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Alpenverein
(2007)
The Deutsche und Österreichische Alpenverein resulted from a merger of the Österreichischer Alpenverein founded in 1862 with the Deutsche Alpenverein in 1873. Both clubs had been initiated by urban circles in Vienna, Munich ...
Der Kaiser ist ein Lump und Spitzbube
(2010)
The subject of this study is the criminal prosecution of insulting remarks about the emperor in the Habsburg monarchy in the second half of the 19th century (1852-1918). The first chapter discusses the historical development ...
Lenz-Bilder
(2009)
Since the beginning of reception, Büchner's epoch-making narrative Lenz was praised for its iconic quality, for the suggestive verbal mediacy of visual experience and the evocation of mental pictures. But so far research ...
Briefwechsel 1907-1925
(2010)
The letters between Sigmund Freud and Karl Abraham constitute one of the most important correspondences of Freud. Karl Abraham was an important and influential early member of Freud's inner circle of trusted colleagues. ...
Diateichismata
(2009)
A Diateichisma is part of a city´s fortification system. Unlike a city wall it was built within the urban area dividing a city in two parts. This study focuses on two aspects. On the one hand, the phenomenon of diateichismata ...
Die hellenistischen Reliefbecher aus Lousoi
(2008)
The ancient city of Lousoi was located to west of the well known Artemis Hemera sanctuary, at the foot of Mount Ilias. In the year 1983 the Austrian Archaeological Institute (ÖAI) in Athens started with systematic excavations ...
Sprachatlas des Dolomitenladinischen und angrenzender Gebiete
(2012)
The second volume contains 218 dialect maps which embrace dialectal terminologies from human relations to the different parts of the house.Second map volume of a linguistic atlas with five map volumes and two index volumes.
Johannes Freinsheim. Supplementa in Q. Curtium
(2019-07)
Johann Freinsheim’s Supplementa in Q. Curtium are supplements to the lost parts of the Historiae Alexandri, an ancient history of Alexander the Great written by Q. Curtius Rufus. For the first time, a modern edition and a ...
Varietates topiorum
(2015)
The purpose and subject of this dissertation is an analysis in space-representation and perspective drawing of Roman and Campanian landscape painting to develop and reconstruct the modes of landscape recognition and spatial ...
Zwischen geistiger Erneuerung und Restauration
(2014)
The book discusses the origins and the formation of U.S. reorientation strategies for post-war democratization and its implementation in the aftermath of World War II, exemplified by case studies of university and academic ...
Protokolle des Ministerrates der Ersten Republik, Kabinett Dr. Kurt Schuschnigg, Band 8 (4. Juni 1937 – 21. Februar 1938)
(2013)
With this volume, the Edition of the Minutes of the Meetings of the Schuschnigg Cabinet (July 29, 1934 to March 11, 1938) comes to a close. The edition of this essential source of Austrian history opens up new scientific ...
Jahrbuch des Kunsthistorischen Museums Wien, Band 15/16
(2015)
The Jahrbuch des Kunsthistorischen Museums Wien is among the oldest continuously published periodicals on art and art history issued by a museum. Volume 15/16 continues the basic research on primary sources representative ...
Sport und Recht in der Antike
(2014)
The volume deals with the juridical and institutional framework of athletic and artistic games from archaic Greece to late antique Rome. The agones’ rules and regulations, the funding by public contributions and wealthy ...
„Im nationalen Abwehrkampf der Grenzlanddeutschen“
(2014)
The book depicts the ideological foundations and political practice of pan-German student fraternities (Burschenschaften) in Austria after 1945. The Burschenschaften’s post-war volkish (German) nationalism and interwovenness ...
Sprachatlas des Dolomitenladinischen und angrenzender Gebiete
(2012)
The fourth volume contains 215 dialect maps which embrace dialectal terminologies from the seasons to the domestic animals.
Der Rahmen der Rechtsgewohnheiten
(2009)
"The Frame of Legal Customs" ("Der Rahmen der Rechtsgewohnheiten") attempts to interchange results from two scientific disciplines, legal theory and legal history for the middle ages.
The first part describes the present ...
Die Südbahn
(2006)
The present manuscript is intended to be part I of a publication in two volumes, which deals with the historic architecture in the region of "Semmering" in southern Lower Austria from the point of view of art history, ...
Philosophische Theologie im Umbruch (II/1)
(2014)
For Philosophical Theology in Transition is the Challenge of Fideism and Atheism very important, because they are both against a Ungodly God.
