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both the proposed scholars and the Ministry of Finance, requiring a careful
financial balancing act.
The inclusion of the Ministry of Finance in the decision-making process
was not merely symbolic but rather allowed the finance minister a direct
route to reject candidates. The list of foreign scholars not appointed for fi-
nancial reasons is quite long and includes well-qualified candidates and even
celebrities.121 In such cases, the ministry preferred younger, and cheaper,
Habsburg scholars, even if the faculties opposed them as detrimental to the
quality of the faculty.
The Ministry of Finance could also influence whether a scholar would
be granted an associate or a full professorship. The complications are visible
in the appointment of Rudolf Brotanek as an associate professor of English
philology at the German University in Prague. While the faculty proposed
two scholars from abroad as the top candidates, the ministry decided on the
third-choice Brotanek because
the . . . foreigners would with high likelihood expect instant appointment
to full professor; however, as highlighted in the subservient submission
with respect to [Alois] Pogatscher’s appointment to Graz,122 in the refill-
ing of the vacant chair of English philology only an associate professor
should be appointed, owing to the necessary savings from the appoint-
ment of [Karl] Luick to Vienna,123 on which the minister of finance made
dependent at that time the second full professorship at . . . the University
of Vienna.124
Although the direct exchange of information between the two ministries
is hardly visible to historians’ eyes—most often this was hidden behind
ominous formulations such as “mit Einvernehmen” (in agreement) and “im
kurzen Wege” (meaning brief, internal communication)—financial reasons
were the most often cited cause for not adopting a faculty’s proposal.
The relationship between universities and the ministry was for a time so
unbalanced that the faculties slowly ceased proposing a list of three scholars
in every case and began issuing so-called unico loco (i.e., single-candidate)
proposals, thus deciding for themselves who should be appointed. Indicative
of these power relations is that between 1870 and 1909, out of forty unico
loco propositions, all but four led to an appointment.125 Finally, in 1909,
the overuse of this practice led to a conflict between the medical faculty
of the German University in Prague and the ministry. The Prague medi-
cal faculty proposed unico loco an anatomist from Freiburg, Ernst Gaupp,
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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