Kurt David Brühl Visiting Professorship
Kurt David Brühl (1929-2014) was President of the Jewish Community in Graz for many years and Honorary Consul of Great Britain and Northern Ireland for the federal states of Carinthia and Styria. He was associated with the University for many years, for example by awarding scholarships for stays in England and through his work in the David Herzog Fund. In 1999, Brühl was awarded honorary citizenship of the University of Graz.
In the 2001/02 academic year, the Kurt Brühl Visiting Professorship for Jewish Studies was established. The professorship, named after the long-standing president of the Jewish Community of Styria and benefactor, is filled every two semesters and focuses on history, literature and cultural studies. It is explicitly open to applicants from various academic disciplines.
The current visiting professor is Dr. Karin Neuburger Twito.
Former visiting professors
| Summer semester 2024 | Dr. Karin Neuburger-Twito (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) |
Winter semester 2023/24 | Dr. Martina Niedhammer (Collegium Carolinum/LMU Munich, Germany) |
Summer semester 2022 | Dr. Björn Siegel (Institute for the History of German Jews Hamburg, Germany) |
Winter semester 2021/22 | Dr. Noëmie Duhaut (IEG Mainz, Germany) |
Summer semester 2020 | PD Dr. Birgit Erdle (TU Berlin & University of Göttingen, Germany) |
Summer semester 2019 | Anat Gilboa, PhD (University of Haifa, Israel) |
Summer semester 2018 | PD Dr. Hans-Joachim Hahn (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) |
Summer semester 2017 | Dr. Ljiljana Radonić (Vienna, Austria) |
Summer semester 2016 | Prof. Dr. Frank Stern (Vienna) |
Summer semester 2015 | Dr. Lars Fischer (London) |
Summer semester 2014 | Prof. Dr. Joachim Schloer (Southampton) |
Summer semester 2013 | PD Dr. Hildegard Frübis (Berlin) |
Summer semester 2012 | Prof. Dr. Ulrich Wyrwa (Berlin) |
Summer semester 2011 | PD Dr. Thomas Meyer (Munich) |
Summer semester 2010 | PD Dr. Mona Körte (Berlin) |
Summer semester 2009 | Apl. Prof. Dr. Trude Maurer (Göttingen) |
Summer semester 2008 | Dr. Eric Jacobson (Roehampton University, London) |
Summer semester 2007 | Univ.-Prof. Dr. Liliane Weissberg (University of Pennsylvania) |
Winter semester 2004/05 | Dr. Stefan Litt (Koebner-Center for German History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) |
Winter semester 2002/03 | Priv.-Doz. Dr. Elisabeth Hollender (Gerhard-Mercator-University Duisburg, Germany) |
Winter semester 2001/02 | Dr. Gerold Necker (Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-University Frankfurt a.M., Germany) |