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Author Surman, Jan

Title Universities in Imperial Austria 1848-1918 : a Social History of a Multilingual Space
Published Ashland : Purdue University Press, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (473 pages)
Series Central European Studies
Central European studies.
Contents Cover; Copyright; Contents; 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 UniversitiesAppendix 2: Databases of Scholars at Cisleithanian Universities; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes This work is licensed under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode
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Subject Higher education and state -- Austria -- History
Universities and colleges -- Austria
Science -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Austria
Language and education -- Austria
European history.
EDUCATION -- Higher.
HISTORY / Europe / Austria & Hungary
Higher education and state.
Language and education.
Politics and government.
Science -- Study and teaching (Higher)
Universities and colleges.
SUBJECT Austria -- Politics and government -- 1848-1918. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009735
Subject Austria.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
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