Helmut Reinalter
Helmut Reinalter (born November 2, 1943) is an Austrian historian and philosopher. He was professor of modern history and political philosophy at the University of Innsbruck from 1981 to 2009 and, after his retirement, is now director of the private Institute for the History of Ideas.
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Biography
Helmut Reinalter was born in Innsbruck. He passed his matura at the teacher training college in Innsbruck. From 1964 he studied history, philosophy and German language and literature at the University of Innsbruck, where he received his doctorate in 1971. His dissertation dealt with the topic Enlightenment - Absolutism - Reaction. At the same time he was editor-in-chief of the ÖH journal Signum. Subsequently, he was an assistant at the Institute of History. In 1978 he habilitated from the subject History of Modern Times and Contemporary History with the habilitation thesis Enlightened Absolutism and Revolution.
In 1981 he became professor of modern history and director of the International Research Center "Democratic Movements in Central Europe". Reinalter held visiting professorships in Aix-en-Provence, in Salzburg, Luxembourg, Kraków and at Columbia University in New York. From 1992 to 2005, he was chairman of the Scientific Commission for the Study of Freemasonry. From 1995 to 2010 Reinalter was scientific director of the Masonic Academy of the Grand Lodge of Austria, and since 1998 he has been a member of the Club of Rome, Austria Chapter. He is also a member of the Austrian PEN Club.
In 2000, after the dissolution of the aforementioned research center, he founded the private Institute for the History of Ideas.
From 2003 to 2005 he was also president of the Global Ethic Initiative Austria, since 2005 head of the Innsbruck Forum for the Scientific Promotion of the Global Ethic Project, from 2010 Dean of the Philosophical Class of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, member of numerous academies and scientific societies. In 2015 he received an honorary doctorate from IBC Cambridge for his research.
Reinalter's main focus is on political philosophy, the history of enlightenment and ideas of the modern era, social and mental history, theoretical and practical ethics, democracy research, foundations and theories of the humanities and cultural sciences, and Masonic research.
Works
- Aufgeklärter Absolutismus und Revolution. Zur Geschichte des Jakobinertums und der frühdemokratischen Bestrebungen in der Habsburger-Monarchie (1980)
- Österreich im friderizianischen Zeitalter. Zum 200. Todestag Friedrich II. von Preußen (1986)
- Die Französische Revolution und Mitteleuropa. Erscheinungsformen und Wirkungen des Jakobinismus. Seine Gesellschaftstheorien und politischen Vorstellungen (1988)
- Österreich und die Französische Revolution (1988)
- Freiheit, Gleichheit, Brüderlichkeit. Reform, Umbruch und Modernisierung in Aufklärung und Französischer Revolution (1989)
- Am Hofe Josephs II (1991)
- Die gesellschaftliche Bedeutung der Geisteswissenschaften heute (1991)
- Die Rolle der Freimaurerei und Geheimgesellschaften im 18. Jahrhundert (1995)
- Der Illuminatenorden (1776–1785/87). Ein politischer Geheimbund der Aufklärungszeit (1997)
- Ist die Aufklärung noch ein tragfähiges Prinzip? Mit einem Beitrag von Michel Foucault (2002)
- Lexikon zum Aufgeklärten Absolutismus in Europa (2005)
- Aufklärungsprozesse seit dem 18. Jahrhundert (2005)
- Die Weltverschwörer. Was Sie eigentlich alles nie erfahren sollten (2010)
- Geheimbünde in Tirol. Von der Aufklärung bis zur Französischen Revolution (2011)
- Lexikon der Geisteswissenschaften (2011; with Peter J. Brenner)
- Joseph II. Reformer auf dem Kaiserthron (2011)
- Außenseiter der Philosophie (2012; with Andreas Oberprantacher)
- Handbuch zur Geschichte der demokratischen Bewegungen in Zentraleuropa. Von der Spätaufklärung bis zur Revolution 1848/49 (2012)
- Weltethos-Gespräche (2014)
- Außenseiter der Geschichtswissenschaft (2015)
- Biographisches Lexikon der demokratischen und liberalen Bewegungen in Mitteleuropa 1770–1848/49 (2015; with Claus Oberhauser)
- Neue Perspektiven der Ideengeschichte (2015)
- Die Freimaurer (2016)
- Der aufgeklärte Mensch. Das neue Aufklärungsdenken (2016)
- Handbuch der Verschwörungstheorien (2018)
- Arnold Ruge (1802–1880). Junghegelianer, politischer Philosoph und bürgerlicher Demokrat (2020)
References
- "Reinalter, Helmut." In: Friedhelm Golücke, Verfasserlexikon zur Studenten- und Hochschulgeschichte. Köln: SH-Verlag (2004), pp. 273–74.
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- 1943 births
- Living people
- 20th-century Austrian historians
- 21st-century Austrian historians
- Chevaliers of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques
- Austrian Freemasons
- Members of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
- People from Innsbruck
- Recipients of the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class
- Theodor Körner Prize recipients
- University of Innsbruck faculty