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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 at the same university.
He was chief scientist of the Bruno-Kreisky-Archives Foundation from 1985 to 2003 and has been scientific coordinator of the Bruno Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue since 1992.
Rathkolb had been scientific employee of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for history and
and chairman of the scientific advisory panel of the Theodor Körner Prize since 2006.
In 2000 and 2001 he had a research-professorship at Harvard University and was guest professor at the University of Chicago in 2003. He also lectured at the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna, the University of Salzburg, at Duke University and the University of Maryland.
He has been the managing editor of the magazine "zeitgeschichte" since 2002.
External links.
- Heidrun Huber, "Oliver Rathkolb: 'Musste mir alles erkämpfen'