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Michael Gehler (born 15 January 1962 in
Innsbruck Innsbruck (; ) is the capital of Tyrol (federal state), Tyrol and the List of cities and towns in Austria, fifth-largest city in Austria. On the Inn (river), River Inn, at its junction with the Wipptal, Wipp Valley, which provides access to the ...
) is an Austrian historian. He has been teaching at the German
University of Hildesheim The University of Hildesheim (in German ''Universität Hildesheim'') is a public university located in Hildesheim, in the German state of Lower Saxony. History Alfeld University of Education (Pädagogische Hochschule Alfeld) – University o ...
since 2006.


Academic career

Michael Gehler graduated from high school in Neustadt near
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/
Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen States of Germany, constituent states have a total popu ...
, and studied history and German literature at the Leopold-Franzens-University Innsbruck/
Austria Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine Federal states of Austria, states, of which the capital Vienna is the List of largest cities in Aust ...
. From 1992 to 1996 he was a Research Fellow of the Fund for the Promotion of Scientific Research (FWF) Vienna. In 1999 Gehler habilitated at the University of Innsbruck and worked there until 2006 as an associate professor at the Institute for Contemporary History. In 2001/02 he was an
Alexander von Humboldt fellow The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation () is a foundation that promotes international academic cooperation between scientists and scholars from Germany and abroad. Established by the government of the Federal Republic of Germany, it is funded by th ...
. Between 2004 and 2005 Gehler was also a visiting professor at the universities of
Rostock Rostock (; Polabian language, Polabian: ''Roztoc''), officially the Hanseatic and University City of Rostock (), is the largest city in the German States of Germany, state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and lies in the Mecklenburgian part of the sta ...
(2004),
Salzburg Salzburg is the List of cities and towns in Austria, fourth-largest city in Austria. In 2020 its population was 156,852. The city lies on the Salzach, Salzach River, near the border with Germany and at the foot of the Austrian Alps, Alps moun ...
(2004/05) and
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(2005). Since 2006 he has been a professor and head of the Institute of History at the University of Hildesheim. Since 2008 Gehler has been a corresponding member of the Philosophical-Historical Class of the
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. The
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awarded him a " Jean Monnet Chair" for European history, which was followed in 2011 and 2016 by the re-awarding of a Jean Monnet ad personam chair. In 2012, Gehler declined a call to the University of Innsbruck for a professorship in
contemporary history Contemporary history, in English-language historiography, is a subset of modern history that describes the historical period from about 1945 to the present. In the social sciences, contemporary history is also continuous with, and related t ...
. In 2013 he accepted a call to head the Institute for Modern and Contemporary History Research (INZ) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna while maintaining his professorship at the University of Hildesheim. In March 2017 Gehler terminated his duties with the INZ and concentrated on Hildesheim university.


Honors and awards

Michael Gehler received numerous awards and honors. So he got from Austrian and German institutions: * 1988 the
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Memorial Prize, * 1994 the Dr.
Wilfried Haslauer Wilfried Haslauer (born 3 May 1956) is an Austrian politician (ÖVP) and lawyer. He has been governor of Salzburg State since 19 June 2013. His father Wilfried Haslauer senior was governor of Salzburg State from 1977 to 1989. Wilfried Haslauer i ...
Research Award in Salzburg, * 1994 the Theodor Körner Foundation Prize for the Promotion of Science and Art, * 1996 the Cardinal Innitzer Promotion Prize for Social and Economic Sciences. * 2001 the award of the state capital (=Innsbruck) for scientific research at the University of Innsbruck, * 2004 the
Karl von Vogelsang Karl Freiherr von Vogelsang (3 September 1818 – 8 November 1890), a journalist, politician and Catholic social reformer, was one of the mentors of the Christian Social movement in Austria-Hungary. Life He was born in Liegnitz in the Sil ...
State Prize for History of Social Sciences Vienna, * 2010 the Minerva Medal of the University of Hildesheim Foundation, * 2011 the Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art, * 2012 the silver cross-bracteat of the city of
Hildesheim Hildesheim (; or ; ) is a city in Lower Saxony, in north-central Germany with 101,693 inhabitants. It is in the district of Hildesheim (district), Hildesheim, about southeast of Hanover on the banks of the Innerste River, a small tributary of t ...
for the commitment to initiate and conduct lectures on European policy education, * 2014 the price of the University Society Hildesheim e.V. for teachers as "award for special commitment and outstanding achievements in the design of an open educational landscape between university and public".


Scientific profile

Michael Gehler works on Austrian, German and European contemporary history. The main areas of research are national and regional history, with special attention to the
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issue, and
international relations International relations (IR, and also referred to as international studies, international politics, or international affairs) is an academic discipline. In a broader sense, the study of IR, in addition to multilateral relations, concerns al ...
, with special attention to
European integration European integration is the process of political, legal, social, regional and economic integration of states wholly or partially in Europe, or nearby. European integration has primarily but not exclusively come about through the European Union ...
. Gehler has a wide-ranging scientific network that goes far beyond that of colleagues in professors and includes both young researchers and living personalities of contemporary history (civil servants, diplomats, politicians). Gehler is considered a committed mediator of scientific content in public and teaching.e.g. Europe talks (= public lectures organized by Gehler, with links to Youtube) https://www.uni-hildesheim.de/fb1/institute/geschichte/erasmus-und-europagespraeche/europa-gespraeche/ Gehler's works have increasingly been published in English.


Works in German

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Works


Monographs

* Three Germanies. West Germany, East Germany and the Berlin Republic (2011 and 2020). * From Saint-Germain to Lisbon: Austria's long road from disintegrated to united Europe 1919–2009. Vienna 2020.


Edited

* EU–China. Global Players in a Complex World. Co-ed. by Xuewu Gu and Andreas Schimmelpfennig. Hildesheim 2012. * The Revolutions of 1989. Co-ed. by Wolfgang Mueller and Arnold Suppan. Vienna 2015. * Populism, populists, and the crisis of political parties: A comparison of Italy, Austria, and Germany 1990–2015. Co-ed. by Günther Pallaver and Maurizio Cau. Bologna: Società Editrice il Mulino, 2018. * Short-term Empires in World History (International Conference). Co-ed. by Robert Rollinger and Julian Degen. Wiesbaden, 2020 (https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-29435-9).


External links


Page of Michael Gehler at University of Hildesheim

Michael Gehler curriculum vitae at Institut für Neuzeit- und Zeitgeschichtsforschung, Wien
(as for late 2014)
Homepage of Michael Gehler
(as for 2011, not updated) * "Europe talks" (= public lectures organized by Gehler, with links to YouTube) https://www.uni-hildesheim.de/fb1/institute/geschichte/erasmus-und-europagespraeche/europa-gespraeche/ *


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gehler, Michael 1962 births Writers from Innsbruck Living people 20th-century Austrian historians 21st-century Austrian historians