Horst Haselsteiner
Horst J. Haselsteiner (born April 3, 1942 in Belgrade ; † March 3, 2019 ) was an Austrian historian of Eastern Europe .
Life
Horst Haselsteiner, son of a Viennese and a Hungarian woman from Szabadka , came with his mother to Vienna in 1947 due to the war, where his father also came after being a prisoner of war. After graduating from the school brothers' high school in Strebersdorf , he first studied law at the University of Vienna from 1960 , later history, Slavic and German studies. In 1967 he became a research assistant at the Institute for Eastern European History at the University of Vienna. In 1970 he received his doctorate with the dissertation on "The Serbs and the Compromise of 1867. On the political and constitutional position of the Serbs in southern Hungary in the years 1860-1867". He worked as a university assistant with Richard Georg Plaschka and Arnold Suppan (1970–1981) and, after completing his habilitation, wrote “Joseph II and the counties of Hungary. Rule of Law and Estates Constitutionalism ”worked as a university lecturer for Eastern European history (1981–1988) at the University of Vienna.
In 1988 he was appointed to the full professorship for Southeast European History at the University of Graz . In 1993 he followed Richard Georg Plaschka as full professor and head of the Institute for Eastern European History at the University of Vienna. From 2001 to 2003 he was also the founding dean of the Andrássy University in Budapest and until 2005 Professor of History and Cultural Anthropology at the Faculty of Central European Studies. In 2010 he retired.
Haselsteiner was a member of the executive committee of Aktion Österreich-Hungary , the representative of the Austrian Rectors 'Conference for the Danube Rectors' Conference and a member of the board of the Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe . He was also a board member of the Pro Oriente Foundation , an Austrian working group of Christian churches with the aim of promoting relations between the Roman Catholic Church and the Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox churches. In 1993 Haselsteiner was appointed a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences . This was followed by the award of honorary membership of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences , acceptance as a member of the Sudeten German Academy of Sciences and Arts and the appointment as an honorary member of the Bosnian-Herzegovinian Academy of Sciences . He was also elected President of the Commission internationale des études historiques slaves . He was visiting professor at the University of Friborg and the University of Seattle / USA. He worked closely with the universities in Budapest, Pécs, Szeged and Debrecen as well as universities and academies in Zagreb, Belgrade and Sarajevo.
For his work he was awarded the Great Silver Medal for Services to the Republic of Austria and the Commander's Cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit, as well as numerous other awards such as the Anton Gindely Prize , the Cardinal Innitzer Prize , the Karl von Vogelsang State Prize for the History of Social Sciences and the Ferenc Deák State Prize for the Humanities from the Pro Hungaria Budapest Foundation.
Since his studies he was a member of the Catholic student association K.Ö.HV Amelungia, the K.Ö.L. Maximiliana and the KaJ St. Hubertus. Horst Haselsteiner was involved in numerous social projects in the Holy Land . In 1995 he was appointed Knight of the Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher by Cardinal Grand Master Giuseppe Caprio and invested in the Papal Lay Order by Abbot Alois Stöger , Grand Prior of the Austrian Lieutenancy .
Web links
- Literature by and about Horst Haselsteiner in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Horst Haselsteiner in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Part of Mayor Prof. Dr. Horst Haselsteiner. Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem, March 19, 2019, accessed on March 19, 2019 .
- ↑ a b c Arnold Suppan: Em. O. Univ.Prof. Dr. HORST HASELSTEINER (1942-2019). University of Vienna, March 19, 2019, accessed on March 19, 2019 .
- ^ Mourning for Horst Haselsteiner. Andrássy University Budapest, March 6, 2019, accessed March 19, 2019 .
- ↑ Horst Haselsteiner's curriculum vitae. K.Ö.HV Amelungia, March 19, 2019, accessed on March 19, 2019 .
1. General history of the Middle Ages and historical auxiliary sciences: Julius Franz Borgias Schneller (1806–1823) | Leopold Hassler (1825–1851) | Johann Baptist von Weiß (1854–1890) | Arnold Busson (1891-1892) | Johann Loserth (1893–1917) | Wilhelm Erben (1917–1933) | Walther Kienast (1939–1945) | Heinrich Appelt (1959–1963) | Friedrich Hausmann (1964–1988) | Reinhard Härtel (1988–2011) | Romedio Schmitz-Esser (since 2017)
2. Austrian History and Central Europe: Franz Krones von Marchland (1865–1902) | Karl Uhlirz (1903–1914) | Raimund Friedrich Kaindl (1915–1930) | Anton Mell (1931–1935) | Hugo Hantsch (1935–1939) | Hans Pirchegger (1939–1945) | Hugo Hantsch (1945–1946) | Hermann Wiesflecker (1961–1984) | Moritz Csáky (1984-2004) | Walter Höflechner (2004–2012) | vacant (since 2012)
3. History of the Early Modern Age: Adam Wolf (1867–1883) | Hans von Zwiedineck-Südhorst (1899–1906) | Heinrich von Srbik (1917–1922) | Kurt Kaser (1924–1931) | Ferdinand Bilger (1939–1945) | Karl Eder (1946–1961) | Alexander Novotny (1963-1976) | Grete Walter-Klingenstein (1976–1998) | Alfred Ableitinger (1998-2004) | Gabriele Haug-Moritz (since 2004)
4. Economic and social history: Othmar Pickl (1969–1995) | Renate Pieper (since 1998)
5. Southeast European history and anthropology: Ferdinand Hauptmann (1969–1986) | Horst Haselsteiner (1986-1993) | Karl Kaser (since 1996)
6. General contemporary history: Helmut Konrad (1984–2016) | Barbara Stelzl-Marx (since 2019) | Christiane Berth (since 2020)
7. History of Science: Simone De Angelis (since 2011)
8. Subject didactics of history, social studies and political education: Alois Ecker (2017–2020) | Christian Heuer (since 2020)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Haselsteiner, Horst |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Haselsteiner, Horst J. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian historian of Eastern Europe |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 3, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Belgrade |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd March 2019 |