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of the Franz Joseph Czech Academy for Science, Literature and Arts (Česká
akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění).81 Habsburg
cultural eclecticism had peaked (see figure 4).
A German Outpost in the East: Chernivtsi
Given the multiplicity of languages spoken and heard in Chernivtsi, the
choice of the language of instruction was central in petitions. The person be-
hind most of them, Constantin Tomaszczuk, was predestined to represent the
cultural variety of the city. Born of parents with a similar Bukovinian cultural
background but (according to the secondary literature) different national
allegiances, Tomaszczuk stylized the planned university as an oasis of dif-
ferent nationalities held together by one shared language, German. His plans
insisted that only “common education” (gemeinsamer Bildungsgang) could
create the “political nationality of Austrianness” (politische Nationalität des
Österreicherthums). This hinted at the direction that education should take:
“German science has the claim of universality. And only because German
education has universal standing, the non-German sons of Bukovina strive
Figure 4 Residence of the metropolitan of the Greek-Orthodox Church of the Bu-
kovina, now the main building of Chernivtsi University. (Private collection. Author
unknown.)
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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