Johannes Mattes

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Johannes Mattes (born September 23, 1983 in Linz ) is an Austrian historian and speleologist . He works at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and at the Institute for History at the University of Vienna .

Life

Mattes spent his childhood in the Salzkammergut and attended elementary school in Ebensee . After graduating from high school in Gmunden , he studied German philology and history at the University of Vienna from 2002 . In addition, study trips took him to Siberia, Greenland and Australia. After graduating as a Magister for German History ( teaching post) in 2009, he worked as an AHS teacher in Vienna. In 2013 he received his doctorate with a thesis on the cultural and scientific history of speleology .

In 2012 he was elected a member of the International Commission on the History of Geological Sciences (INHIGEO), and in 2013 he was elected Councilor of the History of Earth Science Society. Since 2014 he has worked as a lecturer at the Institute for History at the University of Vienna, and since 2018 as a research assistant at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Mattes was visiting professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris) and visiting researcher at Stanford University (CA) and York University (Toronto).

His main research interests are the history of science in a cultural context (earth sciences, speleology, geography, cartography, biology, prehistory), scientific societies & academies, popular science, intersections between politics, research and the public.

In cave research he worked as an expedition leader and plan draftsman, especially in the documentation of the Gassel stalactite cave near Ebensee . In 2010 he was elected General Secretary of the Association of Austrian Speleologists and was awarded the Poldi Fuhrich Prize. From 2013 to 2018 he was co-editor of the peer-reviewed specialist publication Die Höhle - a magazine for karst and cave studies and has since been a member of the commission at the Union Internationale de Spéléologie . In 2018 he was President of the international speleological congress EuroSpeleo Forum with 700 participants in Ebensee.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • Ceremonial speech and festival as forms of collective representation. The Viennese government anniversary celebrations of Franz Joseph I (1908) and the «Turkish liberation celebrations» (1933) in comparison. Peter Lang, Frankfurt a. M., Vienna, New York 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-61946-9 .
  • Traveling underground. A cultural history of cave research in Austria up to the interwar period. Böhlau, Vienna, Cologne, Weimar 2015, ISBN 978-3-205-79687-9 .
  • Knowledge cultures of the subterranean. Mediator in the field of tension between science and the public Böhlau, Vienna, Cologne, Weimar 2019, ISBN 978-3-205-20678-1 .

Editorships

  • Alexander Mörk von Mörkenstein. Painter, man of letters, cave explorer. Tandem, Salzburg, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-902606-70-9 .
  • With Erhard Christian, Lukas Plan: Proceedings of the 12th EuroSpeleo Forum, Ebensee, 2018 . Association of Austrian Speleologists Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3-903093-30-0 .
  • With Dietmar Kuffner: Höh (l) en air and knowledge space . Upper Austrian State Museum Linz 2018.

Scientific papers

  • Disciplinary Identities and Crossing Boundaries: The Academization of Speleology in the First Half of the Twentieth Century . In: Earth Sciences History 34 (2) 2015, pp. 275-295.
  • Underground Fieldwork - A Cultural and Social History of Cave Cartography and Surveying Instruments in the 19th and at the Beginning of the 20th Century . In: International Journal of Speleology 44, 2015, pp. 251–266.
  • Going deeper underground. Social Cooperation in Early Twentieth-Century Cave Expeditions . In: Marianne Klemun, Ulrike Spring (Ed.): Expeditions as Experiments. Practicing Observation and Documentation. Palgrave Macmillan, London 2016, pp. 163-186.
  • Social and everyday history of a lumberjack in the Salzkammergut . In: Johannes Mattes, Dietmar Kuffner (Hrsg.): Höh (l) enluft and knowledge space. Upper Austrian State Museum, Linz 2018, pp. 77–90.
  • Traveling Olms: Local and Global Perspectives on the Research on Proteus anguinus (1700-1930) . In: Viaggiatori 1, 2018, pp. 186-203.
  • Mapping Narratives & Making Politics - Discourses on Space and Identity in the Correspondence of Jovan Cvijić . In: Jovana Brankov, Maija Drobnjaković (ed.): The Balkan Peninsula of Jovan Cvijić. Historical Background and Contemporary Trends in Human Geography. Serbian Academy of Sciences & Arts, Belgrade 2018, pp. 55–70.

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personal data
SURNAME Mattes, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian historian, speleologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Linz , Austria