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x ♦  Universities in Imperial Austria, 1848–1918 My particular thanks also go to Peter Goller from Innsbruck for provid- ing me with access to the Tyrolean scholarly past, and to Kurt Mühlberger from Vienna for generously providing me with materials about scholars at the philosophical faculty of the University of Vienna. I thank Gerald Angermann-Mozetič from Graz for continuous support over the years. Parts of this work have been presented in Boston, Budapest, Cracow, Darmstadt, Graz, L’viv, Prague, Sofia, Vienna, and Warsaw, and I want to thank all participants for their valuable comments, in particular my colleagues and faculty members from the Initiativkolleg “The Sciences in Historical Context” and the Doktoratskolleg “Austrian Galicia and Its Multicultural Heritage” (as well as the associated fellows Philipp Hofeneder and Börries Kuzmany) in Vienna, the Institute for History of Science in Warsaw, and the Leibniz Graduate School in Marburg. I am thankful to my colleagues in Marburg and at the working group for the history of science in Frankfurt am Main for stimulating talks and debates that helped clarify my ideas while I was writing the final version of the manuscript. I am also greatly indebted to the many archivists and librarians I continuously harassed, who allowed me to overcome my time constraints. My particular thanks go to Mitchell G. Ash, Deborah Coen, Gary Cohen, Matthew Konieczny, and Soňa Štrbáňová, whose generous com- ments on the manuscript helped me conceptualize and organize the present study. Moreover, Mitchell Ash’s support in recent years made this study possible in the first place. Johannes Feichtinger and Klemens Kaps supported me with their ideas and expertise, and their comments heavily influenced this text. Finally, I cannot thank my family enough for inspiring me and for always being there. I dedicate this book to my mother, who encouraged and supported me over the years but will not be here to cherish its publication.