Die vielsprachige Seele Kakaniens
(2012)
In the last few decades, the discipline of Translation Studies has been characterized by a considerable increase of interdisciplinary approaches which both helped to sharpen its profiling and to promote its multilayered ...
Die gewöhnliche Gebrauchskeramik vom Magdalensberg
(1989)
Excavations on the Magdalensberg in Carinthia, Southern Austria brought to light a huge amount of common wares that have to be divided for study. No parameters to be followed have as yet been fixed and therefore in a first ...
H. G. Adler (1910-1988)
(2009)
The result of my extensive research project is the first comprehensive study on the life and work of H. G. Adler, an important member of the circle around Elias and Veza Canetti, Erich Fried etc., whose ground-breaking ...
Trauerspiele mit Gesang und Tanz
(2010)
From 1890 until 1938 in Vienna, Jewish theatre was a lively and fascinating part of the theatrical scene. Yiddish operettas and melodramas, serious plays and so-called Jargonschwänke were staged. The widespread texts of ...
Diskursverweigerung und Gewalt
(2011)
This book is about political conflict in the First Austrian Republic, in a region which can be aptly described as having been a focal point of social and political antagonism in the times under consideration. Its main ...
Terrorismus
(2009)
"Terrorism. 9/11 in Context" is an anthology of thematic priorities that aims to establish a better understanding of the complexities of terrorism aside from one-dimensional characterisations in media and politics.
The ...
"... allerlei für die Nationalbibliothek zu ergattern..."
(2006)
When Austria was annexed by Hitler Germany in March 1938, the National Library in Vienna was not only the biggest scientific library in the country, it was now the third largest in the German Reich. Its status among and ...
Briefwechsel 1907-1925
(2010)
The letters between Sigmund Freud and Karl Abraham constitute one of the most important correspondences of Freud. Karl Abraham was an important and influential early member of Freud's inner circle of trusted colleagues. ...
Arthur Schnitzler »Das Zeitlose ist von kürzester Dauer.« , Band 1 : Interviews, Meinungen und Proteste (1891–1931)
(2023)
The first volume contains almost 90 documented interviews with Arthur Schnitzler. The second volume includes his public expressions of opinion and letters to the editor. Together, they create a 'public biography' of ...
Hofdamen
(2005)
This study is a first attempt to examine the part of women in the social networking at the court. My starting point is the thesis, that only a new phrasing of the concept of the distinction between "public" and "privacy" ...
Die Lebenszeugnisse Oswalds von Wolkenstein, Band 4
(2011)
The Tyrolean knight Oswald von Wolkenstein (ca 1376 - 1445) is considered to be the most important German poet and composer of the Late Middle Ages. Besides his songs and compositions more than 1000 documents bear evidence ...
Regesten zur Geschichte der Juden in Österreich im Mittelalter, Band 2
(2010)
A remarkably high number of medieval sources on the history of Jews can be found in Austria. This huge amount of sources provides information on the economic, legal and personal situation of the Jews as well as on the ...
Chaostheorie und Literaturwissenschaft
(2008)
This book presents the development and present status of adaptions of chaos theory for literary studies. Furthermore the integration of these methodological approaches into a discipline that is oriented towards cultural ...
Regesten Kaiser Friedrichs III. (1440-1493)
(2012)
As a result of the death of Duke Charles the Bold of Burgundy and the marriage of his only daughter Mary to Maximilian, the heir of Emperor Frederick III, the economically and culturally prospering lands of Flanders and ...
Vergangenheit, die nicht vergeht
(2010)
The publication entitled "Vergangenheit, die nicht vergeht. Das Gedächtnis der Shoah in Frankreich seit 1945 im Medium Film" (A past, that doesn't pass. Holocaust Memory in France since 1945 in the Media Film) explores the ...
Geschichte der italienischen Literatur in Österreich
(2012)
The present monograph focuses on the history of Italian literature and language in Austria's Habsburg past, covering the period from the Peace of Campoformido between Napoleon and Francis II in 1797 to the end of the ...
Acht Geschichten über die Integrationsgeschichte
(2011)
European integration represents a historically unprecedented and new form of a continent's peaceful unification. Therefore, historiography needs innovative theoretical concepts to illustrate this process appropriately; at ...
Österreichische Architekten in Bulgarien
(2001)
The authors have taken as target of the research project to draw up a picture of the architectural influences and the heritage of the Danubian Monarchy in Bulgaria at the turn of the century. On this way one unknown site ...
Sprachatlas des Dolomitenladinischen und angrenzender Gebiete
(2012)
The volumes 6 contains a general index to the 1066 dialect maps of the volumes 1-5.
