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Papers by Max Voegler

European History Quarterly, 2006

Berlin 5 Open Access from Practice to Impact Consequences of Knowledge Dissemination, Sep 19, 2007

to develop closer working relationships between the partner organisations in order to increase th... more to develop closer working relationships between the partner organisations in order to increase the return on national investment in ICT infrastructure, services and projects in higher education and research.

ABSTRACT The Knowledge Exchange initiative was founded in 2005 by four European organizations act... more ABSTRACT The Knowledge Exchange initiative was founded in 2005 by four European organizations active in promoting and funding developments in information and communication technology (ICT) in the higher education and research sector of their respective countries: Denmark's Electronic Research Library (DEFF), the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft: DFG) in Germany, the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) in the United Kingdom, and the Dutch SURFfoundation. The partner organizations share a common goal to make a layer of scholarly and scientific content openly available on the Internet. Within the Knowledge Exchange, the partners recently embarked on a collaborative project procuring digital content in a multi-national framework. This article sketches the process and weighs the advantages and disadvantages of the chosen procedure. It also presents a discussion on whether this joint effort is worth repeating.

European History Quarterly, 2006

Introduction for Martin Krönke on the Occassion of his Leibniz Lecture in Toronto, 8 July 2015

Presentation given on the occassion of a Workshop for Washington DC based Program Officers of Par... more Presentation given on the occassion of a Workshop for Washington DC based Program Officers of Partner Organizations at the DFG North America Office, 10 June 2015

Talk to introduce Jürgen Richter-Gebert at the MoMath Museum in New York on 3 June 2015.

An introduction to the DFG and the German Research System on the occassion of the Experimental Bi... more An introduction to the DFG and the German Research System on the occassion of the Experimental Biology Conference, Boston, 20 March 2015.

On 21 September 2007, the European Science Foundation (ESF) and the German Research Foundation (D... more On 21 September 2007, the European Science Foundation (ESF) and the German Research Foundation (DFG) organised a one-day workshop “Shared responsibilities in sharing research data”. The workshop was held in the frame of the 5th follow-up conference of the Berlin Declaration on Open Access which took place at the University of Padua (Italy).
The Berlin Declaration on Open Access, signed by many European research organisations, has triggered a wide range of efforts and initiatives to facilitate access to research publications. Yet the Berlin Declaration on Open Access goes beyond scientific publications. It covers also “ .... raw data and metadata, source materials, digital representations of pictorial and graphical materials and scholarly multimedia material”.
It is against a background of growing consensus that enabling access to research data is an equally important task, and that a shared vision and sense of responsibility is needed among the stakeholders to make “open data” a reality, that this workshop was organised.
The objectives of the workshop were:
• to acquaint research organisations in Europe (primarily ESF member organisations) with on-going and planned
initiatives for open access to research data;
• to present and discuss policies and practices on open access to research data of selected research funding
organisations;
• to identify areas in which research organisations could collaborate on this issue.
The speakers, coming from the scientific community, funding organisations, data centres, and universities, met an equally diverse audience in a lively debate about the tasks which need to be undertaken and the challenges to be addressed in order to secure research data for the future generations of researchers.

Von der Mitte des 18. Jahrhunderts bis zum Beginn der Französischen Revolution Cuius regio, eins ... more Von der Mitte des 18. Jahrhunderts bis zum Beginn der Französischen Revolution Cuius regio, eins religio. Dieser berühmte Satz aus dem Augsburger Religionsfrieden (1555) war das politische Leitprinzip des Heiligen Römischen Reiches. In jedem der über dreihundert Reichsterritorien war eine der offiziell anerkannten Konfessionen -1555 die Katholiken und Lutheraner, nach dem Westfälischen Frieden (1648) kamen die Reformierten dazu -auch die Landeskonfession, also die Konfession des Fürsten wie des Volkes. Schon der Westfälische Frieden erkannte jedoch, daß ein solches Prinzip in der Praxis nur schwer umzusetzen war. Im Friedensvertrag wurde das Jahr 1624 als "Stunde Null" der jeweiligen lokalen Konfessionsverhältnisse festgelegt und konfessionelle Unterschiede in allen Ländern außer den katholischen Erbländern des Kaisers zugelassen. In den freien Reichsstädten wurde sogar zwischen drei Arten der Religionsausübung unterschieden: publicum religionis exercitium (freie öffentliche Religionsausübung), privatum religionis exercitium (Kirchen mußten ohne Kirchenturm und Glocken gebaut werden, Prozessionen und andere öffentliche Demonstrationen waren untersagt) und devotio domestica (das Recht, als Konfessionsanhänger im Land zu wohnen und öffentliche Gottesdienste auswärtiger Religionsverwandter besuchen zu dürfen). Eine solche Kategorisierung sollte aber keinesfalls als Zeichen einer wachsenden Toleranz verstanden werden. Konfessionell gemischte Gebiete blieben die Ausnahme und waren von allen Seiten eher unerwünscht. Als zum Beispiel 1685 der französische König Ludwig XIV. die Privilegien aufhob, die 1598 sein Großvater den Hugenotten im Edikt von Nantes verliehen hatte, gab es in Europa wenig Empörung. Die Aufhebung wurde als selbstverständliche und wichtige Maßnahme angesehen, um die allgemeine Ordnung aufrecht zu erhalten. Leitbilder der Toleranz, wie sie bei dem englischen Philosophen John Locke in seinen Leiters Concerning Toleration (1689-1692) zu finden sind, existierten kaum, Intoleranz und konfessionelle Homogenität blieben die Norm. Und sogar bei Locke sollte man vorsichtig sein: Toleranz, also die Duldung von "fremden" Konfessionen im "eigenen" Land, so Locke, konnte nur in Verbindung mit absoluter Loyalität zum Staat gestattet werden. Da aber Katholiken mit dem Papst ein 60 MILIEUS zweites Oberhaupt auf Erden besaßen, hielt Locke diese Loyalität bei ihnen für unmöglich, er schloß sie deshalb aus seiner Toleranzphilosophie aus. Wie außergewöhnlich erscheint dann das im Jahr 1752 verfaßte politische Testament des preußischen Königs Friedrich II. (1740-178Ö 1 ): "Katholiken, Lutheraner, Reformierte, Juden und zahlreiche andere christliche Sekten", schrieb er, "wohnen in Preußen und leben friedlich beieinander. Wenn der Herrscher aus falschem Eifer auf den Einfall käme, eine dieser Religionen zu bevorzugen, so würden sich sofort Parteien bilden und heftige Dispute ausbrechen". 1 Voll von aufgeklärtem Idealismus scheinen die Worte Friedrichs II. zu sein, vor allem im Vergleich mit den Ansichten seiner südlichen Nachbarin. Kaiserin Maria Theresia (1740-1780) in Wien duldete weder Protestanten noch Juden -"die Juden müssen alle hinaus". 2 Als ihr Sohn und Nachfolger Joseph II. (1764/80-1790) anfing, tolerante Ansichten zu vertreten, reagierte sie entsetzt. 3

