Michael Weinzierl

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Michael Weinzierl (born August 6, 1950 in Vienna ; † June 19, 2002 there ) was an Austrian historian . He was an associate professor for modern history at the University of Vienna .

Life

Weinzierl, grandson of the lawyer and ministerial official Moriz Weinzierl , was the older of two sons of the physicist Peter Weinzierl (1923–1996) and the contemporary historian Erika Weinzierl (1925–2014), née. Fisherman. His brother is the Germanist and journalist Ulrich Weinzierl (* 1954). He attended the Catholic private school Schottengymnasium in the 1st district of Vienna ( Inner City ).

He then studied history, art history and political science at the University of Vienna and in 1971 became a research assistant at the Institute for History there. In 1975, he was then at Gerald Stourzh with the dissertation Republican politics and republican political theory, from 1658 to 1660 for Dr. phil. PhD.

He became a university assistant; In 1988 he completed his habilitation with the work published in 1993, The Transformation of English Political Culture and the Beginnings of Modern Conservatism . Weinzierl then became a university lecturer in modern history. In 1996 he received the title of associate professor (tit. Ao. Prof.), from 1999 he was associate professor .

He was a member of the editorial team of the Viennese magazine on the history of modern times .

Weinzierl dealt with English history , revolutions , religion and political culture .

Fonts

  • with Ernst Wangermann, Johanna Borek, Michel Cullin , Karl Duffek, Edith Rosenstrauch and Birgit Wagner (eds.): The Difficult Birth of Freedom [The Vienna Symposium on the French Revolution] . On behalf of the Association for Research into the French Revolution. Special number, Vienna 1991, ISBN 3-85449-031-3 .
  • Freedom, property and no equality. The transformation of English political culture and the beginnings of modern conservatism 1791–1812 (= Ancien Régime, Enlightenment and Revolution . Volume 26). Oldenbourg, Vienna et al. 1993, ISBN 3-7029-0355-0 .
  • with Friedrich Edelmayer and Bernd Hausberger (eds.): The two Americas. The New World under colonial rule (= historical social studies . Supplement 7). Brandes and Apsel, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1996, ISBN 3-86099-167-1 .
  • as publisher: Individualization, Rationalization, Secularization: New Paths in the History of Religions (= Viennese Contributions to the History of Modern Times . Volume 22). Oldenbourg, Munich et al. 1997, ISBN 3-486-56267-3 .
  • with Helgard Fröhlich and Margarete Grandner (eds.): 1848 in a European context (= cross sections . Volume 1). Turia + Kant, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-85132-209-6 .
  • with Johannes Dantine and Klaus Thien (eds.): Protestant Mentalities (= Passages Society ). Passagen-Verlag, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-85165-385-8 .
  • with Margarete Grandner and Wolfgang Schmale (eds.): Basic and human rights: Historical perspectives - current problems (= cross sections . Volume 9). Verlag für Geschichte und Politik, Vienna et al. 2002, ISBN 3-7028-0390-4 .

literature

  • Weinzierl, Michael. In: Fritz Fellner , Doris A. Corradini: Austrian History in the 20th Century. A biographical-bibliographical lexicon (= publications of the Commission for Modern History of Austria. Volume 99). Böhlau, Vienna et al. 2006, ISBN 3-205-77476-0 , p. 445.
  • Margarete Grandner, Andrea Griesebner , Birgit Wagner: Michael Weinzierl (1950–2002). In: Viennese magazine for the history of modern times . 2, 2, 2002, pp. 106-111.
  • Brigitte-Bader Zaar, Margarete Grandner, Edith Sauer (eds.): On the way to the modern age: radical thinking, enlightenment and conservatism: commemorative volume for Michael Weinzierl (= Viennese writings on the history of modern times . Volume 5). Studienverlag, Innsbruck 2007, ISBN 978-3-7065-4335-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The "Wiener Zeitschrift zur Geschichte der Neuzeit". at: univie.ac.at , accessed on September 5, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Weinzierl, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian historian
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH June 19, 2002
Place of death Vienna