Grete Walter-Klingenstein#
Membership Number: | 4291 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
Elected: | 2016 |
Main Country of Residence: | AUSTRIA |
Homepage(s): | http://geschichte.uni-graz.at |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2000 Emeritus Professor, University of Graz.
- 1998 - 2003 Director, Commission of History, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
- 2000 - 2003 Vice-president, Austrian Science Foundation, Vienna
- 1990 - present Director of the Zinzendorf Project, Commission of Modern Austrian History, Graz-Vienna
- 1976 - 2000 Professor of Early Modern History, University of Graz, Austria
- 1964 - 1976 Lecturer ('Assistentin') at the Institute of History, University of Vienna
Fields of Scholarship
- Karl von Zinzendorf and his Europe
- Reform Era in eighteenth-century Habsburg Monarchy
- Enlightenment and religious reform
- Early modern Habsburg Monarchy
- History of nobility
- History of courts and dynasties
- Eighteenth-century International Relations
Honours and Awards
- 1996 Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
- 2001 Honorary Member, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- 1997 - 2003 Member of the 'Kuratoriums des Fonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung', Vienna
- Member of 'Lessing-Akademie', Wolfenbüttel
- Fellow, Royal Historical Society, London
- 1991 Robert A. Kann Memorial Lecturer, Centre for Austrian Studies, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA