Curriculum vitae

• Born 1944 in Vienna
• 1966 VB I/d and I/b at the Institute for Economic and Social History at the University of Vienna
• 1969 Doctorate and VB I/a
• 1972 Univ.-Ass.
• 1978 Habilitation
• 1986 Associate Professor of Economic and Social History of the Modern Era
• 2000 Univ.-Pprof.
• 2003 Retired

Representative in the Academic Senate, several years of activity in numerous commissions and as head of the department.

Publications

List of publication (pdf) 

Research interests

• Research on the history of the nobility and the bourgeoisie in the Habsburg Monarchy,
• social underclasses and social exclusion and discipline (penitentiaries and workhouses),
• the history of the city,
• on the creation of identity and ideology in the context of the culture of remembrance (anniversaries, memorial days, festivals)
• and on architecture and society.
• Many years of experience in teacher training (journal ‘Historische Sozialkunde’; political education).