Thomas Winkelbauer#
| Membership Number: | 3217 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2012 |
| Main Country of Residence: | AUSTRIA |
| Homepage(s): | https://geschichtsforschung.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/personen/ehemalige-mitarbeiterinnen/winkelbauer-thomas/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2010 - now Director of the Institute of Austrian Historical Research (Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung), Vienna
- 2007 - now Full Professor of Austrian History (History of the Habsburg Monarchy) at the History Department (Institut für Geschichte) at the University of Vienna
- 2007 - 2008 Head of the History Department (Institutsvorstand), University of Vienna
- 1998 - 2007 Associate Professor of Austrian History at the History Department, University of Vienna
- Winter Term 1998/99 Visiting Professor at the University of Salzburg
Fields of Scholarship
- History of the postal system of the Habsburg Monarchy, 16th-18th centuries
- Political, administrative, financial, social and cultural history of the Habsburg Monarchy (1526-1918, esp. Early Modern Period)
- History of the nobility in the Austrian and Bohemian Lands, 16th-18th centuries
- History of the modern historiography of the Habsburg Monarchy
- Administration of the estates of noble landlords in Austria and Moravia, 1600 until 1848
Honours and Awards
- 2010 elected Ordinary Member (Wirkliches Mitglied) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
- 2008 elected Ordinary Member (Ordentliches Mitglied) of the History Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences
- 2007 elected Corresponding Member (Korrespondierendes Mitglied) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
- 2006 Honorary doctor’s degree of the University of Brno (Masarykova univerzita v Brně)
- 2002 elected Member of Collegium Carolinum (Munich)
