Preis der Stadt Wien für Geisteswissenschaften or Prize of the City of Vienna for the Humanities is a prize awarded by the city of

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, awarded annually since 1947 for outstanding contributions in the

humanities Humanities are academic disciplines that study aspects of human society and culture. In the Renaissance, the term contrasted with divinity and referred to what is now called classics, the main area of secular study in universities at the t ...

. It is worth 10,000 Euros to the winner.

Award winners

The following have won the award: * 1947: Leopold Wenger * 1948: Richard Pittioni * 1949:

Friedrich Heer Friedrich Heer (10 April 191618 September 1983) was an Austrian historian born in Vienna. Early life Heer received a PhD at the University of Vienna in 1938. Even as a student, he came into conflict with pan-German historians as a staunch oppone ...

* 1950: Charles A. Gulick * 1951: Heinrich Klang * 1952:

Otto Rommel Otto is a masculine German given name and a surname. It originates as an Old High German short form (variants ''Audo'', '' Odo'', '' Udo'') of Germanic names beginning in ''aud-'', an element meaning "wealth, prosperity". The name is recorded ...

* 1953: Eduard Castle * 1954:

Robert Reininger Robert Reininger (born 20 January 1958) is a former professional tennis player from Austria. Biography Reininger, a right-handed player from Linz, was the Austrian junior champion in 1975. He followed it up with a national Under 21s title in 1976 ...

* 1955:

Viktor Kraft Victor Kraft (4 July 1880 – 3 January 1975) was an Austrian philosopher. He is best known for being a member of the Vienna Circle. Early life and education Kraft studied philosophy, geography and history at the University of Vienna. He part ...

* 1956: Fritz Novotny * 1957: Heinrich Benedikt * 1958: Kurt Donin * 1959: Etta Becker-Donner * 1960: Wilhelm Havers * 1961:

Karl Bühler Karl Ludwig Bühler (27 May 1879 – 24 October 1963) was a German psychologist and linguist. In psychology he is known for his work in gestalt psychology, and he was one of the founders of the Würzburg School of psychology. In linguistics he ...

* 1962: Josef Keil * 1963: Rudolf Egger * 1964: Michael Pfliegler * 1965: Hugo Hantsch, Karl Popper * 1966:

Otto Erich Deutsch Otto Erich Deutsch (5 September 1883 – 23 November 1967) was an Austrian musicologist. He is known for compiling the first comprehensive catalogue of Franz Schubert's compositions, first published in 1951 in English, with a revised edition pub ...

* 1967: Alfred Verdroß-Droßberg * 1968: Adolf Merkl * 1969:

Edmund Hlawka Edmund Hlawka (November 5, 1916, Bruck an der Mur, Styria – February 19, 2009) was an Austrian mathematician. He was a leading number theorist. Hlawka did most of his work at the Vienna University of Technology. He was also a visiting profes ...

* 1970: Albin Lesky * 1971: Wilhelm Mrazek * 1972: Friedrich Nowakowski * 1973: Eduard März * 1974: Heinz Politzer * 1975: Robert A. Kann * 1976: Renate Wagner-Rieger * 1977: Hermann Vetters * 1978: Stephan Verosta * 1979: Herbert Hunger * 1980:

Kurt Rothschild Kurt Wilhelm Rothschild (October 21, 1914-November 15, 2010) was a well known Austrian born economist. He lectured at the University of Glasgow (1938–1947), worked as a researcher at the Austrian Economic Research Institute (1947–1966) and was ...

* 1981: Eva Frodl-Kraft * 1982: Karl Stadler * 1983: Eduard Sekler * 1984: Adam Wandruszka * 1985: Wilhelm Weber * 1986:

Ernst Gombrich Sir Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich (; ; 30 March 1909 – 3 November 2001) was an Austrian-born art historian who, after settling in England in 1936, became a naturalised British citizen in 1947 and spent most of his working life in the United Kin ...

* 1987: Erich Heintel * 1988: Fritz Schwind * 1989: Walter Kraus * 1990: Heinrich Appelt * 1991: Erich Zöllner * 1992: Werner Hofmann * 1993: Marie Albu-Jahoda * 1994: Erika Weinzierl * 1995:

Adolf Holl Adolf Holl (13 May 1930 – 23 January 2020) was an Austrian Catholic writer and theologian. He lived in Vienna, where he was Chaplain of the University of Vienna and a lecturer in its Department of Catholic Theology Theology is the systemati ...

* 1996: Michael Mitterauer * 1997: Wendelin Schmidt-Dengler * 1998: Leopold Rosenmayr * 1999:

Norbert Leser Norbert Leser (May 31, 1933 – December 31, 2014) was an Austrian jurist, political scientist and social philosopher best known for his lifelong affiliation with, and critical work on, the Social Democratic Party of Austria and Austromarxism i ...

* 2000: Erich Streissler * 2001:

Ruth Wodak Ruth Wodak (born 12 July 1950 in London) is an Austrian linguist, who is Emeritus Distinguished Professor and Chair in Discourse Studies in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University and Professor in Linguistics ...

* 2002: Helmut Konrad * 2003: Manfried Welan * 2004: Gerald Stourzh * 2005:

Anton Pelinka Anton Pelinka (born October 14, 1941) is a professor of political science and nationalism studies at the English-speaking Central European University of Budapest. Prior to this appointment, Pelinka was a professor of political science at the Univ ...

* 2006: Christiane Spiel * 2007: Manfred Wagner * 2008:

Helga Nowotny Helga Nowotny (born 1937) is Professor emeritus of Social Studies of Science, ETH Zurich. She has held numerous leadership roles on Academic boards and public policy councils, and she has authored many publications in the social studies of science ...

* 2009: Herta Nagl * 2010: Alfred Springer * 2011: Ingrid Cella * 2012:

Oliver Rathkolb Oliver Rathkolb (born 3 November 1955 in Vienna) is an Austrian historian and professor for contemporary history at the University of Vienna. Career Rathkolb studied history and law at the University of Vienna and achieved his doctorate in 1982 ...

* 2013:

Herbert Hausmaninger Herbert may refer to: People Individuals * Herbert (musician), a pseudonym of Matthew Herbert Name * Herbert (given name) * Herbert (surname) Places Antarctica * Herbert Mountains, Coats Land * Herbert Sound, Graham Land Australia * Herbert, ...

* 2014: Konrad Paul Liessmann * 2015:

Andre Gingrich Andre Gingrich (born 12 September 1952) is an Austrian Ethnology, ethnologist and Cultural anthropology, anthropologist, member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, director of the Institute for Social Anthropology of the Austrian Academy of Scie ...

* 2016:

Wolfgang Lutz Wolfgang Lutz (born 10 December 1956) is an Austrian demographer specializing in demographic analysis and population projection. He founded the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital in 2010 – a collaboration between IIAS ...

* 2017: Herlinde Pauer-Studer * 2018:

Manfred Nowak Manfred Nowak (born 26 June 1950 in Bad Aussee) is an Austrian human rights lawyer, who served as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture from 2004 to 2010. He is Secretary General of the European Inter-University Center for Human Rig ...

* 2019: Verena Winiwarter * 2020: Gabriella Hauch * 2021: Clemens Jabloner

References

External links

Preisträgerinnen und Preisträger – Preise der Stadt Wien: Geisteswissenschaft (seit 1947)
1947 establishments in Austria Awards established in 1947 Humanities awards Austrian awards Culture in Vienna Vienna-related lists Municipal awards {{Austria-stub