The Habsburgs in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars (1792-1815)

The research focus ‘Habsburg International’ connects the history of the Habsburg Monarchy with international history. By using varying approaches, the latter contributes to overcoming the categories of analysis shaped by the nation-state without disregarding the…

The maintenance of a permanent standing army in connection with enduring international rivalry and recurrent warfare constituted a primary task of early modern government in the Vienna-based Habsburg monarchy.

This post-doctoral thesis (Habilitation) investigates how regional assemblies (Landtage) and meetings of the Estates operated in seven countries of the Habsburg Monarchy.

The goal of the project is to compile a comprehensive collective biographical study in order to define, for the first time, the features of old Austrian parliamentarism, which has been badly neglected in research so far.

Spiegel gesellschaftlicher und politischer Umbrüche

„Netzwerke“ sind in der gegenwärtigen Diskussion und im aktuellen Denken eine geradezu omnipräsente Erscheinung. Auch die geschichtswissenschaftliche Forschung ist reich an Studien zu historischen Netzwerken, die sich auf eine breite Vielfalt unterschiedlicher…

Family and court relations in the memoirs of Countess Louise Charlotte von Schwerin (1684−1732)

The three-volume handbook summarises knowledge about the administrative consolidation of the Habsburg Monarchy in the early modern era in a structured form.

Sicherheit, Steuern und Staatsaufbau in einer osmanisch-habsburgischen Grenzregion (1792-1839)

Book Projekt: What Was the Habsburg Monarchy? 16th–20th centuries / Was war die Habsburgermonarchie? 16.–20. Jahrhundert