Moritz Csáky

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Moritz Csáky (born April 3, 1936 in Levoča , Czechoslovakia ) is an Austrian historian and cultural scientist.

Life

In 1945 the family moved from Slovakia to Austria. Csáky graduated from the humanistic grammar school in Bischofshofen / Salzburg in 1954 with the Matura and began studying philosophy, Catholic theology, ethnology and church history in St. Gabriel / Mödling (abs. Theol. 1961), Rome (Università Pontificia Gregoriana, Lic. Hist . eccl. 1963) and Paris ( Institut catholique ). He then took up studies in general history, economic and social history and musicology in Vienna (Dr. phil. 1966).

His assistantship led him to the International Research Center Salzburg (1964–65 with Erika Weinzierl ), then to the Institute for History at the University of Vienna (since 1967, with Heinrich Lutz ). Study and research stays in Paris and Budapest. Habilitation in general history of modern times (1979, with Heinrich Lutz and Adam Wandruszka ). From 1984 until his retirement in 2004 he was full professor for Austrian history at the University of Graz , where he was also head of the institute for history from 1997 to 2001.

Csáky taught at the Universities of Vienna (1967–1984) and Graz (1984–2004), as well as the Diplomatic Academy in Vienna (1988–1995). With his admission to the Austrian Academy of Sciences (corresponding member since 1991, real member since 1998), Csáky expanded his research focus on cultural-scientific questions in the historical development of Central Europe in the modern age and developed into a specialist in this field.

From 1997 to 2005 he headed the SFB Moderne at the University of Graz, from 1998 to 2009 the commission for cultural studies and theater history of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

Memberships

  • Since 1992 chairman of the literary and cultural studies committee of the Austrian and Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
  • 1992–1995 Founder and President of the International Research Center for Cultural Studies (IFK)
  • Since 1995 member of the General Council of the IFK, Vienna.
  • 1986–1997 Vice President of the Fund for the Promotion of Scientific Research FWF
  • Since 1997 Trustee of the Wittgenstein Archive, Cambridge / UK.
  • From 1998 to 2010 chairman of the commission for cultural studies and theater history of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
  • Since 1998 (initiator and) head of the research program Places of Memory at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (1998 ff.)
  • Since 1999 chairman of the board of trustees of the Institute for Urban and Regional Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
  • 1992–2002 member of the European Science Foundation
  • Since 2000 Professor Associé à la Faculté des Lettres de l'Université Laval, Québec / Canada.
  • Since 2005 member of the decision-making body of the Social Science College of the OTKA (= Hungarian Fund for the Promotion of Scientific Research), Budapest.
  • Since 2005 member of the scientific advisory board of Direction Générale IV: Education, Culture et Patrimoine, Jeunesse et Sport, Conseil de l'Europe (Council of Europe), Strasbourg.
  • Since 1998 external member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Awards

(* = Basic funding for the Moritz Csáky dedication established at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 1997/98 in favor of promoting young scientists from eastern and south-eastern neighboring countries of Austria.)

Publications

Monographs:

  • The culture war in Hungary. The Church Political Legislation of 1894/95. Studies on the history of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy 6, Graz-Vienna-Cologne: Böhlau 1967.
  • From Enlightenment to Liberalism. Studies on early liberalism in Hungary. Publication of the Commission for the History of Austria 10, Vienna: ÖAW 1981.
  • Ideology of operetta and Viennese modernism. A cultural-historical essay, Vienna-Cologne-Weimar: Böhlau 1996, ²1998 (Hungarian 1999, Slovenian 2001, Russian 2001, Romanian 2013).
  • The memory of the cities. Cultural entanglements - Vienna and the urban milieus in Central Europe, Vienna-Cologne-Weimar: Böhlau 2010.
  • "There is a tradition that is a disaster". The multiple coding of memory and recollection in Central Europe, Bratislava-Bremen: Univerzita Komenského / edition lumière 2017.
  • The memory of Central Europe. Cultural and literary projections on a region, Vienna-Cologne-Weimar: Böhlau 2019.


Articles (selection):

  • The Roman Catholic Church in Hungary, in: Adam Wandruszka, Peter Urbanitsch (eds.), The Habsburg Monarchy 1848–1918, Vol. 4: The Confessions, Vienna: ÖAW 1983, 248–331.
  • The 'Sodalitas littararia Danubiana': historical reality or poetic fiction by Conrad Celtis? In: Herbert Zeman (Ed.), The Austrian Literature. Your profile from the beginnings in the Middle Ages to the 18th century, Part II, Graz: ADVA 1986, 739–758.
  • Critères d'une auto-reconnaissance sous la Habsbourg monarchy, in: Les Temps Modernes 48 (May 1992), 154–170.
  • Viennese modernism. A contribution to a theory of modernity in Central Europe, in: Rudolf Haller (Hrsg.), Nach kakanien. Approaching Modernism, Vienna-Cologne-Weimar: Böhlau 1996, 59–102.
  • Multicultural Communities: Tensions and Qualities. The Example of Central Europe, in: Eve Blau, Monika Platzer (ed.), Shaping the Great City. Modern Architecture in Central Europe 1890–1937, Munich-London-New York: Prestel 1999, 43–55.
  • Operetta, in: Jean-Jacques Nattiez, Margaret Bent, Rossana Dalmonte, Mario Baroni (ed.), Enciclopedia della musica IV: Storia della musica europea, Torino: Einaudi 2004, 976–1001.
  • A kommunikációs térként értett kultúra. Közép-Európa példája, in: Irodalomtörténet XLI (Budapest 2010/1), 3–27.
  • Culture as a Space of communication, in: Johannes Feichtinger, Gary B. Cohen (ed.). Understanding Multiculturalism. The Habsburg Central Europe Experience, New York-Oxford: Berghahn 2014, 187-208.
  • Food and eating from a cultural-scientific perspective, in: Moritz Csáky, Georg-Christian Lack (eds.), Culinary and culture. Food as cultural codes in Central Europe, Vienna-Cologne-Weimar: Böhlau 2014, 9–36.
  • Kafka, the operetta and the music of Yiddish theater, in: Steffen Höhne, Alice Stašková (eds.), Franz Kafka and the music, Cologne-Weimar-Vienna: Böhlau 2017, 35–61.
  • Complexní prostor literární komunikace, in: Česká Literatura 2/2019, 213–223.
  • Central Europe: Linguistic polyphony and communication, in: Marek Nekula (Ed.), Magazines as nodes of modernity, Heidelberg: Winter 2019, 73–91.


