Renate Wagner-Rieger

Renate Wagner-Rieger (10 January 1921 – 11 December 1980, her maiden name is Renate Rieger)

In 1971 Renate Wagner-Rieger was appointed full professor at University of Vienna, she was the first woman in the history department to hold this position.

Wagner-Rieger paid particular attention to previously neglected and partially devalued era of Historicism in architecture (the breakdown in romantic historicism, strict historicism and late historicism stems from it) and important contributions towards the study of Gründerzeit. In 1968 she initiated the large-scale research project called "Wiener Ringstraße", also known as "The Ringstraße: Image of an Era: the expansion of the inner city of Vienna under Emperor Franz Joseph" which studied the ring road in the historic center of Vienna.

Renate Wagner-Rieger died in Vienna, after a brief illness at age 59 on 11 December 1980.

Publications

Wagner-Rieger, Renate (1957) "The Vienna townhouse Baroque and Classicism" Wagner-Rieger, Renate (1962) "The lock to Spittal an der Drau in Carinthia"

Wagner-Rieger, Renate (1970) "Vienna's architecture in the 19th century"

Literature

Awards and honors

1976: Prize of the City of Vienna for the Humanities (Preis der Stadt Wien für Geisteswissenschaften) 1998: Wagner-Rieger-Tor, passage from courtyard 8 to courtyard 9, within the “Gates of Remembrance” on the campus of the University of Vienna