Günther Hödl

Günther Hödl (born June 17, 1941 in Stockerau ; † August 11, 2005 in Klagenfurt am Wörthersee ) was an Austrian historian with a focus on the Middle Ages and multiple rector of the University of Klagenfurt .

Live and act

Born in Lower Austria, Günther Hödl studied history, German and theater studies at the University of Vienna . In 1964 he received his doctorate there with a thesis on Leopold I of Austria . In 1974 he completed his habilitation at the University of Salzburg with a study on Albrecht II von Habsburg and the award of the Venia legendi for medieval history and historical auxiliary sciences . In 1975 he was appointed associate professor for the history of the Middle Ages and historical auxiliary sciences at the University of Salzburg. In 1975 he was appointed full professor for the same subject areas at the University of Education . Already in Salzburg he was in charge of the historical series Österreichische Historische Bibliographie , in which 38 volumes and five CD-ROMs appeared up to his death. In addition, he was involved in several Carinthian state exhibitions as a research assistant and consultant , most recently in 2001 in the exhibition Schauplatz Mittelalter in Friesach .

Hödl was rector of the University of Klagenfurt (until 1993 "University for Educational Sciences") for three non-consecutive terms and thus also involved in university politics. In this function he was a member of the Austrian Rectors' Conference and temporarily also its deputy chairman (1988–1989). In his first tenure as rector from 1979 to 1983, he tried above all to consolidate the established courses of study and to open the university nationally and internationally. In his second period as rector from 1987 to 1989, there were initial plans for an extension to the university as well as a reorganization of the university into faculties, which was implemented in 1993. His third term of office from 2003 to 2005, during which he died, was characterized by the professional expansion of six technical chairs (2004) and further internationalization. In 2004 the university was given the addition of the Alpen-Adria- Universität Klagenfurt to its name . In spring 2005 Hödl was diagnosed with lung cancer. After his death, Vice Rector Martin Hitz took over the official business.

Hödl has been awarded numerous scientific honors and memberships for his research. He was an academic adviser to the Austrian National Library and a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts . He was awarded the Theodor Körner Prize (1968), the Great Silver Decoration of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria (1986), the Andrej Einplayer Prize (1990), the Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art 1st Class (1991) and the Premio Internazionale di Sala di Cultura de Luca (Belluno, Italy, 2001), the Alps-Adriatic Prize of the Alps-Adriatic Working Group for cross-regional cooperation in the fields of science and culture (2004).

Hödl had been married since 1964. The couple had a son and a daughter together and, at the time of Günther Hödl's death, four grandchildren.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

• Duke Leopold I of Austria (1290–1326) . phil. Dissertation University of Vienna 1964
• Albrecht II. Royalty, imperial government and imperial reform 1438–1439 . Böhlau Verlag, Vienna / Cologne / Graz 1978, ISBN 3-205-08716-X (partly also Habil. -schrift University of Salzburg 1974)
• Habsburg and Austria 1273–1493. Shape and shape of the Austrian late Middle Ages . Böhlau Verlag, Vienna / Cologne / Graz 1988, ISBN 3-205-05056-8
• To reform the state of the university for the better. From eight centuries of university history . Passagen Verlag, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-85165-101-4

Essays

• The Danube-Alps-Adriatic region in 1246. A snapshot . In: Franz Viktor Spechtler / Barbara Maier (eds.): I - Ulrich von Liechtenstein. Literature and Politics in the Middle Ages. (= Series of publications by the Friesach Academy, Volume 5) . Wieser Verlag, Klagenfurt 1999, ISBN 3-85129-266-9 , pp. 25-48
• The church of Salzburg in Carinthia in the Middle Ages . In: Karl Anderwald / Peter Karpf / Hellwig Valentin (ed.): Kärntner Jahrbuch für Politik 7 . Hermagoras Verlag, Klagenfurt 2000, pp. 154-173
• Historical perspectives in cultural studies . In: Kultursoziologie 2, Heft 2, 2003, pp. 39–54

literature

• Christian Domenig, Johannes Grabmayer, Reinhard Stauber, Karl Stuhlpfarrer and Markus Wenninger (eds.): “And if so, then bishop or abbot”. In memory of Günther Hödl (1941–2005). Kärntner Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Klagenfurt 2006, ISBN 978-3-85391-256-0 .
• Johannes Grabmeyer: Obituary Günther Hödl . Klagenfurt 2005 PDF
• University of Klagenfurt: Dr. Günther Hödl becomes rector of the University of Klagenfurt . Klagenfurt 2003 PDF

Web links

• Literature by and about Günther Hödl in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Günther Hödl  in the German Digital Library
• Publications by Günther Hödl in the Opac of the Regesta Imperii

Remarks

1. ^ ORF Carinthia, August 12, 2005
2. ↑ Cf. Christian Domenig u. a. (Ed.), “And if so, then bishop or abbot”. Klagenfurt 2006, p. 433 f.