Edition:

  • Hermann Bahr, Diaries - Sketchbooks - Notebooks, Vol. 1: 1885–1890. Edited by Moritz Csáky, edited by Lottelis Moser and Helene Zand, Vienna-Cologne-Weimar: Böhlau 1994.
  • Hermann Bahr, Diaries - Sketchbooks - Notebooks, Vol. 2: 1890–1900. Edited by Moritz Csáky, edited by Helene Zand, Lottelis Moser and Lukas Mayerhofer, Vienna-Cologne-Weimar: Böhlau 1996.
  • Hermann Bahr, Diaries - Sketchbooks - Notebooks, Vol. 3: 1901–1903. Edited by Moritz Csáky, edited by Helene Zand and Lukas Mayerhofer, Vienna-Cologne-Weimar: Böhlau 1997.
  • Hermann Bahr, Diaries – Sketchbooks – Notebooks, Vol. 4: 1904–1905. Edited by Moritz Csáky, edited by Lukas Mayerhofer and Helene Zand, Vienna – Cologne – Weimar: Böhlau 2000.
  • Hermann Bahr, Diaries-Sketchbooks-Notebooks, Vol. 5: 1906–1908. Edited by Moritz Csáky, edited by Kurt Ifkovits and Lukas Mayerhofer, Vienna-Cologne-Weimar: Böhlau 2003.


Editing (selection):

  • Europe in the Age of Mozart, edited by Moritz Csáky and Walter Pass, arr. by Harald Haslmayr and Alexander Rausch, Vienna-Cologne-Weimar: Böhlau 1995.
  • Literature as text of culture, edited by Moritz Csáky and Richard Reichensperger, Vienna: Passagen 1999.
  • Kolektívne identity v strednej Európe v období moderny, zostavili Moritz Csáky, Elena Mannová, Bratislava: Academic Electronic Press 1999.
  • Memory of memory. Libraries, museums, archives Part 1: Rejection and restoration of the past. Compensation for loss of history. Edited by Moritz Csáky and Peter Stachel, Vienna: Passagen 2000.
  • Ambivalence of the cultural heritage - multiple coding of historical memory = paradigm: Central Europe vol. 1. Ed. By Moritz Csáky and Klaus Zeyringer, Innsbruck-Vienna-Munich: Studienverlag 2000.
  • Memory of memory. Libraries, museums, archives Part 2: The invention of the origin. The systematization of time. Edited by Moritz Csáky and Peter Stachel, Vienna: Passagen 2001.
  • The location of memory. Edited by Moritz Csáky and Peter Stachel, Vienna: Passagen 2001.
  • Pluralities, religions and cultural codes = paradigm: Central Europe vol. 3rd ed. By Moritz Csáky and Klaus Zeyringer, Innsbruck-Vienna-Munich: Studienverlag 2001.
  • Ambiguity. The ambivalence of memory and recollection. Edited by Moritz Csáky and Peter Stachel, Vienna: Passagen 2002.
  • Staging of the collective memory. Self-images, external images = paradigm: Central Europe Vol. 4th ed. By Moritz Csáky and Klaus Zeyringer, Innsbruck-Vienna-Munich-Bozen: Studienverlag 2002.
  • Culture, identity, difference. Vienna and Central Europe in the Modern Age. Edited by Moritz Csáky, Astrid Kury, Ulrich Tragatschnig, Innsbruck-Vienna-Munich-Bozen: Studienverlag 2004.
  • Baroque - a “place of memory”. Interpretament of modernity / postmodernism. With a CD by Sherri Jones. Edited by Moritz Csáky, Federico Celestini, Ulrich Tragatschnig, Vienna-Cologne-Weimar: Böhlau 2007.
  • Europe - united by values? The European debate on values ​​put to the test of history. Edited by Moritz Csáky, Johannes Feichtinger, Bielefeld: transcript 2007.
  • Beyond borders. Transnational, translocal memory. Edited by Moritz Csáky, Elisabeth Großegger, Vienna: Praesens 2007.
  • Communication, memory, space. Cultural studies after the "spatial turn". Edited by Moritz Csáky, Christoph Leitgeb, Bielefeld: transcript 2009.
  • Culinary and culture. Food as cultural codes in Central Europe. Edited by Moritz Csáky, Georg-Christian Lack, Vienna-Cologne-Weimar: Böhlau 2014.

literature

  • Gotthart Wunberg , Dieter A. Binder (Ed.): Plurality. An interdisciplinary approach. Festschrift for Moritz Csáky . Böhlau, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-205-98553-2 .
  • Lutz Musner, Gotthart Wunberg, Eva Cescutti (Eds.): Disturbed Identities? An interim balance sheet of the Second Republic. A symposium for the 65th birthday of Moritz Csáky . StudienVerlag, Innsbruck 2002, ISBN 3-7065-1687-X .

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personal data
SURNAME Csáky, Moritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian historian and cultural scientist
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Levoča , Czechoslovakia