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By Gary B. Cohen

ISBN-10: 1557530874

ISBN-13: 9781557530875

The improvement of Austrian society within the 19th century was once beset via huge, immense problems, together with sharp social-class adjustments, an financial base that used to be constructing all too slowly, and, certain from so much of Western and important Europe, a multiplicity of competing ethnic and spiritual teams. in contrast backdrop, Cohen examines Austria's academic process, which he characterizes as one of many significant accomplishments of presidency and civil society less than the Habsburg Monarchy in its final a long time. by way of 1910 Austria's secondary colleges, technical schools, and universities, driven via a transforming into renowned call for and pressures from neighborhood governments and curiosity teams, enrolled possibilities of the school-aged inhabitants that approximately equaled, and occasionally handed, these in Germany. The emerging social and political festival of Austria's ethnic and non secular teams inspired the growth of schooling, and Czech and varnish nationwide teams and the Jewish and Protestant spiritual minorities benefited really from the growing to be enrollments. those widening possibilities enabled lower-middle-class or even a few working-class early life to affix the trendy informed heart sessions. simply in struggle of the advancements tested the following can one comprehend the recruitment and formation of the bureaucrats and pros who led the Austrian Republic and the neighboring states of East-Central Europe within the a long time after 1918. This examine, the 1st English-language e-book on complicated schooling within the Austrian lands throughout the 19th century, is suggested for students and scholars within the historical past of schooling, glossy social heritage, and the heritage of the Habsburg Monarchy.

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Traditionalists among the professors and in the doctors' . colleges opposed many of the changes. The reform of the philosophical faculties was particularly difficult, since those faculties had to be greatly expanded and many new academic specialties had to be added. The faculties forwarded to the ministry short lists of candidates for professorships, but the ministerial officials in Vienna made the final selections and the emperor sanctioned the appointments. During the early 1850sLeo Thun used virtually dictatorial authority to name talented new professors to the philosophical faculties as well as in medicine and law.

Nonetheless, Austria's central authorities proved un- . willing to enact any of the new plans that came forward before 1848.. The greatest impediments to educational reform disappeared with the fall of Prince Klemens von Metternich and the old government in March 1848 and the appointment of a new cabinet committed to change. "35 The Austrian university faculties won the -basic right to. govern their own intellectual and academic life at the beginning of April, and on 10 May 1848, the government decreed that the two years of "philosophical studies" be shifted from the philosophical faculties to the Gymnasien.

The Adriatjc and Car,. pathian lands had considerable population increase but only limited economi~ development in this era. and social development here was hardly comparab'te to the experience of much of Western and Central Europe during the -nineteenth century. higher education in late-nine- . teenth-:centuryAustria _experienced a great process _of growth. The share of the nineteen:- -to twenty-two-year-old population that was able to enroll as matriculated students in the Austrian universities and technical col1e'ges more than doubled between the late 1860s and_ 1910.

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