Helmut Rumpler

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Helmut Rumpler (born September 12, 1935 in Vienna ; † February 10, 2018 in Klagenfurt ) was an Austrian historian .

Helmut Rumpler completed a teaching degree and doctoral degree in history and German studies at the University of Vienna and began teaching in 1961. From that year on, Rumpler also acted as secretary of the Commission for the History of the Habsburg Monarchy at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and from 1963 as an assistant at the Historical Institute of the University of Vienna. Since 1975 Rumpler was a full professor for modern and Austrian history at the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt (formerly: University of Educational Sciences). Since 1993 he was an external corresponding member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Ljubljana and from 1995 a full member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Rumpler retired in 2003, but was still chairman of the Commission for the History of the Habsburg Monarchy at the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

His main research interests were the history of the Habsburg Monarchy and Austria in the 19th and 20th centuries, the constitutional history and nationality problems of Austria-Hungary, and economic and cultural aspects of the history of the Alps-Adriatic region, with a special focus on Carinthia and Slovenia . He was awarded the Cardinal Innitzer Prize for the Humanities in 1973 and the Karl von Vogelsang State Prize for the History of Social Sciences in 1990.

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Monographs

  • The Manifesto of Emperor Charles of October 16, 1918. Last attempt to save the Habsburg Empire. Oldenbourg, Munich 1966.
  • The German policy of Baron von Beust from 1848 to 1850. On the problem of central government reform policy in the age of the Paulskirche. Böhlau, Vienna, Cologne, Graz 1972, ISBN 3-205-08561-2 .
  • Austrian history. Part: 1804-1918. An opportunity for Central Europe. Civil emancipation and state collapse in the Habsburg monarchy. Ueberreutter, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-8000-3530-8 .

Editorships

  • with Adam Wandruszka and Peter Urbanitsch : The Habsburg Monarchy 1848–1918. On behalf of the Commission for the History of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (1848–1918). Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1973–2018.
  • The “two-tier” 1879. The German-Austrian-Hungarian alliance and European diplomacy. Historians' talk Austria-Federal Republic of Germany 1994. On behalf of the “Austria and Germany” committee of the Historical Commission and the Austrian Research Foundation, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-7001-2551-8 .

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SURNAME Rumpler, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH February 10, 2018
Place of death Klagenfurt