Tim Bonyhady

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Tim Bonyhady (* 1957 ) is an Australian historian, curator and environmental advocate. He is Director of the Center of Climate Law and Policy at the Australian National University and lives in Canberra . Bonyhady is one of the descendants of the Gallia family , which before the First World War and in the interwar period the bourgeoisie of Vienna counted.

Life

Bonyhady is one of the two sons of Anne Gallia (also: Annelore Herschmann, 1922–2003) and Eric Bonyhady (* 1923) and grandson of Gretl Gallia (1896–1975). Bonyhady is a professor at the ANU College of Law. Bonyhady is Director of the Australian Center for Environmental Law and Director of the Center for Climate Law and Policy. He is also a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Bonyhady has published historical works and organized several art history exhibitions. He has received numerous awards for his scientific work.

Bonyhady wrote the family history of Gallia in 2011. The work was honored with one of the prizes of the Premier's Literary Awards given by the state of New South Wales , the Community Relations for a Multicultural NSW Award .

In 2020, Bonyhady published a text in the Viennese daily Der Standard about his grandfather Eduard, born in Bruck an der Mur , Styria , in 1888 : He loved the Alps . In 1920, his grandfather spoke out against discrimination against Jews by the Alpine Club . These were temporarily organized in the Donauland section when anti-Semitism prevailed in various Alpine Club sections .

Fonts

  • with Tom Griffiths: Words for Country: Landscape and Language in Australia , University of New South Wales, 2001
  • The Colonial Earth , University Press, Melbourne 2003; honored with the Australian History Prize awarded at the New South Wales Premier's History Awards
  • Patricia Tryon MacDonald, Tim Barringer and Tim Bonyhady: Exiles & Immigrants: Epic Journeys to Australia in the Victorian Era , National Gallery of Victoria, 2006
  • with Peter Christoff: Climate Law in Australia , Federation Press, 2007
  • with Andrew Macintosh: Mills, Mines and Other Controversies: The Environmental Assessment of Major Projects , Federation Press, 2010
  • Good Living Street. The Fortunes of My Viennese Family , Allen & Unwin, Sydney 2011
    • Wohllebengasse. The story of my Viennese family , translated by Brigitte Hilzensauer, Paul Zsolnay Verlag, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-552-05648-0

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. cover text of his book Wohllebengasse ... (see works)
  2. List of the 2012 recipients on the website of the State Library of New South Wales ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sl.nsw.gov.au
  3. Der Standard , Vienna, May 2, 2020, page album A4