Kurt Mühlberger

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Kurt Mühlberger (born January 15, 1948 in Vienna ) was director of the archives of the University of Vienna and was involved in researching the history of this university.

Study and teaching

Mühlberger began a commercial apprenticeship in 1962 . Since 1972 he has worked as a self-employed trader, since 1975 he has studied history and German at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Vienna . With an (unpublished) dissertation on a medieval theme, on the Franco-Bavarian Ostland in the ninth century , he received his doctorate in 1980 for Dr. phil. He completed the three-year course at the Institute for Austrian Historical Research in 1983 (with a state examination). Because of this degree and his later archival practice, he received the academic degree of MAS . From 1989 to 1997 and again from 2008 to 2010 he was a lecturer at the Institute for History at the University of Vienna. In 2008 he completed his habilitation in Austrian history .

Head of the University Archives

From 1983 to 2010 he was director of the archives of the University of Vienna . He expanded this archive into a research facility in which the university's sources were made available to interested historians. The editing work was further advanced, and founded a new series for the publication of research results, now writings of the archive of the University of Vienna called, beginning in 1985 (from Mühlberger together with Günther Hamann and Franz Skacel). The original name of the series was: Schriftenreihe des Universitätsarchiv, Universität Wien . Today the editors are next to Mühlberger his successor as archive director, Thomas Maisel, and the deputy archive manager Johannes Seidl .

Mühlberger's own publications mainly concern the more than six centuries of history of the University of Vienna, which was founded in 1365. Most recently he worked on the edition of the matriculation until 1778.

Mühlberger is a member of the board of the “Austrian Society for the History of Science” (since 1988) and the “Society for the History of University and Science” (since 2001). In 1998 he was appointed councilor .

Publications (selection)

  • Industry and commercial operations in the Waldviertel as reflected in regional and topographical sources, 1796–1848. In: Helmuth Feigl (Hrsg.): Attempts and approaches for the industrialization of the Waldviertel (= studies and research from the Lower Austrian Institute for Regional Studies; 12). Vienna 1990, pp. 229-298.
  • Viennese student courses and codree in the change from the 15th to the 16th century . In: Aspects of educational and university history (= series of publications of the university archive, University of Vienna ; 7). Vienna 1993, pp. 129-190.
  • The University of Vienna. Brief glimpses of a long story . Vienna 1996 (2nd edition 2001).
  • Comments on the Vienna Poet College . In: City Archives and City History (= Historical Yearbook of the City of Linz; 2003/2004), pp. 763–778.
  • Financial aspects of Ferdinand I's university reform in Vienna, 1521–1564 . In: Rainer Christoph Schwinges (Hrsg.): Financing the University and Science in the Past and Present (= publications of the Society for University and Science History; 6). Basel 2005, pp. 115–142.
  • Poet College and Coronation of Poets in Vienna , in: Images - Dates - Promotions. Studies on doctoral studies at German universities in the early modern period , ed. by Rainer A. Müller †, arr. by Hans-Christoph Liess, Rüdiger vom Bruch (= Pallas Athene. Contributions to the history of universities and science; 24). Stuttgart 2007, pp. 84-119.
  • as editor: Matricula Facultatis Juridicae Universitatis Vindobonensis , Vol. 1: 1402–1442 (= publications of the Institute for Austrian Historical Research, 6th series, 3rd department). Vienna, Munich 2011 ( online version ).
  • as publisher: The register of the University of Vienna , vol. 7: 1715 / 16–1745 / 46 . 2011 ( online version ).

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SURNAME Mühlberger, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna