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Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung, IÖGFInstitut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung, IÖGF, (Institute of Austrian History Research), established 1854 in Vienna; has a library with about 60,000 volumes, collections of original documents, facsimiles and seals, is subject to the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Culture and part of the Vienna University Arts faculty. It offers advanced training in the historical sciences (research into (historical) sources, diplomatics), trains civil servants for service in archives and museums and conducts research projects. As a school devoted to the study and representation of Austrian history, the IÖGF became a renowned centre for the cultivation of auxiliary historical disciplines under its then president T. von Sickel; accordingly, its name was temporarily changed to "Österreichisches Institut für Geschichtsforschung" (Austrian Institute of History Research) History, Study of. In 1881 the Institute of Austrian History (Österreichisches Historisches Institut) in Rome was founded on the initiative of the Vienna Institute. Heads: A. Jäger (1854-1869), T. von Sickel (1869-1891), H. von Zeißberg (1891-1896), E. Mühlbacher (1896-1903), E. Ottenthal (1903-1926), O. Redlich (1926-1929), H. Hirsch (1929-1940), O. Brunner (1940-1945), L. Santifaller (1945-1962), H. Fichtenau (1962-1983), H. Wolfram (since 1983). Organ: Mttlg. des Instituts für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung (MIÖG, since 1880). Numerous single scientific publications; compilations and reference works; statutes; scientific research work; membership list in the chronicle of the MIÖG. Literature: L. Santifaller, Das Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung, 1950; A. Lhotsky, Geschichte des Instituts für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung (MIÖG, supplementary vol. 17), 1954.
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