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these experts normally included professors from Vienna and Habsburg
scholars teaching in the German Empire. In particular, smaller universities
resorted to these means; not only did they generally lack specialists who
could reliably judge the abilities of candidates, but outside opinions also
offered symbolic support for the candidates they were proposing.110
Finally, the faculty could vote either on the proposal or, in just a few
cases, on each of the proposed scholars, which gave all its members the
ability to alter the shape of the proposal. A majority opinion or possibly
a minority opinion (Minoritätsvotum) could include completely different
scholars, or the same scholars in a different order; in one case, a scholar
proposed primo loco (in the first place) was even proposed by the minority
to be the only scholar included (a so-called unico loco proposal).111 Each
professor, whether on the commission or not, could also propose his own
votum separatum (separate opinion), which the dean had to forward to the
ministry with his comments on the division of the votes in the faculty. Deans
also had the freedom to include their own opinions, presented in the form of
recommendations, although they rarely used this option.112
Before the proposal reached the minister of education, the provincial
government also weighed in, in most cases simply by forwarding the pro-
posal with additional reports on the moral behavior of the candidates but,
on occasion, providing decisive judgments. In some cases in the German-
language universities—especially if the chair was linked to a function in
which the provincial government was included, mostly in medicine (e.g.,
the directorship of the psychiatric hospital)—the governor’s opinion on the
proposed appointment was also included. The provincial government thus
influenced various appointments, such as that for a professor of psychiatry
in Graz,113 or the establishment of a chair in the history and theory of music
in Prague, where the provincial government argued that the records of the
Prague Conservatory needed supervision.114
The dual function of professors as academic and provincial officials
could also be detrimental. For example, Ludwig Kleinwächter’s conflict with
the provincial government following a scandal over the Tyrolean Provincial
Birth and Foundlings Institute (Tiroler Landes Gebär- und Findelanstalt)
in Innsbruck caused his dismissal from the university.115 The scandal was
probably promoted by the Catholic Church, since he was a pro-choice prac-
titioner and a known theoretician of abortion. Disciplinary procedures also
led to Kleinwächter not being taken into consideration for appointments at
other universities later on.116
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Universities in Imperial Austria, 1848–1918
A Social History of a Multilingual Space
- Titel
- Universities in Imperial Austria, 1848–1918
- Untertitel
- A Social History of a Multilingual Space
- Autor
- Jan Surman
- Verlag
- Purdue University Press
- Ort
- West Lafayette
- Datum
- 2019
- Sprache
- englisch
- Lizenz
- PD
- ISBN
- 978-1-55753-861-1
- Abmessungen
- 16.5 x 25.0 cm
- Seiten
- 474
- Schlagwörter
- History, Austria, Eduction System, Learning
- Kategorien
- Geschichte Vor 1918
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- 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