Mag. Magdalena Irnstötter, MA

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• Curriculum Vitae

  Magdalena Irnstötter studied history, political science and law with a focus on legal history at the University of Vienna. She was employed as a research assistant at the University of Vienna and as a legal research assistant at SVS. Since October 2024, she has been working on her dissertation on the lives of divorced women and men in the Archduchy of Austria under the Enns between 1750 and 1850 as part of the FWF project “After the Divorce”.
  
  since 2023 doctoral studies in philosophy (dissertation in the field of history), University of Vienna
  since 2022 legal research assistant at SVS
  2021–2023 research assistant at the University of Vienna
  2016–2023 bachelor and master degree in History, University of Vienna (with honors)
  2015–2022 master degree in Law, University of Vienna
  2016–2020 bachelor degree in History, University of Vienna (with honors)

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• Conference Organisation

  • 25th Graduate Conference in European History (GRACEH), 7.-9. April 2025
    (https://graceh2025.univie.ac.at/)
• Research Interests

  • History of marriage, gender relations and the family
  • History of marital, matrimonial property, inheritance and family law
  • Social law
• Qualification Works

  Zur Vermeidung der Illegitimität. Taufmatrikelberichtigung und uneheliche Geburt im Erzherzogtum Österreich unter der Enns 1805–1850
  [Avoiding Illegitimacy in the Archduchy of Austria under the Enns 1800-1805]
  (Master thesis, University of Vienna, Link to u:thesis)
  
  
• Projects

  • Member of the project team of “After the Divorce” (FWF: PAT 3520624)
• Links

  • Marriages at Court (https://ehenvorgericht.univie.ac.at/?lang=en)