Robert Neumann: Mit eigener Feder
(2013)
Robert Neumann (1897–1957, Austrian exiled author and Vicepresidet of the PEN International, was even a disputatious antifascist political writer. His essays, his letters and biograpical documents give a vivid portrait of ...
Adaptive Reuse
(2017)
The present volume explores a specific aspect of creativity in South Asian systems of knowledge, literature and rituals. Under the heading of “adaptive reuse,” it discusses the relationship between innovation and perpetuation ...
How Generations Remember
(2016)
This book provides a profound insight into post-war Mostar, and the memories of three generations of this Bosnian-Herzegovinian city. Drawing on several years of ethnographic fieldwork, it offers a vivid account of how ...
Schmerzengeld für Schock- und Trauerschäden
(2009)
The doctoral thesis is a comparing study of the Austrian, German, Swiss, England and French tort law,
also contains the Principles of the European Group of tort law and handle four major questions:
(1) Who are the close ...
Im städtischen Bad vor 500 Jahren
(2014)
Cultural, social and economic history of municipal steam baths in early modern times
Balkan und Naher Osten
(2011)
The Balkans and the Near East share millennia of a shared history, which stretches from sedentarization in early history to the 20th century. In the Neolithic period, in Mesopotamia and in the Balkans basic techniques and ...
Botschafter Europas
(2004)
In 1923 Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi, offspring of an aristocratic family in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, published the book Paneuropa which was soon translated into almost all important languages of the world. A ...
Eigentum und Geschlecht
(2012)
This book examines the financial circumstances of Jewish men and women in Vienna from the turn of the century to 1938, focusing on gender as a social category. The central issue is the extent to which the amount and, above ...
Das Wiener Klavier bis 1850
(2008)
The presented book, the amplified proceedings of the symposium "Das Wiener Klavier 1850", held at Neue Burg (Vienna) in 2003 combines as regards content recent organological and biographical research, answers questions ...
Erzählen vom Leben im 20. Jahrhundert
(2013)
Biographic narratives are shaped by many factors. The shape old people finally select for the retrospective view of their lives, is for example influenced by the current narrative situation, by the individual's perception ...
biografiA. Lexikon österreichischer Frauen, Band 2
(2016)
biografiA gives on the basis of selected 6.367 biographies an overview over many centuries of austrian female history and various insights into the cultural and social contexts of the concerned eras both for experts and ...
Gefangenschaft, Revolution, Heimkehr
(2003)
Up to the 1980s prisoners of war were hardly even mentioned in military history. Only in recent years have scientists acknowledged the importance of this topic. For their investigations some of them chose the First World ...
Sportdiktatur
(2008)
The intention of the book is to reduce the enormous Austrian research deficiency concerning the reappraisal of the sporting life during the NS-era. Therefore it will depict all sportive areas on the "Austrian" territory ...
Eine Geschichte der Neugier
(2002)
My book deals for the first time comprehensively with the techniques (and methodologies) of socio-cultural research in pre-modern societies. Contrary to prevailing opinion, it holds that some form of empirical research in ...
Germans and Hungarians in Southeast Europe
(2016)
Der zeiltiche Fokus liegt vor allem auf der postsozialistischen Zeit ab 1989/90 bis etwa 2012; die räumliche Ausdehnung der Forschungen schliesst Ungarn (Herberge- Patronagestaat), Slowenien, Kroatien (Slawonien), Serbien ...
Kaiser Ferdinand III. (1608–1657)
(2012)
Ferdinand III. inherited the Thirty Years' war from its father, Ferdinand II.. In the centre of his reign, the war ended in 1648 with the Peace of Westphalia and thereby the long time of the confessional arguments going ...
Geschichte der venezianischen Malerei, Band 3
(2013)
Giorgione remains the central figure in the scientific discussion dealing with Venetian painting of the age, and accordingly the amount of literature on him is exuberant. The state of scientific discussion which harks back ...
Der Filmkomponist Max Steiner (1888-1971)
(2012)
This is the first monograph about the Austro-American Composer Max Steiner (1888-1971), one of the great pioneers of film music in the so-called Golden Age of Hollywood. In the early 1930ies with his visionary energy he ...
On the Way to the (Un)Known?
(2022)
Twenty-two authors from various countries analyze travelogues on the Ottoman Empire between the fifteenth and the nineteenth centuries. The volume discusses questions of perceptions of "otherness", the circulation of ...
Education for Children with Disabilities in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
(2017)
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book presents insights into the lived realities of children with disabilities in primary schools in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. It examines specific cultural and societal ...
