The Nationalization of Scientific Knowledge in the Habsburg Empire, 1848-1918

MITCHELL G. ASH Professor of Modern History, Head, Working Group in History of Science, and Speaker, PhD Program 'The Sciences in Historical, Philosophical and Cultural Contexts,' University of Vienna, Austria. Member, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. Publications include: Forced Migration and Scientific Change (edited with A. Sollner, 1996); German Universities Past and Future: Crisis or Renewal? (sole editor, 1997); Geisteswissenschaften im Nationalsozialismus. Das Beispiel der Universitat Wien (Humanities under Nazism: The Case of the University of Vienna. Edited with Wolfram Nies and Ramon Pils) (2010).
JAN SURMAN PhD student at the Department of History, University of Vienna, Austria. He worked at the PhD Program, 'The Sciences in Historical Context' at the University of Vienna and was visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for History of Science (Berlin), the Center for Austrian Studies, University of Minnesota, the Institute for the History of Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Warsaw), and the Centre for the History of Sciences and Humanities (Prague). Publications include: Dwa zycia Ludwika Gumplowicza. Wybor tekstow (edited with Gerald Mozetic, 2010).