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

by M. Ash (Editor), J. Surman (Editor)

Overview

This volume challenges the widespread belief that scientific knowledge as such is international. Employing case studies from Austria, Poland, the Czech lands, and Hungary, the authors show how scientists in the late Habsburg Monarchy simultaneously nationalized and internationalized their knowledge.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230289871
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	07/24/2012
Edition description:	2012
Pages:	258
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

TATJANA BUKLIJAS Research Fellow at the Liggins Institute, University of Auckland, New Zealand DEBORAH R. COEN Assistant Professor, Department of History, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, USA JOHANNES FEICHTINGER Senior Research Associate at the Commission for Cultural Studies and History of Theatre, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria TIBOR FRANK Professor of History and Director of the School of English and American Studies at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary MARIANNE KLEMUN Associate Professor and member of the Working Group in History of Science, Department of History and since 2006 Vice Dean of the Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies, University of Vienna, Austria GÁBOR PALLÓ Senior research fellow in the Institute for Research Organization of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary SOŇA ŠTRBÁŇOVÁ Associate Professor, Centre for the History of Sciences and Humanities, Institute for Contemporary History, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in Prague, current President of the European Science Foundation and Effective Member of the International Academy of History of Science, Prague MARIUS TURDA Reader in 20th Century Eastern and Central European Biomedicine and Deputy Director, The Centre for Health, Medicine and Society, Oxford Brookes University, UK

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations vii

Note on the Cover Illustration viii

Notes on Contributors ix

1 The Nationalization of Scientific Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Central Europe: An Introduction Mitchell G. Ash Jan Surman 1

2 Science and Its Publics: Internationality and National Languages in Central Europe Jan Surman 30

3 'Staatsnation', 'Kulturnation', 'Nationalstaat': The Role of National Politics in the Advancement of Science and Scholarship in Austria from 1848 to 1938 Johannes Feichtinger 57

4 National 'Consensus' As Culture and Practice: The Geological Survey in Vienna and the Habsburg Empire (1849-1867) Marianne Klemun 83

5 Scientific Nationalism: A Historical Approach to Nature in Late Nineteenth-Century Hungary Gábor Palló 102

6 Acts of Creation: The Eötvös Family and the Rise of Science Education in Hungary Tibor Frank 113

7 Patriotism, Nationalism and Internationalism in Czech Science: Chemists in the Czech National Revival Sona Štrbánová 138

8 Fault Lines and Borderlands: Earthquake Science in Imperial Austria Deborah R. Coen 157

9 Nationalizing Eugenics: The Hungarian Public Debate of 1910-1911 Marius Turda 183

10 The Politics of Fin-de-siècle Anatomy Tatjana Bnklijas 209

Index 245