Hubert Christian Ehalt

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Hubert Christian Ehalt (2010)

Hubert Christian Ehalt (born May 18, 1949 in Vienna ) is an Austrian historian and anthropologist . He is a private lecturer in modern social history at the University of Vienna , was a science officer for the City of Vienna and coordinator of the Vienna lectures until 2017 , is secretary general of five city science funding funds, president of the Society of Friends and honorary member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences , honorary professor at the university for Applied Arts Vienna and the Vienna University of Technology as well as holder of the professional title of university professor and the French knightly order Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres (German knight of the arts and literature).

Life

Hubert Christian Ehalt studied painting, history, art history, sociology, philosophy, psychology and education in Vienna (Dr. phil.) And qualified as a professor for modern social history at the University of Vienna . Since 1980 he has been a lecturer, university lecturer, university professor and visiting professor at Austrian universities.

1984–2017 he was science advisor for the City of Vienna. In this function he was responsible for the promotion of science and research , for the promotion of the knowledge and science city Vienna, for the knowledge transfer between the city of Vienna and the universities, technical colleges and research societies located in Vienna as well as for the networking and connection of scientific and urban ones Publicity. He is general secretary, board member and board member of six city science promotion funds and foundations and was the planner and coordinator of the Vienna lectures from 1987 to 2017 . In 2008, Wilhelm Filla recognized his work in the magazine Die Österreichische Volkshochschule as the best adult education center in the world .

At the beginning of November 2017 he was succeeded by Daniel Löcker as a science officer at Municipal Department 7 and as head of the lectures in Vienna.

In 1996 Ehalt was also entrusted with the management of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Historical Anthropology (since January 1, 2006 Institute for Historical Anthropology).

Research priorities

Ehalt's main research areas include a. in the areas of the social and mental history of Vienna in modern times with special consideration of the history of knowledge, education and science, culture, civilization and everyday history (18th - 20th centuries), the social history of the visual arts (17th –20th century with special consideration of Vienna), the history of the school (19th – 20th century with special consideration of the Austrian school history), the history of the life cycle.

Mediation

Hubert Christian Ehalt has been involved in education and communication work since 1969 - lectures, conception and management of workshops, seminars and conferences, excursions, intermedia events, guided tours, management of art trips, summer seminars, etc.

The series of events he founded include, in addition to the "Vienna Lectures", the "Vienna Quarter Tours", an event project by the City of Vienna for historical, ethnographic and literary exploration of Vienna against the grain of myths and clichés and the "Stadtwerkstatt" of the Administrative Academy of the City of Vienna - Events to network science and administration.

Another science communication project initiated by Ehalt is the Science Compass, Vienna's science program booklet.

Awards

Fonts

Ehalt has been the author and publisher of numerous publications in the field of social, historical and cultural studies since 1976, co-founder and partner of the scientific author publisher "Verlag für Gesellschaftskritik" (1980), founder of several book series, etc. a. "Culture Yearbook. Viennese Contributions to Cultural Studies and Cultural Policy ”(1982),“ Cultural Studies. Library of Cultural History ”together with Helmut Konrad (1984),“ Historical-Anthropological Studies ”(1996),“ Bibliotheca aurea ”(2001) as well as eight book series of the Vienna lectures.

