Thomas Winkelbauer

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Thomas Winkelbauer (born March 14, 1957 in Vienna ) is an Austrian historian . He is a professor at the University of Vienna and was director of the Institute for Austrian Historical Research from 2010 to 2020 .

Life

Winkelbauer attended high school in Zwettl and then studied history, political science and classical philology (Latin) (the latter without a degree) at the University of Vienna, where he obtained a doctorate in philosophy in 1984 at the humanities faculty. He is also a graduate of the training course at the Institute for Austrian Historical Research. From 1984 he was initially a university assistant to Wolfgang Häusler , became a university lecturer in 1987 and an assistant professor in 1995. In 1998 Winkelbauer completed his habilitation with a study on Gundaker von Liechtenstein and received the license to teach Austrian history .

As successor to Wolfgang Häusler , Winkelbauer has held the professorship for Austrian history with a focus on the history of the Habsburg Monarchy since the 16th century at the Institute for History at the University of Vienna since 2007 . He was also the director of this institute.

Winkelbauer is u. a. Full member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences , full member of the historical commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , full member of Academia Europaea , honorary doctorate of the Philosophical Faculty of Masaryk University in Brno , since May 1991 vice-president of the Waldviertel Homeland Association and member and was from 1 February 2010 to January 2020 Director of the Institute for Austrian Historical Research.

His research focuses on the history of the Habsburg Monarchy as well as the Bohemian and Austrian countries in the early modern period as well as the subjects of rulership administration, landlords and subjects. He has written numerous publications on the subjects of the history of the Habsburg monarchy in the early modern period and the history of the Waldviertel .

Fonts (selection)

  • Prince and prince servant. Gundaker of Liechtenstein. An Austrian aristocrat of the denominational age. Vienna and Munich, 1999 ISBN 978-3-486-64837-9 .
  • Gundaker von Liechtenstein as landlord in Lower Austria and Moravia. Normative sources for the administration and management of a rulership complex and for the regulation of the life of the subjects by a noble landlord and for the organization of the court and the chancellery of a "new prince" in the first half of the 17th century. Vienna, 2008.
  • Freedom of the class and the power of princes. Countries and subjects of the House of Habsburg in the denominational age 1522–1699 , in: Österreichische Geschichte 1522–1699 , 2 volumes, Verlag Ueberreuter, Vienna, 2003.
  • Robot and control. The subjects of the Waldviertel rulers Gföhl and Altpölla between feudal rule and absolutist state (from the 16th century to the Vormärz) , in: Research on regional studies of Lower Austria 25, Vienna 1986.
  • Studies on the history of the Wald- and Mühlviertel glassworks, their glass masters and workers in the 17th and 18th centuries . Unprinted state examination thesis at the Institute for Austrian Historical Research, Vienna 1986.

literature

  • Fritz Fellner , Doris A. Corradini (Ed.): Austrian History in the 20th Century. A biographical-bibliographical lexicon. Böhlau, Wien et al. 2006, ISBN 978-3-205-77476-1 , p. 455 ( Publications of the Commission for Modern History of Austria 99).
  • Erich Rabl: WHB Vice President Thomas Winkelbauer - 60 years . In: The Waldviertel. Journal for local and regional studies of the Waldviertel and the Wachau 66 (2017), pp. 1–6.
  • Gustav Reingrabner: Science Recognition Award: Ao. Univ.Prof. Dr. Thomas Winkelbauer. Ways out of the tightness ? In: Culture Prize Winner of the State of Lower Austria 1998 (St. Pölten 1998), pp. 20–21.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography in the section “Executive Board 2018-2021” of the magazine “Das Waldviertel” , accessed on October 10, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Winkelbauer, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna