Language Diversity in the Late Habsburg Empire

Markian Prokopovych, Ph.D. (2005), Habil. (2011), Durham University, is the author of Habsburg Lemberg: Architecture, Public Space and Politics in the Galician Capital, 1772–1914 (2009) and In the Public Eye: The Budapest Opera House, the Audience and the Press, 1884–1918 (2014).Carl Bethke, Ph.D. (2006), University of Leipzig, is the author of (K)Eine gemeinsame Sprache? Aspekte deutsch-jüdischer Beziehungsgeschichte in Kroatien. Vom Zusammenleben zum Holocaust, 1900–1945 (2013) and Deutsche und ungarische Minderheiten in Kroatien und der Vojvodina 1918-1941: Identitätsentwürfe und ethnopolitische Mobilisierung (2009).Tamara Scheer, Ph.D. (2007), University of Vienna, is the author of many articles and monographs on the late Habsburg Monarchy focusing on language diversity, identities and loyalties and the Habsburg monarchy's engagement in South Eastern Europe.

• Notes on Contributors1 Language Diversity in the Late Habsburg Empire: Foreword from the EditorsMarkian Prokopovych, Carl Bethke, and Tamara Scheer2 Encounters with Language Diversity in Late Habsburg AustriaPieter M. Judson3 The Fight for the National Linguistic Primacy: Testimonies from the Austrian LittoralMarta Verginella4 The Evolution of Linguistic Policies and Practices of the Austro-Hungarian Armed Forces in the Era of Ethnic Nationalisms: the Case of Ljubljana-LaibachRok Stergar5 Language Transition in the Town of Osijek at the End of Austro-Hungarian Rule (1902–1913)Anamarija Lukić6 The Bosnische Post: a Newspaper in Sarajevo, 1884–1903Carl Bethke7 K.u.K. Generals of Romanian Nationality and Their Views on the Language QuestionIrina Marin8 German and Romanian in Town Governments of Dualist Transylvania and the BanatÁgoston Berecz9 The People of the “Five Hundred Villages”: Hungarians, Rusyns, Jews, and Roma in the Transcarpathian Region in Austria–HungaryCsilla Fedinec and István Csernicskó10 Education in Habsburg Borderlands: the K.u.K. Staats-Oberrealschule in the Austrian Silesian Town of Teschen (1900–1921)Matthäus Wehowski11 Reconstructing Multilingualism in Everyday Life: the Case of Late Habsburg LvivJan Fellerer12 How Jesus Became a Woman, Climbed the Mountain, and Started to Roar: Habsburg Bukovina’s Celebrated Multilingualism at the Turn of the Twentieth CenturyJeroen van DrunenIndex