Fontes epigraphici religionum Celticarum antiquarum. I: Provincia Noricum. Fasciculus 1 und 2
(2020-02)
Thoroughly illustrated edition, translation and commentary of all religious Norican inscriptions with a probably Celtic-speaking background, together with an in-depth linguistic and historical discussion of the single ...
Fontes epigraphici religionum Celticarum antiquarum. I: Provincia Noricum. Fasciculus 1 und 2
(2020-02)
Thoroughly illustrated edition, translation and commentary of all religious Norican inscriptions with a probably Celtic-speaking background, together with an in-depth linguistic and historical discussion of the single ...
Kooperation und Geheimnisschutz bei Beweisschwierigkeiten im Zivilprozess
(2020-02)
The work shows the connection between the duties of cooperation and the interest in secrecy. The concept of trade secrets is examined in more detail and discussed as the limit of the civil procedural obligation to cooperate. ...
Bildspuren - Sprachspuren
(2020)
Address in Portuguese and Spanish
(2020)
The volume provides the first systematic comparative approach to the history of forms of address in Portuguese and Spanish—two intimately related languages sharing historical, political and geographic contexts. Including ...
Tra i libri di Isacco Argiro
(2020)
Cultures of Eschatology Volume 1: Empires and Scriptural Authorities in Medieval Christian, Islamic and Buddhist Communities
(2020)
The belief in the Last Things has an integral place in Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism. The two volumes want to explain how eschatological thought influenced and factored into the political and religious perception and ...
Sometimes Hard, Usually Soft
(2020)
As an urgent response to the continually growing flood of information to which libraries, search engines, and cultural institutions are exposed, Data Loam combines radical approaches and strategies from the international ...
Der grüne Kakadu
(2020)
Conceptual Joining
(2021)
This book explores experimental approaches to the design and construction of wooden structures in architecture, while presenting the results of an artistic research project. By using digital tools, experimental formations ...
Grundsicherung weiterdenken
(2021)
Aus der Nacht in den Tag
(2022)
Dressaged Animality
(2024)
The book combines Marxist analysis with feminist and posthumanist methodology to analyse the relation between ‘societal dressage’ and ‘bodily animality’ that humans and animals share. Within this original theoretical ...
Die Register Innocenz’ III. 13. Jahrgang (1210/1211). Texte und Indices
(2015)
The volume is containing the critical edition of 207 letters of pope Innocent III’ addressed to recipients all over Europe and in the Middle East which were entered into the chancery registers of the 13th year of pontificate ...
Hanghaus 2 in Ephesos. Die Wohneinheit 7, Textband 2
(2016)
Contextual analysis of the architecture, the features and the finds of the Imperial Period dwelling WE 7 of Terrace House 2 in Ephesos.
Thunau am Kamp - Das frühmittelalterliche Gräberfeld auf der Oberen Holzwiese
(2018-11)
The burial ground on the Obere Holzwiese consists of 215 burials and is therefore by far the largest uncovered burial site of Carolingian times in Lower Austria north of the Danube. It belonged to a fortified central ...
Die Akademien der Wissenschaften in Zentraleuropa im Kalten Krieg
(2018)
During the Cold War, the systemic rivalry between East and West was also carried out in the field of scholarship. This volume examines the Academies of Sciences in Central Europe on either side of the Iron Curtain in the ...
Presbeia Theotokou
(2015)
The present book is dedicated to one main aspect of the Marian cult: it investigates the historical process that made Mary, mother of Jesus, the most prominent intercessor across the Byzantine Empire at the end of Iconoclasm ...
Searching for Gold
(2024)
This volume focusses on Bronze Age mining in the Balkan regions, presented in the regional and inter-regional context. The archaeological excavations on the Ada Tepe located in the Bulgarian Rhodopes are the point of ...
Byzantinische Kleinfunde aus Ephesos, Katalog- und Tafelband
(2020-02)
The material legacy of Byzantine period from Ephesos includes, in addition to jewellery and dress accessories, liturgical artefacts, various instruments, tools and weapons, as well as small-scale implements including ...
Die Canabae von Carnuntum – eine Modellstudie der Erforschung römischer Lagervorstädte
(2013)
Due to decades of systematic work in aerial archaeology a preliminary master plan of the ancient remains of Roman Carnuntum, that remain hidden beneath the ground, could be made. This plan shows archaeological structures ...
Brandbestattungen von der mittleren Donau bis zur Ägäis zwischen 1300 und 750 v. Chr.
(2013)
In these conference proceedings particular attention is paid to the performance of burials and burial rites between 1300 and 750 BC. A change in burial customs took place in large parts of central Europe during the 13th ...
