Herbert Knittler

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Herbert Knittler (born May 7, 1942 in Brünn / Brno, Moravia ) is an Austrian economic and social historian who was full professor at the University of Vienna from 1979 to 2003 . His research focuses on the Austrian and European urban history of the Middle Ages and early modern times, the agricultural history of Austria and the social history of architecture. He also dealt intensively with the history of the Lower Austrian Waldviertel and his hometown Weitra .

Life

Knittler's father died at the front in 1944. As a result of the political circumstances, he and his mother were evacuated from what was then Czechoslovakia a year later. He spent his childhood and youth in Weitra, Lower Austria . After passing his Matura with distinction in 1961, he enrolled at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Vienna and obtained his doctorate in 1966 in the subject of economic and social history in connection with art history. phil.

His professional career began in 1966 as a scientific employee of the Commission for Economic, Social and Urban History of the Austrian Academy of Sciences , where he was entrusted with editing the Austrian town book.

After completing his military service with the Austrian Armed Forces , he became an assistant at the Institute for Economic and Social History at the University of Vienna in 1971, and after his habilitation in 1974, he became senior assistant and university lecturer. In 1979 he was appointed professor of economic and social history, as he was until his retirement in 2003.

Dealing with the topic of urban history on a national and international level was then the focus of research and teaching. This also resulted in larger research projects, for example on the problem areas of city budgets in the early modern period and taxation of the city curia in the Austrian states. A project on aristocratic economic management 1500–1700 formed the basis for the Lower Austrian provincial exhibition "Aristocracy in Transition" ( Schloss Rosenburg , 1990), which he curated .

From 1995 to 2004, he also held the position of chairman of the Austrian Society for Medieval Archeology, which resulted in intensive relationships on various topics of material culture. His interest in the history of glass production can also be seen in this context. His private molded glass collection was made available to the public in 2016 with the publication of a catalog.

Awards

  • 1985: Decoration of honor of the city of Weitra in gold
  • 1996: Science Award of the State of Lower Austria
  • 2005: Gold Medal for Services to the State of Vienna
  • 2005: Silver Commander's Cross of Honor for Services to the State of Lower Austria

Publications (selection)

  • Rule structure and class formation 2. Cities and markets (= social and economic historical studies [4] = études présentées à la Commission internationale pour l'Histoire des Assemblées d'Etats 44), Vienna-Munich 1973.
  • The legal sources of the city of Weitra (= Fontes rerum Austriacarum III / 4) , Vienna-Cologne-Graz 1975.
  • Benefits, pensions, income. Structure and development of early modern feudal incomes in Lower Austria. With a contribution by Werner Berthold (= Social and Economic History Studies 19), Vienna-Munich 1989.
  • The European city in the early modern era. Institutions, structures, developments (= cross sections 4), Vienna-Munich 2000 (e-book reprint March 2015)
  • About life in the country. The invoices of Messrs. Von Puchheim auf Horn and Göllersdorf 1444-1468 (= studies and research from the Lower Austrian Institute for Regional Studies 41), St. Pölten 2005.
  • Bauen in der Kleinstadt, [1], 2 (= Medium Aevum Quotidianum SoBd. XV, XXI), Krems 2005, 2008.
  • As editor: Economic history of the Waldviertel (= series of publications by the Waldviertler Heimatbund 47), Horn-Waidhofen / Thaya 2006.
  • As editor: Minor cities - Kümmerformen - Gefreite Dörfer. Levels of urbanity and the market problem (= contributions to the history of the cities of Central Europe 20), Linz 2006.
  • Clarity and diversity. Austrian shaped glass from three centuries. Knittler Collection , 2016
  • Clarity and diversity. Austrian shaped glass from three centuries. Knittler Collection - Supplements and New Acquisitions , 2018

literature

  • Fritz Fellner - Doris A. Corradini, Austrian History in the 20th Century. A biographical-bibliographical lexicon (= publication by the Commission for the Modern History of Austria 99), Vienna-Cologne-Weimar 2006, p. 224.
  • Hannes Stekl, Herbert Knittler on his 68th birthday , in: Markus Cerman - Erich Landsteiner (ed.), Economic entanglements of rural areas in Europe 1300–1600 (= Yearbook for the History of Rural Areas 2009), Innsbruck-Vienna-Bozen 2009 , Pp. 161-187. (with bibliography 188–196)
  • Hannes Stekl. Herbert Knittler - 70 years old , in: Das Waldviertel, Volume 61, 02/2012, 99–110.

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