Peter Rauscher

Peter Rauscher (* 1970 in Nuremberg ) is a German historian and private lecturer who teaches and researches at the University of Vienna today (2016) . His research interests include the history of the Habsburg Monarchy and the Holy Roman Empire, as well as financial, administrative and economic history . Another focus is Jewish history in modern times .

Life

Peter Rauscher was born in Nuremberg in 1970. He attended from 1976 to 1989 in the Middle-Franconian town of Röthenbach an der Pegnitz the primary school and secondary school. In 1989/90 he did basic military service . Then from 1991 to 2001 studied history and German philology at the universities of Erlangen-Nuremberg , Tübingen , Vienna and Passau . In 1997 he received the academic title of Mag. Phil. and in 2001 he received his doctorate as Dr. phil.

He then worked as a research assistant and project manager at the University of Vienna and other research institutions.

Langenlois: A Jewish rural community in Lower Austria in the age of the Thirty Years War , 2004, ISBN 3-900708-18-5
Between estates and creditors. The imperial finances under Ferdinand I and Maximilian II (1556-1576) , 2004, ISBN 3-486-57598-8
with Barbara Staudinger: Austria Judaica. Sources on the history of the Jews in Lower Austria and Vienna 1496-1671 , 2011, ISBN 978-3-486-59768-4

Warfare and State Finances. The Habsburg Monarchy and the Holy Roman Empire from the Thirty Years War to the end of the Habsburg Empire in 1740 , 2010, ISBN 978-3-402-13993-6
with Andrea Serles and Thomas Winkelbauer: The "blood of the state body". Research on the history of finance in the early modern period , 2012, ISBN 978-3-486-70842-4
with Martin Scheutz: The voice of the eternal losers? Uprising, revolts and revolutions in the Austrian countries (approx. 1450-1815) , 2013, ISBN 978-3-486-71962-8
with Andrea Serles: Weighing - Counting - Registering. Mass sources of trade history and the research of Central European markets (13th-18th centuries) , 2015, ISBN 978-3-7065-5420-6

↑ ^a ^b biography at the Institute for History at the University of Vienna; accessed on February 26, 2016