  • Expressions of absolutist rule. The Viennese court in the 17th and 18th centuries (= social and economic historical studies , volume 14). Publishing house for history and politics, Vienna / Oldenbourg, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-7028-0153-7 / ISBN 3-486-42371-1 (Oldenbourg) (dissertation University of Vienna 1978, 256 pages).
  • Story from below. 1984.
  • Between nature and culture. To the criticism of biological approaches. 1985.
  • Viennese Beiseln. 1985.
  • Happy is the one who forgets ... The other Vienna around 1900. 1986.
  • The Vienna Danube Book. 1987.
  • Popular piety. 1989.
  • Cult and culture of exhibiting. 1992.
  • with Horst Eberhard Richter : On the epidemic of violence. 1995.
  • Staging of violence. 1996.
  • with Horst Eberhard Richter: beginning and end of egomania. 2004.
  • with Gerhard Botz , Eric Hobsbawm , Jürgen Kocka , Ernst Wangermann: History: Possibility for understanding and shaping the world. 2008.
  • with Eric J. Hobsbawm: Art and culture at the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century. 2008.
  • with Rolf Graber , Harm Klueting and Jean Mondot : Enlightenment and Modernity , 2008.
  • Criticism and Utopia. Positions & Perspectives , with Wilhelm Hopf and Konrad Paul Liessmann , 2009.
  • with Jean Mondot (ed.): What remained of Josephinism? On the occasion of Helmut Reinalter's 65th birthday , Innsbruck University Press, Innsbruck 2010.
  • with Friedrich Stadler , Edward Timms and Heidemarie Uhl : Schorskes Wien: A Reinvention , 2012.
  • with Konrad Paul Liessmann and Robert Pfaller : Art, Science and Economy in Discourse , 2013.
  • with Jürgen Habermas , Ulrich HJ Körtner and Peter Kampits : Biology and Biotechnology - Discourses on Optimizing Humans , 2014.
  • with Stéphane Gompertz, Kathrin Röggla: Courtesy today: between manners, correctness and respect , panel discussion on August 21 as part of the European Forum Alpbach (= Viennese lectures in the town hall , volume 175). Picus, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-85452-575-2 .
  • with Franz X. Eder and Suleika Mundschitz: Sex between liberation and new discipline (= Viennese lectures in the town hall , volume 181). Picus, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-7117-3001-5 .
  • with Konstanze Fliedl, Daniela Strigl : Ruth Klüger and Vienna (= Viennese lectures in the town hall , volume 182). Picus, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-7117-3002-2 .
  • Viennese knowledge. Developments, projects, impulses , = Encyclopedia of Viennese Knowledge , Volume XXV, Provincial Library, Weitra 2017, 288 pages, ISBN 978-3-99028-628-9

literature

  • Kürschner's German Scholar's Calendar
  • Hübner's who is who in Austria
  • Austrian history in the 20th century. A biographical-bibliographical lexicon, Fritz Fellner, Doris A. Corradini, Böhlau Verlag Vienna, Cologne, Weimar, 2006.
  • General artist lexicon, KGSaur-Verlag
  • Curriculum vitae and list of publications, in: Wien - Technik - Kultur. Exploring the relationship between technology, art and culture in Vienna, Peter Skalicky (ed.), Publication PN ° 1 Library of the Province, 2006.
  • Intellectual finds city, article in the Wiener Zeitung, October 13, 2007
  • Popular educator, publicist and ... educator, in: Die Furche , Im Portrait, by Claus Reitan, 26 August 2010.
  • Viennese ways of reason, article in the Wiener Zeitung , May 10, 2012.
  • Aleida Assmann , Jan Assmann , Oliver Rathkolb (eds.): History and justice. Festschrift for Hubert Christian Ehalt. Volume 14 of the series Austria. Research and science. Interdisciplinary , Lit-Verlag, Berlin, Münster, Vienna, Zurich, London 2019, ISBN 978-3-643-50943-7 , pages 345 to 382 with a list of Ehalt's courses in 40 years

Web links

Commons : Hubert Christian Ehalt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 20 Years of Vienna Lectures , Vol. 59, Issue No. 227, March 2008, pp. 6 to 9: [1]
  2. ^ Orf.at: Viennese lectures in a new guise . Article from January 9, 2018, accessed on January 9, 2018.
  3. ↑ 51 new members elected to the Academy. Hubert Christian Ehalt becomes honorary member / handover of the decrees in the solemn session on May 15, 2013 ( memento of December 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), Austrian Academy of Sciences, May 2, 2013.
  4. ↑ Hubert-Christian Ehalt receives 'Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres' , wien.at of February 11, 2015.
  5. ^ Board of Directors of the Vienna Academy Orchestra , accessed on August 12, 2016.
  6. ↑ Alpbach honor for Hubert Christian Ehalt , Kurier, August 27, 2015
  7. ↑ High federal award for Hubert Christian Ehalt , wien.at of December 16, 2015.
  8. ↑ Award: Great Decoration of Honor from the Vienna Medical Association to Christian Ehalt , APA OTS, July 11, 2016
  9. ↑ Hubert Christian Ehalt is an honorary citizen of the University of Vienna , wien.at from December 7, 2016.
  10. ↑ High honor for Hubert Christian Ehalt . OTS bulletin dated December 19, 2018, accessed December 19, 2018.
  11. ^ Leopold Rosenmayr : Intellectual finds city. A laudation to Hubert Christian Ehalt  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Wiener Zeitung of October 13, 2007.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.wienerzeitung.at  
personal data
SURNAME Ehalt, Hubert Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian historian and anthropologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna