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Introduction ♦ 11
Polonicarum (!), Hungaricarum, and Italicarum48 were planned, but the sug-
gestion of a state history encompassing local histories was soon replaced
by an Austriacarum rather than a Habsburgicarum. The introduction and
description of the objectives of the series, despite occupying several pages
in the first ten volumes, were soon removed. Nationally oriented editions
of sources appeared outside of the series, such as Augustyn Bielowski’s
six-volume Monumenta Poloniae Historica = Pomniki dziejowe Polski
(Polish historical monuments, 1863–92), which opened with documents on
Slavs in the Vistula region, and Antoni Zygmunt Helcel’s Starodawne prawa
polskiego pomniki (Monuments of old Polish laws), published from 1856 on,
envisaging an empire-transgressing space. Monumenta historiae Bohemica
(Bohemian historical monuments) (with a secondary title in Czech, Staré
paměti českých dějin [Bohemian/Czech historical monuments]) was later
published under the supervision of Anton (Antonín) Gindely in Prague
from 1865 on.
While the imperial academy was intended to synthesize the forces
concentrated in local academies, its mutation into an “Austrian” academy
proved to be an obstacle to communication. To begin with, it had different
competences than the local proto-academies (i.e., the scientific societies),
not to mention the national academies (e.g., the French and British ones). As
James E. McClellan has discussed, academies across Europe shared similar
structures, competences, and scopes.49 However, while the imperial acad-
emy was in many ways similar to other academies across Europe, the most
important proto-academies in the Habsburg monarchy were in fact struc-
tured differently, and they had different aims. Regional proto-academies
of science such as the Cracow Scientific Society (Towarzystwo Naukowe
Krakowskie) and the Patriotic Museum in Bohemia (Vaterländisches
Museum in Böhmen / Vlastenecké muzeum v Čechách, known after 1848
as the České museum [Bohemian/Czech Museum] and from 1854 as the
Museum Království českého [Museum of the Czech Kingdom])50 concen-
trated on the development of science and scholarship in their national tongues
after 1848. The Society of the Patriotic Museum in Bohemia (Gesellschaft
des vaterländischen Museums in Böhmen, established in 1818) began life
as a multicultural Bohemian institution, but under the reign of Palacký, it
soon turned to publishing predominantly on the past and present of Czechs
in Bohemia. From its inception, the Cracow Scientific Society (established
in 1815, incorporated in 1846 in Galicia) aimed to expand Polish-language
scholarship through literary research and the development of a scientific
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Universities in Imperial Austria, 1848–1918
A Social History of a Multilingual Space
- Title
- Universities in Imperial Austria, 1848–1918
- Subtitle
- A Social History of a Multilingual Space
- Author
- Jan Surman
- Publisher
- Purdue University Press
- Location
- West Lafayette
- Date
- 2019
- Language
- English
- License
- PD
- ISBN
- 978-1-55753-861-1
- Size
- 16.5 x 25.0 cm
- Pages
- 474
- Keywords
- History, Austria, Eduction System, Learning
- Categories
- Geschichte Vor 1918
Table of contents
- List of Illustrations vi
- List of Tables vii
- Acknowledgments ix
- Note on Language Use, Terminology, and Geography xi
- Abbreviations xiii
- Introduction A Biography of the Academic Space 1
- Chapter 1 Centralizing Science for the Empire 19
- Chapter 2 The Neoabsolutist Search for a Unified Space 49
- Chapterr 3 Living Out Academic Autonomy 89
- Chapter 4 German-Language Universities between Austrian and German Space 139
- Chapter 5 Habsburg Slavs and Their Spaces 175
- Chapter 6 Imperial Space and Its Identities 217
- Chapter 7 Habsburg Legacies 243
- Conclusion Paradoxes of the Central European Academic Space 267
- Appendix 1 Disciplines of Habilitation at Austrian Universities 281
- Appendix 2 Databases of Scholars at Cisleithanian Universities 285
- Notes 287
- Bibliography 383
- Index 445