Vasilij Melik’s research on elections and electoral reform in Habsburg Austria

Tür:

Kitap Bölümü

Yazar:

Birgitta Bader-Zaar

Yayın yılı:

2024

In 1991, Vasilij Melik received the Anton Gindely-Award for the History of the Danube Monarchy (Anton Gindely-Preis fr Geschichte der Donaumonarchie) 1 in Vienna for his book Volitve na Slovenskem 1861-1918 [Elections in Slovenia 1861-1918].He had published the volume already in 1965, as no. 10 of Slovenska matica series Razprave in eseji [Discussions and essays].Following the award, the book was translated into German and issued, with a few revisions, in the Anton Gindely series on the history of the Danube Monarchy and Central Europe, with the aim of making this exceptional publication available to a broader international public that lacked a sufficient command of Slovenian.This project was realized in 1997, more than thirty years after its original publication, under the title Wahlen im alten sterreich.Am Beispiel der Kronlnder mit slowenischsprachiger Bevlkerung [Elections in old Austria.The example of the crownlands with a Slovene-speaking population]. 2Clearly, the title opted for a designation of the topic that emphasized the historical, Cisleithanian context -"old Austria" and "the crown lands with a Slovene-speaking population," rather than the -for the particular period -politicized term "Slovenia".As a young assistant to Professor Gerald Stourzh at the University of Vienna, I vividly remember meeting the translator, Irena Vilfan-Bruckmller, in Stourzh's office, when she came to discuss particular problems of translation, especially the correct versions of the co…

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