Szabo, Franz
Dr. Franz Szabo
Professor
Director,
The Wirth Institute for Austrian and Central European Studies
Ph.D. (History), University of Alberta (1976)
M.A. (History), University of Alberta (1970)
B.A. (Honours History), University of Montréal
(Loyola College) (1968)
Arts 300-B
University of Alberta
Edmonton AB T6G 2H4
Tel. (780) 492-9408
| Expertise & Research Interests |
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Enlightened Absolutism in the Habsburg Monarchy (1740-1792)
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Seven Years War
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Cultural History of Central Europe (1500-present)
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Austrian Immigration to
| Academic Recognition |
Awarded the Order of Merit for Scholarship and the Arts, First Class, by the Republic of Austria
Winner of the Austrian Cultural Institute Prize, Austrian Cultural Institute (N.Y.) and Center for Austrian Studies University of Minnesota, for best book in Austrian Studies, 1996.
Winner of Carleton University Faculty of Arts Teaching Award, 1995.
Winner of the Barbara Jelavich Prize, American Association for the Advacement of Slavic Studies, for best book in the areas of Russian, Eurasian, East European and Habsburg studies, 1995.
| Publications |
MONOGRAPHS
The Seven Years War in Europe, 1756-1763 (Harlow:Pearson Longman, 2007)
Kaunitz and enlightened absolutism, 1753-1780 (Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, 1994)
CATALOGUE
Legacy of Empire: Treasures of the University of Alberta's Central European Library Collection [author of catalogue and curator of exhibition of the same name]. (Edmonton: University of Alberta Libraries, 2008)
OTHER BOOKS
Co-editor [with Grete Klingenstein], Staatskanzler Wenzel Anton von Kaunitz-Rietberg, 1711-1794: Neue Perspektiven zu Politik und Kultur der europäischen Aufklärung [with Grete Klingenstein] (Graz, Esztergom, Paris, N.Y.: Andreas Schnider Verlagsatelier, 1996)
Co-editor [with Frederick C. Engelmann and Manfred Prokop], A History of the Austrian Migration to Canada (Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1996)
Editor, Austrian Immigration to Canada: Selected Essays (Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1996).
Co-editor [with Antal Szántay and István György Tóth], Politics and Culture in the Age of Joseph II (Budapest: Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2005).
Co-editor [with Charles Ingrao], The Germans and the East (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2007)
Co-editor [with Gary B. Cohen], Building Baroque Cities in Austria and Europe (Oxford & New York: Berghahn Books, 2007)
Co-editor [with Howard Louthan and Gary B. Cohen], Diversity and Dissent: Negotiating Religious Difference in Central Europe, 1500-1800 (Oxford & New York: Berghahn Books, 2011)
SELECT OTHER PUBLICATIONS
“Der Beethoven-Fries und seine Beziehung zum Werk von Gustav Klimt,” in Stephan Koja, ed., _Gustav Klimt: Der Beethoven-Fries und die Kontroverse um die Freiheit der Kunst Art_ (Munich, Berlin, London, N.Y.: Prestel Verlag, 2006), pp. 139-152.
“Favorit, Premierminister oder ‘drittes Staatsoberhaupt’? Der Fall des Staatskanzlers Wenzel Anton Kaunitz,” in: Michael Kaiser and Andreas Pecar, eds., Der Zweite Mann im Staat: Oberste Amtsträger und Favoriten im Umkreis der Reichsfürsten in der Frühen Neuzeit (Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2003), pp. 345-362.
"Austrian First Impressions of Ethnic Relations in Galicia: The Case of Governor Anton Pergen," in Israel Bartal and Antony Polonsky, eds., POLIN: Studies in Polish Jewry Vol.XII: Focusing on Galicia: Jews, Poles and Ukrainians, 1772-1918 (London & Portland, Oregon: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 1999), pp. 49-60.
"Competing Visions of Enlightened Absolutism. Security and Economic Development in the Reform Priorities of the Habsburg Monarchy after the Seven Years War," in: János Kalmár, ed., Miscellanea fontium historiae Europaeae: Emlékkönyv H. Balázs Éva történészprofesszor 80. születésnapjára (Budapest: ELTE Bölcsészettudományi Kar, 1997), pp.191-200.
"Ambivalez der Aufklärungspolitik in der Habsburgermonarchie unter Joseph II. und Leopold II.," in Gerhard Ammerer and Hanns Haas, eds., Ambivalenzen der Aufklärung: Festschrift für Ernst Wangermann (Vienna: Verlag für Geschichte und Politik; Munich: R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 1997), pp. 21-32.
"The Cultural Transformation of the Habsburg Monarchy in the Age of Metastasio, 1730-1780," Studies in Music Vol. XVI (1997), 1-24.
"Fürst Kaunitz und die Anfänge des Josephinismus," in Bundesministerium für Wissenschaft und Forschung and Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, eds., Österreich im Europa der Aufklärung: Kontinuität und Zäsur in Europa zur Zeit Maria Theresias und Josephs II. 2 Volumes (Vienna: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1985), Vol. I, pp. 525-545.
"Unwanted Navy: Habsburg Naval Armaments under Maria Theresia," Austrian History Yearbook Vol. XVII-XVIII (1981-1982), pp. 29-53.
"Intorno alle origini del giuseppinismo: motivi economico-sociali e aspetti ideologici," Società e storia No. 4 (1979), pp. 155-174.
"Staatskanzler Fürst Kaunitz und die Aufklärungspolitik Österreichs," in Walter Koschatzky, ed., Maria Theresia und Ihre Zeit: Eine Darstellung der Epoche von 1740-1780 aus Anlaß der 200. Wiederkehr des Todestages der Kaiserin (Salzburg and Vienna: Residenz Verlag, 1979), pp. 40-45.
“Changing Perspectives on the ‘Revolutionary Emperor’: Joseph II Biographies since 1790,” Journal of Modern History LXXXIII, (March, 2011)
“The Center and the Periphery: Echoes of the Diplomatic Revolution in the Administration of the Habsburg Monarchy, 1753-1773,” in Marija Wakounig, Wolfgang Mueller and Michael Portmann,eds., Nation, Nationalitäten und Nationalismus im östlichen Europa: Festschrift für Arnold Suppan zum 65. Geburtstag (Vienna: LIT Verlag, 2010), pp.473-490.
“Perspective from the Pinnacle: State Chancellor Kaunitz on Nobility in the Habsburg Monarchy,” in Gabriele Haug-Moritz, Hans Peter Hye and Marlies Raffler, eds., Adel im “langen” 18. Jahrhundert (Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences, 2009), pp. 239-260.