Johannes Dörflinger (historian)

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Johannes Dörflinger (born October 12, 1941 in Baden near Vienna ) is a retired Austrian historian and university professor at the University of Vienna .

Dörflinger studied history and geography at the University of Vienna. His most important teacher and mentor was Günther Hamann (1924–1994). In 1969 he received his doctorate with the dissertation The Northwest Passage Theories from 1731-1823 . He became a university assistant at the Historical Institute of the University of Vienna. There, in 1979, he also received his habilitation with The Austrian Cartography from the War of the Spanish Succession to the Vienna Congress. With special consideration of the private cartography between 1780 and 1820 . Dörflinger taught as a professor of modern history at the Institute for History at the University of Vienna. He specialized in the history of geographic discovery and the history of cartography . Dörflinger is Vice President of the International Coronelli Society for Globes and Instruments , a board member of the Austrian Society for the History of Science and a member of the Commission for the History of Natural Sciences, Mathematics and Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences .

Fonts (selection)

  • With Ingrid Kretschmer and Franz Wawrik: Austrian cartography. From the beginnings in the 15th century to the 21st century. Institute for Geography and Regional Research at the University of Vienna, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-85063-074-9 .
  • With Helga Hühnel: Atlantes Austriaci. Austrian atlases 1561-1918. Böhlau, Vienna 1995, Volume 1: Austrian Atlases 1561–1918. ISBN 3-205-98369-6 , Volume 2: Austrian Atlases 1919–1994. ISBN 3-205-98395-5 .
  • With Ingrid Kretschmer and Franz Wawrik: Lexicon for the history of cartography. From the beginning to the First World War. 2 volumes, Deuticke, Vienna 1986, ISBN 3-7005-4562-2 .
  • With Robert Wagner and Franz Wawrik: Descriptio Austriae. Austria and its neighbors on the map from late antiquity to the 19th century. Edition Tusch , Vienna 1977, ISBN 3-85063-074-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johannes Dörflinger on the website of the Institute for History of the University of Vienna

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personal data
SURNAME Dörflinger, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Baden near Vienna