Das linearbandkeramische Gräberfeld von Kleinhadersdorf
(2015)
The publication gives a complete documentation of the old rescue excavations by Josef Bayer and Viktor Lebzelter in 1931 as well as of the systematic investigations of the Neolithic cemetery under the direction of ...
Das Wiener Hetzamphitheater (1755-1796)
(2024)
The “Wiener Hetzamphitheater” (1755-1796) was the largest theater in Vienna until it burned down. The study is dedicated to a neglected chapter of local and European theater history by focusing on the staged animal fights. ...
Ludwig Senfl: Magnificat-Vertonungen, Messordinarien = Ludwig Senfl: Magnificat Settings, Mass Ordinaries
(2025)
The fifth volume of the New Senfl Edition (NSE) provides the first scholarly editions of Senfl's newly dated Magnificat settings (composed around 1523), whose transmission exclusively in central Germany is presumably due ...
Protokolle des Ministerrates der Zweiten Republik der Republik Österreich, Kabinett Leopold Figl I, Band 7 (9. September 1947 bis 18. November 1947)
(2016-11)
The Edition of the Minutes of the Cabinet Meetings Figl I constitutes an important contribution to research on the early years of Austria’s Second Republic and the reconstruction and renewal of the state and its political ...
Monumenta
(2014)
Messenia was one of the core areas of the Middle and Late Helladic culture in Greece. Based on a catalogue of 57 sites, which comprises about 240 tombs, their topographic situation, architectural design and the offerings ...
Hanghaus 2 in Ephesos. Die Wohneinheit 6. Textband II
(2014-05)
The Imperial Period Dwelling WE 6 of Terrace House 2 in Ephesus. Living invironment of a family of the town elite.
Das Mausoleum von Belevi
(2017)
The volume presents the concluding architectural and structural research on this early Hellenistic tomb of a Diadochus, a monumental two-story construction with innovative design of building structure, façades and a ...
Die Register Innocenz’ III. 14. Jahrgang (1211/1212). Texte und Indices
(2018)
The fourteenth volume of the critical edition of pope Innocent III’s chancery-registers is containing 161 letters addressed to recipients all over Europe and in the Middle East. In this year of the pontificate, no geographical ...
Hitler – Beneš – Tito
(2013-10)
Communities of conflict within Austrian-Hungary (especially in Bohemian and south Slav lands); the domestic and foreign policies of Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia in the interwar-period; the Nazi policies of conquest and ...
05 Schomerus and his field research on Tamil recitation; Indian Recordings (Schomerus 1929)
(2019-08)
The CD publication features 30 sound recordings, chiefly recitations of classical Tamil poetry, made by Hilko Wiardo Schomerus in Madras (Chennai) in 1929. What is new and special about this release is the publication of ...
Der sogenannte Hadrianstempel an der Kuretenstraße, Planmappe
(2018-02)
The publication on the so-called „Temple of Hadrian" on Curetes' Street in Ephesos is the first comprehensive publication of this important monument from the Roman Imperial period in Asia Minor. Based on new research on ...
Protokolle des Ministerrates der Zweiten Republik der Republik Österreich, Kabinett Leopold Figl I, Band 9 (27. Jänner 1948 bis 23. März 1948)
(2016-08)
The Edition of the Minutes of the Cabinet Meetings Figl I constitutes an important contribution to research on the early years of Austria’s Second Republic and the reconstruction and renewal of the state and its political ...
Antike Malerei zwischen Lokalstil und Zeitstil, Textband
(2015)
Under the main theme “Ancient Painting between Local Style and Period Style”, 150 specialists from 16 nations dedicated themselves in September 2010 in Ephesus to the characteristics of period and/or local styles in ancient ...
Archaische Siedlungsbefunde in Ephesos, Katalog- und Tafelband
(2019-12)
The study deals in a holistic manner with the archaic settlement residuals (stratigraphy, architectural remains, pottery and small finds) from excavations underneath the Tetragonos-Agora at Ephesos. The findings from other ...
Tell Abu al-Kharaz in the Jordan Valley
(2014)
Tell city of Abu al-Kharaz is situated in the central Transjordanian Jordan Valley and excavated by the author from 1989 to 2012. The town flourished in the Early Bronze Age, and after an occupational lacuna of more than ...
The Maya Temple-Palace of Santa Rosa Xtampak, Mexico
(2017-09)
The publication presents a detailed architectural documentation and reconstruction of the impressive 1,275-years-old, three-story temple-palace of Santa Rosa Xtampak in Campeche, Mexico. The analysis of the 17 m high 50-room ...