranda (= Die kleine Bücherei . 240). Albert Langen / Georg Müller, Munich 1942.
• The Austrian central administration . 5 volumes, Holzhausen, Vienna 1950 ff.
• Men around Maria Theresa . Holzhausen, Vienna 1951. (2nd version, 1959)
• The Theresian state reform of 1749 . Publishing house for history and politics, Vienna 1958. (License, Oldenbourg 1958)
• with Harold Steinacker : The question of nationalities in old Hungary and the south-east policy of Vienna (= book series of the South-East German Historical Commission . Vol. 3). Oldenbourg, Munich 1959.
• (Ed. And Eigel.): Carl Friedrich Frhr. Kübeck von Kübau : From the estate of Baron Carl Friedrich Kübeck von Kübau. Diaries, letters, files (1841–1855) (= publications of the Commission for Modern History of Austria . 45). Böhlau, Graz a. a. 1960.
• (Ed.): Magyar rebel letters 1848. All and private correspondence of the Magyar rebel government, its leaders and followers (= book series of the Southeast German Historical Commission . Vol. 13). Oldenbourg, Munich 1964.
• (Ed.): Maria Theresia: A selection of letters and files (= selected sources on German history of the modern age . Vol. 12). Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1968. (2nd edition, 1982)
• Adam Wandruszka (ed. From the estate): Austrian constitutional and administrative history from 1500–1955 (= publications of the Commission for Modern History of Austria . 59). Böhlau, Vienna a. a. 1972, ISBN 3-205-08562-0 .

literature

• Walter, Friedrich . In: Fritz Fellner , Doris A. Corradini: Austrian History in the 20th Century. A biographical-bibliographical lexicon (= publications of the Commission for Modern History of Austria. Vol. 99). Böhlau, Vienna et al. 2006, ISBN 978-3-205-77476-1 , p. 437.
• Walter Goldinger : Friedrich Walter (1896–1968) [obituary] . Communications from the Austrian State Archives 22 (1969), p. 542 f.
• Franz Huter : Friedrich Walter † . In: Mitteilungen des Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung 77 (1969) 1/2, pp. 242–248 (including a list of publications).

Web links

• Literature by and about Friedrich Walter in the catalog of the German National Library