Universities in Imperial Austria 1848-1918 (eBook)

A Social History of a Multilingual Space

Jan Surman (Autor)

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2018
472 Seiten
Purdue University Press (Verlag)
978-1-61249-562-0 (ISBN)

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Combining history of science and a history of universities with the new imperial history, Universities in Imperial Austria 1848-1918: A Social History of a Multilingual Space by Jan Surman analyzes the practice of scholarly migration and its lasting influence on the intellectual output in the Austrian part of the Habsburg Empire.The Habsburg Empire and its successor states were home to developments that shaped Central Europe's scholarship well into the twentieth century. Universities became centers of both state- and nation-building, as well as of confessional resistance, placing scholars if not in conflict, then certainly at odds with the neutral international orientation of academe.By going beyond national narratives, Surman reveals the Empire as a state with institutions divided by language but united by legislation, practices, and other influences. Such an approach allows readers a better view to how scholars turned gradually away from state-centric discourse to form distinct language communities after 1867; these influences affected scholarship, and by examining the scholarly record, Surman tracks the turn.Drawing on archives in Austria, the Czech Republic, Poland, and Ukraine, Surman analyzes the careers of several thousand scholars from the faculties of philosophy and medicine of a number of Habsburg universities, thus covering various moments in the history of the Empire for the widest view. Universities in Imperial Austria 1848 1918 focuses on the tension between the political and linguistic spaces scholars occupied and shows that this tension did not lead to a gradual dissolution of the monarchy s academia, but rather to an ongoing development of new strategies to cope with the cultural and linguistic multitude.

Inhalt

List of Illustrations

List of Tables

Acknowledgments

Note on Language Use, Terminology, and Geography

Abbreviations

Introduction A Biography of the Academic Space

Chapter 1 Centralizing Science for the Empire

Chapter 2 The Neoabsolutist Search for a Unified Space

Chapter 3 Living Out Academic Autonomy

Chapter 4 German-Language Universities between Austrian and German Space

Chapter 5 Habsburg Slavs and Their Spaces

Chapter 6 Imperial Space and Its Identities

Chapter 7 Habsburg Legacies

Conclusion Paradoxes of the Central European Academic Space

Appendix 1 Disciplines of Habilitation at Austrian Universities

Appendix 2 Databases of Scholars at Cisleithanian Universities

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.12.2018
• Reihe/Serie: Central European Studies
• Verlagsort: West Lafayette
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Schlagworte: Central Europe • Habsburg Empire • History of Science • Imperial Austria • scholarly migration • scholarly mobility • science and empire • scientific transfer • University History
• ISBN-10: 1-61249-562-1 / 1612495621
• ISBN-13: 978-1-61249-562-0 / 9781612495620