Herbert Matis

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Herbert Matis (born May 22, 1941 in Vienna ) is a professor emeritus at the Vienna University of Economics and Business and former director of the Institute for Economic and Social History. He is a real member of the philosophical-historical class of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

Life

Herbert Matis received his doctorate in 1965 from the University of Vienna and completed his habilitation in 1971 at what was then the University of World Trade. From 1972 to 2009 he taught at the Vienna University of Economics as full professor for economic and social history . In 1988 Herbert Matis was elected a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), and in 1995 he was finally elected a full member.

Functions

Herbert Matis was or is:

  • 1975–1977 chairman of the department for humanities and social sciences of the professors' association
  • 1978–1982 chairman of the professors' association
  • 1984/1985 Rector of the Vienna University of Economics and Business and Vice-President of the Austrian Rectors' Conference
  • 1985–2000 head of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for economic and historical process analysis
  • 1986–1995 member of the Rectorate College
  • 1988–2000 member of the Board of Trustees of the Fund for the Promotion of Scientific Research (FWF)
  • 1994–2014 managing director of the Cardinal Innitzer Study Fund
  • 1997–2000 vice president of the FWF and department president for the humanities and social sciences
  • since 2001 member of the Jubilee Foundation of the City of Vienna for the Vienna University of Economics and Business
  • 2000–2006 Board member of the International Research Center for Cultural Studies (IFK)
  • 2003–2009 Vice President of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
  • 2004–2012 chairman of the commission for comparative media and communication research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
  • 2004–2010 co-opted board member of the Ludwig Boltzmann Society
  • 2010–2013 member of the public council of the ORF
  • 2013–2016 President of the Ignaz Lieben Society - Association for the Promotion of the History of Science

Fonts

One of Matis’s research focuses is company history. In addition, he devotes himself to comprehensive economic history topics, e.g. B. in the books

  • Hernan Cortes. Conqueror and colonizer. Musterschmidt Göttingen 1967
  • Austria's economy 1848-1913. Economic dynamics and social change in the age of Franz Joseph I , Duncker & Humblot Berlin 1972
  • The Austrian shilling. History of a currency (together with Karl Bachinger). Styria 1974
  • Birth of the modern age. From feudal system to market society (together with Leonhard Bauer ). dtv, Munich 1988
  • The industrial system. Economic Growth and Social Change in the 19th Century . Ueberreuter Vienna 1988
  • The world economy. Structure and development in the 20th century (together with Dieter Stiefel) Ueberreuter, 1991
  • "With the combined power of capital, credits and technology ..." 2 vols. (Together with Dieter Stiefel) Böhlau, Vienna 1994
  • The Economic Development of Austria since 1870 , in: Charles Feinstein, The Economic Development of Modern Europe since 1870, Elgar, 1994
  • The miracle machine. The never-ending story of data processing from the calculator clock to the Internet . Ueberreuter, Vienna 2002
  • The Schwarzenberg Bank. Capital formation and industrial financing in the Habsburg hereditary lands 1787-1830 . Academy d. Sciences, Vienna 2005
  • Development dimensions of capitalism (together with Karl Bachinger ). UTB, Stuttgart 2009

A commemorative publication was published for Matis' 60th birthday. On his 65th birthday, a selection of his articles on economic history appeared in an anthology.

Among other things, he is (co) editor of:

  • From the bliss of the state. State, economy and society in Austria in the age of enlightened absolutism . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1981
  • Austria and Czechoslovakia 1918 - 1938. Studies on economic history and economic policy (together with Alice Teichova) Böhlau, Vienna 1998
  • Business history. Scientific development trends and studies from Central Europe (together with Alice Teichova and Andreas Resch) Manz, Vienna 1999
  • Economic Change and the National Question in Twentieth-Century Europe (together with Alice Teichova and Jaroslav Pátek) Cambridge UP, 2000
  • Nation, State, and the Economy (together with Alice Teichova) Cambridge UP, 2003
  • Entrepreneuship in difficult times (together with Peter Eigner and Andreas Resch) Lit, Vienna-Berlin 2013
  • Economy, technology and the military 1914-1918. Austria-Hungary in World War I (together with Juliane Mikoletzky and Wolfgang Reiter) Lit, Vienna-Berlin 2014
  • Darwin in Central Europe. The scientific, ideological and popular reception in the 19th and early 20th centuries (together with Wolfgang Reiter) Lit, Vienna-Berlin 2018

Awards

Web links

Single receipts

  1. ^ The Ignaz-Lieben-Gesellschaft - Association for the Promotion of the History of Science , accessed on December 27, 2016.
  2. ↑ Karl Bachinger, Dieter Stiefel (ed.): On Heller and Cent. Contributions to financial and monetary history. Ueberreuter Wirtschaft, Vienna a. a. 2001 (640 pages)
  3. ↑ Charlotte Natmeßnig, Karl Bachinger (ed.): From early industrialization to the computer age. Böhlau, Vienna a. a. 2006 (330 pages)
  4. ↑ AAS 91 (1999), n.5, p. 1020. http://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/AAS-91-1999-ocr.pdf p.1020
  5. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
  6. ^ Decoration of honor for university professor Herbert Matis. Retrieved June 20, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Matis, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian economic historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna