Thomas Aigner (historian)

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Thomas Aigner (born June 12, 1973 in Mödling near Vienna) is an Austrian historian . He is director of the diocesan archive St. Pölten and president of the International Center for Archival Research ICARUS .

Life

Aigner attended elementary school in Altenmarkt an der Triesting , from 1983 to 1991 the grammar school in Berndorf and then studied history at the University of Vienna . In 1994 he graduated with a master's degree in philosophy and in 1997 he received his doctorate with the historical dissertation on the Mariazell monastery community . In addition, from 1992 he attended the training course at the Institute for Austrian Historical Research for archival and historical auxiliary sciences, which he completed in 1995 with the state examination.

Since 1995 he has been director of the diocesan archive St. Pölten and since June 2008 president of the International Center for Archival Research, a collaboration of more than 180 archives, universities and scientific institutions from Europe, the USA, Canada and Iraq to digitize their holdings. Several initiatives and projects in the field of digitization of historical sources go back to Aigner: 2002 Monasterium.Net (virtual archive of European documents), 2009 Matricula-Online (church books online) and 2011 the Austrian archive portal Archiv.net.

He played a leading role in numerous international projects, including a. Archives Portal Europe Network of excellence, European Network on archival cooperation (ENArC), Crossborderarchives (CRARC), CO: OP - The creative archives 'and users' network and in the executive team of the Time Machine project, an initiative for the comprehensive digitization of European cultural assets .

Aigner initiated the Icarus Alliance , which at the end of 2018 comprised around 180 institutions from almost 40 countries. On the occasion of its 10th anniversary in 2018, he stated:

"It is about bridging the great gap that separates our current era of global information from that of the preceding worlds before the computer age ."

- Thomas Aigner

Memberships

Aigner is a member of various international (ICA, ICARUS, Time Machine Organization) and national specialist bodies in Belgium, Germany, the Czech Republic, Croatia, Switzerland, Finland and Spain.

Awards

Aigner has received national and international awards.

Publications

  • Mariazell in Austria . A monastic community between the Reformation and the Enlightenment. (= Contributions to the Church History of Lower Austria, Volume 2, edited by the Episcopal Ordinariate St. Pölten , DASP (= Diocesan Archive St. Pölten). St. Pölten 1998, ISBN 3-901863-01-X .)
  • Aspects of Religiosity in the Early Modern Age (= Contributions to the Church History of Lower Austria 10, St. Pölten 2003)
  • Old Archives - New Technologies, conference proceedings, ed. With Karin Winter (St. Pölten) (Publisher: Diözesanarchiv St. Pölten 2006) ISBN 3-901863-26-5
  • Limitless - timeless. Monasteries in the heart of Europe, according to with Joachim Angerer and Gerhard Trumler (Vienna) (Publisher: Brandstätter Verlag) ISBN 3-85498-307-7
  • Archives on the Web, ed. according to with S. Hohenbruck, T. Just and J. Kemper (Publisher: Diözesanarchiv St. Pölten 2012) ISBN 978-3-901863-39-4
  • Between the times. The suffering savior in Dornau (Thenneberg), according to with Andreas Gamerith (St. Pölten 2014)
  • Sacralization of the landscape. Use, design and possession in the course of the Counter Reformation in Central Europe, ed. Together with Werner Telesko (St. Pölten 2019)
Articles (excerpt)
  • A country becomes monoconfessional. Catholic religiosity in the baroque age , in: Elisabeth Vavra (Hrsg.): Jakob Prandtauer. Life in the Baroque . St. Pölten 2010, pp. 86–93.
  • From the Baroque Age to the Josephine Reforms , in: Estimation. Fateful. Lower Austria. Treasures from two millennia . St. Pölten 2009, pp. 60–65.
  • Archives in the Digital Stone Age - Challenges and Perspectives in Cesta k rozmanitosti aneb Kavárenský povaleč digitálním historikem středověku , Sborník příspěvků k životnímu jubileu PhDr. Zdeňka Uhlíře (Prague 2016) 49-54
  • The ICARUS experience. Limitlessness, innovation, community in: 75th Southwest German Archive Day. Networking and collaboration of archives, ed. by Anna Pia Maissen and Peter Müller (Stuttgart 2016) 30-34
  • Regional history and identity. How boundaries can be overcome in: Hranice - Historie -Lidé. Border - History - People (= Connect. Contributions to the Bohemian-Moravian-Lower Austrian regional history 1, St. Pölten 2014) 11-16
  • Un´esperienza: Il progetto monastery . In: Seconda conferencea di archivisti ecclesiastici Europei, a cura di Gaetano ZITO (= Associazione archivistica ecclesiastica quaderni di “Archiva Ecclesiae” 12, Cittá del Vaticano 2014) 41-46
  • The Austrian archive portal “Archivnet” in: Scrinium 66 (2012) (Publisher: Association of Austrian Archivists) 61-64. ISSN  1012-0327
  • New challenges for archives on their way into the world wide web in Revista Arhivelor LXXXVI (2009) 2 (Publisher: Arhivele Nationale ale Romaniei, Bucuresti 2012) 17-23. ISSN  1453-1755
  • Virtual paths and access - portals to Austrian archives i: ARBIDO 1/2012 (publisher: Verein Schweizerischer Archivarinnen und Archivare, Zurich / CH) 19-22.
  • "... try, wait, readjust, set correctly, rinse and repeat the process" - archives on the way to the Internet in: Beruf (ung): Archivist. Festschrift for Lorenz Mikoletzky (= communications from the Austrian State Archives 55/1, Vienna) (publisher: Studienverlag) 235-243. ISBN 978-3-7065-5053-6
  • Monasterium.Net- Documenti Europei online in: Archivi V / 2 (lug.-dic. 2010) 123-128 (Publisher: Associazione Nazionale Archivistica Italiana) ISSN  1970-4070 , ISBN 978-88-6129-604-6

Web links

Single receipts

  1. ^ History of the DASP accessed on May 13, 2019
  2. ↑ Thomas Aigner from Kral-Verlag, accessed on May 13, 2019
  3. ↑ Susanne Mauthner-Weber: Big Data should bring the past back to life. In: futurezone . April 29, 2019, accessed May 13, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Martin Kugler: The digitization of archives . Die Presse November 4, 2018, p.24
  5. ↑ Award for Thomas Aigner from September 2, 2011, accessed on May 13, 2019.
  6. ^ Silver Decoration of Honor of the Republic for diocesan archivist Thomas Aigner. Diocese of St. Pölten, December 13, 2013, accessed on May 13, 2019 .
  7. ↑ High Honor of the Czech Republic for Diocesan Archivist from July 3, 2014, accessed on May 13, 2019.
  8. ↑ Nizom događaja Hrvatski državni arhiv proslavio Dan arhiva from November 14, 2015 accessed on May 13, 2019 (Croatian)
  9. ↑ Auctor Scientiae (Promoter of Science) of November 17, 2018, accessed on May 13, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Aigner, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Mödling