Johannes Feichtinger

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Johannes Feichtinger (* 1967 in Hartberg , Styria ) is an Austrian historian and cultural scientist at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the University of Vienna .

Life

Johannes Feichtinger studied history, German studies and media at the University of Graz from 1985 to 1992 . In 1999 he received his doctorate with a thesis on academic emigration, which was published in 2001 under the title Science Between Cultures. Austrian University Lecturers in Emigration 1933–1945 was published. In 2011 Feichtinger completed his habilitation at the University of Vienna for the subject of Modern History with the monograph Science as a reflective project. From Bolzano to Freud to Kelsen. Austrian history of science 1848–1938 . From 1992 to 2004 Feichtinger was a research assistant in various FWF funded research projects at the University of Graz and in Cambridge, UK. From 1999 to 2000 he taught Modern History at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Between 2000 and 2004 he was a historian at the transdisciplinary collaborative research center on modernism. Active in Vienna and Central Europe around 1900 . In 2004 he joined the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) in Vienna as a research assistant . Feichtinger is Senior Research Associate at the ÖAW, member of various ÖAW commissions, and he teaches modern history, the history of science and knowledge, most recently as a substitute professor at the University of Vienna.

Research priorities

In his research Feichtinger pursues a cultural-scientific, transdisciplinary approach. In his work he takes into account both regional and global historical perspectives. His focus is on:

  • History of science and knowledge
  • History of Central Europe in a global context
  • Postcolonial theory, memory and cultural history

Fonts (selection)

As an author:

  • Science between cultures. Austrian university professors in emigration 1933–1945. Frankfurt am Main / New York 2001 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  • Science as a reflective project. From Bolzano to Freud to Kelsen. Austrian history of science 1848–1938. Bielefeld 2010 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).

As editor:

  • with Ursula Prutsch , Moritz Csáky : Habsburg Postcolonial. Power structures and collective memory. Innsbruck / Vienna / Munich 2003 (Memory - Memory - Identity 2) ( Open Access ).
  • with Moritz Csáky: Europe - united by values? The European debate on values ​​put to the test of history. Bielefeld 2007 ( Open Access ).
  • with Johann Heiss: Historical Politics and »Siege of the Turks«. Vienna 2013 (Critical Studies on the »Siege of the Turks« 1).
  • with Johann Heiss: The remembered enemy. Vienna 2013 (Critical Studies on the »Siege of the Turks« 2).
  • with James Hodkinson, John Walker, Shaswati Mazumdar: Deploying Orientalism in Culture and History. From Germany to Central and Eastern Europe. Rochester, New York 2013 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  • with Herbert Matis , Stefan Sienell, Heidemarie Uhl : The Academy of Sciences in Vienna 1938 to 1945. Vienna 2014 ( Open Access ).
  • with Gary B. Cohen: Understanding Multiculturalism. The Habsburg Central European Experience. Oxford / New York 2014 [paperback edition Oxford / New York 2017] (Austrian and Habsburg Studies 17) ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  • with Heidemarie Uhl : Rethinking Habsburg: Diversity and Ambivalence in Central Europe. 30 key words in cultural studies. Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2016.
  • with Klaus Taschwer , Stefan Sienell, Heidemarie Uhl : Experimental biology in the Vienna Prater. On the history of the biological research institute 1902–1945. Vienna 2016 ( online ).
  • with Franz L. Fillafer and Jan Surman: The Worlds of Positivism. A Global Intellectual History, 1770-1930. New York 2018 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  • with Heidemarie Uhl : The Academies of Sciences in Central Europe during the Cold War. Transformation processes in the field of tension between demarcation and rapprochement. Vienna 2018 (Austrian Academy of Sciences. Meeting reports of the phil. Hist. Class, 890th volume) ( Open Access )
  • with Marianne Klemun , Petra Svatek and Jan Surman: Changes and breaks. History of Science as Political History. Göttingen 2018.
  • with Anil Bhatti and Cornelia Hülmbauer: How to write the Global History of Knowledge-Making. Interaction, Circulation and the Transgression of Cultural Difference . Cham 2020 (Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 53) ( limited preview in Google book search).

Awards and prizes (sponsorship awards)

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