This dissertation focuses on the diocese of Linz in the Habsburg Monarchy during the second half ... more This dissertation focuses on the diocese of Linz in the Habsburg Monarchy during the second half of the nineteenth century, examining how the Roman Catholic Church and its priests adapted to and confronted the broad set of modernizing forces that were shaping the world around them against the backdrop of rising Ultramontanism within the Church. The study is divided into three sections. The first section explores the structural and ideological transformation of the Catholic Church in Upper Austria in this period. With a focus on the clergy, it examines the changing networks and structures of religious life; it investigates how the diocese changed under the watch of Bishop Franz Josef Rudigier (1853-1884) and Franz Maria Doppelbauer (1889-1908), and also under the influence of Ultramontanism. The second section examines the confrontation with liberalism. It begins in the 1850s, exploring how two events - the building of a general hospital in Linz and the burial of a prominent Protestant in a small town - inform our understanding of the dynamics of Catholic- liberal conflict in 1850s Austria. Next it turns to the height of the Austrian Kulturkampf between 1867 and 1875, exploring, how liberals and Catholic- conservatives presented a social vision that used the active exclusion of the 'other' to define itself. The third section shifts from liberalism to socialism, and from a study of the rise of Ultramontanism to that of Ultramontanism in practice. Examining Catholic responses to the social question, the study argues that Ultramontanism created its own
internal set of contradictions when converted into policy, especially after the publication of the 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum. Instead of bringing the different elements together within the Church, the encyclical had the opposite effect; each group began to interpret the document in different ways and to act accordingly, effectively demolishing the image of Catholic unity that existed around Ultramontanism.

On 8 March 1849, Upper Austria's first liberal governor, Alois Fischer, stood on the balcony of t... more On 8 March 1849, Upper Austria's first liberal governor, Alois Fischer, stood on the balcony of the Rathaus in Linz's market square and proclaimed the closing of the democratically elected Austrian Reichstag in Kremsier. The newly crowned emperor, Francis Joseph, had written in the proclamation that Fischer now read to the crowd, that the Reichstag delegates took too long in their deliberations, wasting time on "dangerous theoretical discussions." Their labors had become redundant and the emperor would decree his own constitution. After reciting the imperial proclamation, Fischer retired to the side and let his assistant read out the new document. Named after its principal architect, Minister of the Interior Franz Stadion, the new "Stadion" constitution was mildly liberal, although, unlike its unfinished predecessor, it was wholly unambiguous when it came to the monarch: his powers were immense and -the document made sure to point out -derived from God, not from the people. 1 In practice, the constitution was mostly ignored. Fittingly perhaps, those assembled in front of the Rathaus that day could barely make out what was being said. As one participant described the scene, the wind was so strong, "that our neighbors disappeared in the dust." 2 The return of absolutist government thus came to Linz unintelligibly, wrapped in a dense cloud of dust.

European History Quarterly, 2006

Berlin 5 Open Access from Practice to Impact Consequences of Knowledge Dissemination, Sep 19, 2007

European History Quarterly, 2006

Introduction for Martin Krönke on the Occassion of his Leibniz Lecture in Toronto, 8 July 2015

Talk to introduce Jürgen Richter-Gebert at the MoMath Museum in New York on 3 June 2015.