Emil Brix (born 1956) is an Austrian diplomat and historian.
Emil Brix (born 1956) is an Austrian diplomat and historian.
Born 1956 in Vienna, he studied English and History at the University of Vienna. Starting in 1982, he worked for the Foreign Service of the Republic of Austria. From 1984 to 1986, he was a secretary of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP), and from 1986 to 1989, he worked in the office of the federal minister for science and research, Hans Tuppy.
From 1990 to 1995, he was the consul general in Kraków, and from 1995 to 1999, he was the manager of the Austrian Institute for Culture in London. Until early 2010, he was the director of the politico-cultural section of the foreign office. Between April 2010 and January 2015, Brix was the Austrian ambassador in London. On 19 January 2015, he assumed office as the Austrian ambassador in Moscow.
Brix is also the representative chairman of the Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe. He became the director of the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna in 2017. [1]
On 26 January 2009, Brix was awarded the golden medal Gloria Artis by Bogdan Zdrojewski, the Polish Minister of Culture and National Heritage, at the galleries of the International Culture Centre in Kraków. This medal is the highest award in Poland for people who rendered outstanding service to Polish culture in an artistic way or for the preservation of Polish cultural heritage.
Othmar Spann was a conservative Austrian philosopher, sociologist and economist. His radical anti-liberal and anti-socialist views, based on early 19th century Romantic ideas expressed by Adam Müller et al. and popularized in his books and lecture courses, helped antagonise political factions in Austria during the interwar years.
Erhard Busek was an Austrian politician from the Christian-conservative People's Party (ÖVP). Throughout his political career, he was widely regarded as one of the leaders of the party's liberal wing. He was coordinator of the South-Eastern Cooperative Initiative (SECI) and chairman of the Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe.
Franzobel is the pseudonym of the Austrian writer (Franz) Stefan Griebl. He was born on 1 March 1967 in Vöcklabruck. In 1997, he won the Wolfgang Weyrauch Prize and in 1998, the Kassel Literary Prize, amongst numerous other literary awards. In 2017, he won the prestigious Nicolas Born Prize and was long-listed for the German Book Prize for his novel Das Floß der Medusa. He now lives in Vienna.
Gerald Steinacher is Professor of History and Hymen Rosenberg Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. After serving at the South Tyrolean Regional Archives in Bozen, he was a Joseph A. Schumpeter Research Fellow at Harvard University during 2010-2011 and in 2009 a visiting scholar at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University. He lectured at the Universities of Innsbruck (Austria), Luzern (Switzerland) and Munich (Germany). In 2006 he was a Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies Fellow at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC.
The Austrian Association of Women Artists was founded in 1910. The VBKÖ is located at Maysedergasse 2/4, Vienna 1010, its founding headquarters. The association supports improvements to the economic and educational conditions of female artists, as well as promoting the artists themselves.
Josef Haslinger is an Austrian writer.
Gerald Stourzh is an Austrian historian who studies modern history, especially the history of North America, of Austria, of political ideas, of constitutions and especially of human rights. He taught, as a professor, at the Free University of Berlin from 1964 to 1969, and at the University of Vienna from 1969 until 1997, when he became professor emeritus.
Elisabeth von Samsonow is an Austrian artist and philosopher. She is the Professor for Philosophical and Historical Anthropology at the Kunst an der Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna. She is also a member of GEDOK Munich.
Albert Joseph Maria Defant was an Austrian meteorologist, oceanographer and climatologist. He published fundamental works on the physics of the atmosphere and ocean and is regarded as one of the founders of physical oceanography.
The German Federal Army was the military arm of the German Confederation from 1815 to 1866 whose purpose was the defence of the Confederation against external enemies. Although the Congress of Vienna in 1815 decreed the formation of the army and delimited its size and purpose, no work on its formation was begun until 1841, after the Rhine crisis brought the threat of war to Germany. Even then, only preliminary work was accomplished on troop readiness. Most work focused on the building of federal fortresses.
Dr. Emil Mayer was an Austrian photographer, lawyer, inventor, and businessperson.
Emil Fröschels was an Austrian speech and voice therapy specialist. As a laryngologist and chief speech therapist, in 1924 he introduced the term logopedics, i.e., speech therapy, into medical usage. He established the International Society of Logopedics and Phoniatrics and was a co-founder, with Karl Cornelius Rothe, of the Vienna School for Speech-Disturbed Children.
Elsa Asenijeff, was an Austrian writer and partner of Max Klinger.
Josef Ehmer was an Austrian historian and professor emeritus at the University of Vienna.
Maurus (Mor) Wilhelm (Vilmos) Willinger was an Austrian/Hungarian photographer who is best known for his portraits of actors of the early silent film era in Berlin.
Fritz Walden, real name Friedrich Drobilitsch, also Fritz Drobilitsch-Walden and Franz Drobilitsch, was an Austrian publicist, author and cultural editor as well as film, literature, music and theatre critic.
Helmut Birkhan is an Austrian philologist who is Professor Emeritus of Old High German Language and Literature and the former Managing Director of the Institute for Germanic Studies at the University of Vienna.
Michael Breisky is a former Austrian diplomat and, as a globalization critic, is the author of numerous publications on Leopold Kohr and his teaching.
Eva Cyba is an Austrian sociologist. Her research, teaching and publications focus on sociological theories of social inequality, feminist theories and women's studies, in particular women in the world of work. She is the winner of the Käthe-Leichter-Staatspreis. Her book Gender and Social Inequality is considered a fundamental work of sociological gender research.
The Liechtenstein Palace is a neoclassical palace near Maria Enzersdorf in Lower Austria, bordering Vienna. It is on the edge of the Vienna Woods. It stands opposite south of Liechtenstein Castle, the ancestral seat of and place of origin of the House of Liechtenstein, the ruling family of the Principality of Liechtenstein. Prince Johann I of Liechtenstein (1760–1836) built the neoclassical palace in Biedermeier style at the start of the 19th century as one of the princely summer residences. In the aftermath of World War II, the palace fall into ruins and has been sold by the princely family.
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