Johann Mayr (social scientist)
Johann Mayr (born December 15, 1946 in Linz ) is an Austrian historian, Germanist and lawyer as well as a university professor.
Life
Mayr was born as the son of the ÖBB official Johann and the housewife Ida Maria Mayr. After attending compulsory school from 1953 to 1961, he learned the profession of gas and water pipe installer, in which he worked until 1972. In 1975 an apprenticeship as an iron bender followed.
In addition to this professional activity, he graduated from the Federal High School for Working People in Linz from 1968 to 1972 and then studied until 1977 (graduation in February 1978) the teaching post for secondary schools in German and history in Salzburg .
From 1978 to 1985 he was an AHS teacher and during this time studied law in Linz (graduation in 1982) and economic history in Salzburg (doctorate in 1984). He then moved to the Federal Ministry for Science and Research as a research assistant at the Museum of the Industrial World of Work in Steyr until the end of 1989.
From 1990, following an offer from Karl Grünner , he was his press officer and legal advisor and after Grünner left the company in the same functions for the Upper Austrian Friends of Nature until 1995.
He then worked full-time as an editor and author of scientific and popular science publications and essays and was a freelance editor in the culture and science department at ORF Upper Austria and in the same position for several newspapers.
From 1997 to 2012 he was professor for media theory, media sociology and media history as well as the basics of philosophy, sociology and psychology at the university of applied sciences course media technology and design in Hagenberg.
From 1997 until it was hired in 2005, he was editor-in-chief of the Upper Austrian University of Applied Sciences newspaper FHS / Beton.
Mayr has been retired since 2013.
Awards
In 1988 Mayr was awarded the Silver Merit of the State of Upper Austria by the Upper Austrian Governor Josef Ratzenböck for his work for the Museum Industrielle Arbeitswelt .
In 2012 Johann Mayr received the Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art 1st Class from Federal President Heinz Fischer .
Fonts (selection)
- Suffered in bondage, fought for freedom. The history of the SPÖ farmers in Upper Austria. Institute for Science and Art Upper Austria, Linz 1989, ISBN 3-900840-02-4 .
- Regional connections between main areas of resistance at the time of the Counter Reformation and the July battles in Upper Austria in 1934. In: Contemporary History . 9th vol. 11/12, 1982, pp. 392-407
- New beginnings in tertiary education. Festschrift 15 years of Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences. Wels, 2009. ISBN 390040156X
- Social democracy and agricultural policy: From the beginnings to 1918 , Linz, 1986. ISBN 3900581061
Web links
- Literature by and about Johann Mayr in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mayr, Johann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian sociologist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 15, 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Linz |