Robert Rösler
Eduard Robert Rösler (born March 2, 1836 in Olomouc , Moravia , † August 6, 1874 in Graz ) was an Austrian historian and geographer .
Life
Robert Rösler was the son of a magistrate. He studied at the University of Vienna first Jus , then from 1853 to 1855 history . 1855–57 he completed the first training course at the Institute for Austrian Historical Research . From 1859 he was a high school professor in Troppau (Opava), from 1860 in Vienna . In 1860 he received his doctorate. phil .; from 1863 he was a private lecturer in general history at the University of Vienna.
After a trip to Egypt and Italy (1865/66) financed by Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian , who later became Emperor of Mexico , and a brief activity at the Vienna University Library, Rösler worked from 1869–71 as a full professor of Austrian history at the University of Lemberg , from 1871 as full professor for geography and history at the University of Graz .
From 1872 Rösler was a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences in Vienna. Among his publications, which are mainly devoted to the medieval history of the lower Danube countries , his work on Romanian ethnogenesis is still widely cited today, in which he - in the wake of Franz Josef Sulzer and Johann Christian Engel - opposed the continuity of Romania north of the Danube (especially in Transylvania ), which earned him severe criticism from the Romanian side as well as from Julius Jung .
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Rösler, Robert . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 28th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1874, p. 370 ( digital copy ).
- MD Peyfuss : Rösler (Eduard) Robert. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 9, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-7001-1483-4 , p. 204 f. (Direct links on p. 204 , p. 205 ).
1. Chair of Physical Geography I: Robert Rösler (1871–1874) | Wilhelm Tomaschek (1881–1885) | Eduard Richter (1886–1905) | Robert Sieger (1905–1926) | Otto Maull (1929–1945) | Hans Spreitzer (1947–1952) | Herbert Schlenger (1954–1957) | Herbert Paschinger (1958–1981) | Herwig Wakonigg (1982-2008) | Ulrich Strasser (2008–2012) | Wolfgang Schöner (since 2014)
2. Chair of Human Geography: Sieghard Morawetz (1963–1974) | Wilhelm Leitner (1976–1996) | Friedrich Zimmermann (1997–2008) | Anke Strüver (since 2018)
3. Chair of Physical Geography II: Walter Zsilincsar (1983–2007) | Oliver Sass (2009–2019) | Martin Mergili (since 2020)
4. Chair of Geography Didactics and Socio-Economic Education: Ulrich Ermann (since 2012)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rösler, Robert |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rösler, Eduard Robert (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian historian and geographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 2, 1836 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Olomouc |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 6, 1874 |
| Place of death | Graz |