Lothar HöbeltProfessor Lothar Höbelt was born in Vienna 1956 and graduated with honours from the University of Vienna in 1982. He was Assistant Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago in 1992, and has been Associate Professor of Modern History at the Univrsity of Vienna since 1997, and Lecturer at the Military Academy Wiener Neustadt since 2001. The main focus of his research is the history of Austria(-Hungary) in the 19th and 20th centuries. His publications include Franz Joseph I: Der Kaiser und
sein Reich: Eine politische Geschichte (2009), and Die Habsburger: Aufstieg und Glanz einer europäischen Dynastie (2009). His latest work is 'Stehen oder Fallen? ' Österreichische Politik im Ersten Weltkrieg (2015). Read More Read Less