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    The city of Vienna and the University

    Map

    The interactive map offers an orientation in space. It shows the different buildings of the university through time. Besides the current city map, three historical maps of the City of Vienna from different epochs can be faded in (Wolmuet-Plan 1547, Stadtplan Steinhausen 1710, Franziszeischer Kataster 1829).
    Contents change according to the position of the time slider on the bottom of the map. Buildings, events and people of university history are located in today’s geographical surroundings, but you can also historical geographical changes in the City of Vienna.

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  • Main Topics

    Main Topics

    Split into seven main topics encompassing the 650 years of university history, you can find topics that include such subjects as the university’s deed of foundation, the 1848 revolution, denazification and open access to the university. A total of 40 topics with more than 90 articles...

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Welcome
650 plus – History of the
University of Vienna

Welcome to the website dedicated to the 650 years of University of Vienna history.

This history is presented through varied approaches via hypertextually connected content.

Topical access allows comprehensive insights with over 140 topics and articles.

Temporal and spatial references can be found on the interactive timeline and map.

 

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Current topic

100 years constitution of the Republic of Austria

On October 1, 1920, the Federal Constitutional Law of the Republic of Austria was passed. The name of the most important constitutional lawyer from the time of the First Republic is closely connected with this event: Hans Kelsen. As a consultant in 1919/20 he was an important contributor to the constitution, which is still valid in Austria today. In particular, the establishment of a constitutional jurisdiction with the authority of the Constitutional Court to overturn general legal acts, including laws, is still associated with his name.
At the Vienna Faculty of Law and State, Kelsen founded the “Vienna Legal Theory School”, the most important of which are the constitutional lawyer Adolf Julius Merkl and the international lawyer Alfred Verdroß. His school of “Pure Theory of Law” (Reine Rechtslehre) fell apart after Kelsen's departure from Vienna in 1930, not least because of anti-Semitic hostility at the faculty.

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What you can find here

Main Topics

Split into seven main topics encompassing the 650 years of university history, you can find topics that include such subjects as the university’s deed of foundation, the 1848 revolution, denazification and open access to the university. A total of 40 topics with more than 90 articles containing detailed information offer a comprehensive overview of the history of the University of Vienna.

Breaks, crises and conflicts 14 Themen
University cultures 6 Themen
Organizational structures in historical transition 10 Themen
University locations 4 Themen
Science and study 12 Themen
Actors 6 Themen
Regional – Global 5 Themen

Topics overview

Seven main topics

Breaks, crises and conflicts 14 Themen
University cultures 6 Themen
Organizational structures in historical transition 10 Themen
University locations 4 Themen
Science and study 12 Themen
Actors 6 Themen
Regional – Global 5 Themen

Persons

Persons

Numerous individuals with particular importance to the university history of Vienna are gathered in a profile database.

This database includes basic data about the individuals and their functions (e.g. rector), as well as a growing number of short biographies.

See also main topic Actors

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Images

Images

The display depot offers an image-oriented approach to the website’s contents.

You can research in it with the help of filter and search functions.

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Buildings

Buildings

This category includes important historical and current university buildings with brief information on each building’s history.
These can be located on historic and current maps of Vienna and can be contextualized with the help of additional texts via links within the website.

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Interactive approaches

Timeline

The timeline offers an orientation in time. It organizes the content of the website according to chronological aspects, thus providing an overview of the university’s history from the foundation in 1365 to the recent past. You can zoom in to different epochs in the header or with the slider on the bottom to journey through the past of the Alma Mater Rudolphina.

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Map

The interactive map offers an orientation in space. It shows the different buildings of the university through time. Besides the current city map, three historical maps of the City of Vienna from different epochs can be faded in (Wolmuet-Plan 1547, Stadtplan Steinhausen 1710, Franziszeischer Kataster 1829).
Contents change according to the position of the time slider on the bottom of the map. Buildings, events and people of university history are located in today’s geographical surroundings, but you can also historical geographical changes in the City of Vienna.

to the map