o. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Roman Sandgruber 

Born 1947, Rohrbach, Upper Austria, Austria 

1965-1971 Studied history, German literature and economics at Vienna University

1972-1988 Assistant, Department for Social and Economic History, University of  Vienna (under Professors Alfred Hoffmann and Michael Mitterauer) 

1982 Habilitation as lecturer (Dozent) in Economic and Social History,

        Vienna University 

since 1982 Full Professor and Head of the Department of Economic and Social  History, Linz University 

since 1995 Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Science 

since 1996 Chairman of the Senate of Linz University 

1998 Academic Director of the Upper Austrian Regional Exhibition 1998, "Land  of Hammers - Iron Ore Land" and Chairman of the Academic Advisory  Committee of the "Iron Road" regional association in Upper Austria

        Chairman, Economic History Section, Union of Austrian Historians and  Historical Associations 

Prof. Sandgruber has published a comprehensive account of the economic history of Austria from the Middle Ages to the present (Ökonomie und Politik. Wirtschaftsgeschichte Österreichs vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart, Vienna 1995) in the ten-volume series Österreichische Geschichte. In this book, he deals inter alia with the question of confiscations of property, forced labour, restitution and various forms of compensation. He has also done research on the history of Austrian farming, the iron industry in the Alps, historical statistics, demand patterns in the age of industrialization, the history of everyday life, the changing environment and general Austrian economic and social history in the 20th century. He has published seven monographs and about 150 articles in academic journals and collections of essays (see below). He is a regular contributor to a number of daily papers and magazines. 

In addition to numerous smaller awards, he has been honoured with the Sandoz Prize for distinguished research achievements (1987), the Karl von Vogelsang Prize from the Austrian government (1988) and the Economic Research Award of the state government of Upper Austria (1990).   

Selected publications 

Self-contained  

* Ökonomie und Politik, Österreichische Wirtschaftsgeschichte vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart (Vol, 10 of Österreichische Geschichte, a series of publications on Austrian history ed. by Herwig Wolfram), Vienna 1995 (see above); 

Essays 

* "Rollenverständnis in Bauern-, Heimarbeiter- und Industriearbeiterfamilien Österreichs im 18., 19. und 20. Jahrhundert" [Role Perception in Peasant, Homeworker and Industrial Worker Families in Austria in the 18th, 19th and 20th Centuries] in: Peter Borscheid and Hans J. Treuteberg (ed.), Ehe, Liebe, Tod [Marriage, Love and Death], pp. 135-149, Munich 1983; 

* "Die Postsparkassensparer. Sozialstruktur und Alltagsleben im Lichte von Bankkunden" [The Postal Savings Bank Savers: Social Structure and Everyday Life in the Light of Bank Customers], in: Roland Löffler and Michael Wagner (ed.), Stillstand ist Rückschritt. Der erste Postsparkassen-Gouverneur 1910 [Standstill Means Retrogression: The First Governor of the Postal Savings Bank, 1910], pp. 43-67, Vienna 1986; 

* "Von der Ersten zur Dritten Republik. Stationen eines erstaunlichen Weges durch das 20. Jahrhundert" [From the First to the Third Republic: Stages of an Amazing Progress through the 20th Century], in: Standort Österreich. Über Kultur, Wirtschaft und Politik im Wandel [Location Austria: Culture, Economy and Politics in a Period of Change], ed. Gerd Bacher, Karl Schwarzenberg and Josef Taus, pp. 287-316, Graz 1990; 

* "The Industrial Tradition in Lower Austria", in: John Komlos (ed.) Economic Development in the Habsburg Monarchy and in the Successor States, pp. 303-316, New York 1990; 

* "Le cooperative in Austria: sviluppo storico e struttura attuale" [Cooperatives in Austria: History and Present Structure], in: Cooperazione di credito. Rivista trimestale di cultura cooperativa [Italian journal of the Cooperative Movement], No. 126, 41st Year, pp. 413-422, 1989; 

* "Österreich 1650-1850" [Austria 1650-1850], in: Handbuch der europäischen Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte [Handbook of European Economic and Social History], Vol. 4, ed. by Ilja Mieck, pp. 619-687, Stuttgart 1993; 

* With Vera Mühlpeck and Hannelore Woitek, "The Consumer Price Index from 1800 to 1914. A Calculation in Retrospective for Vienna and the Contemporary Territory of Austria", reprinted in: Herbert Matis (ed.), The Economic Development of Austria since 1870, pp. 199-229, Cambridge 1994; 

* "Der 'lange Schatten' der österreichischen Wirtschaftspolitik" [The "Long Shadow" of Austrian Economic Policy], in: Information zur politischen Bildung [Political Education Information Sheet] 1996, No. 11, pp. 43-56. 

* "Spiegel von Wirtschaftsrechnungen und Lebenserinnerungen" [Reflecting Mirror: Economic Accounts and Biographical Reminiscences], in: Wiener Wege der Sozialgeschichte. Themen - Perspektiven - Vermittlungen. Michael Mitterauer zum 60. Geburtstag [Festschrift to celebrate the 60th birthday of Prof, Michael Mitterauer], pp. 299-334, Vienna 1997.