“The death of Eva Kreisky is a great loss for science, our city and all the people who were lucky enough to know her,” said Mayor Michael Ludwig today, Friday, on the death of Eva Kreisky a few weeks before her 80th birthday. “With Kreisky, Vienna is losing a personality who took to the barricades for critical science, as well as a combative fighter for a democratic society for men and women,” Ludwig continued. “She was a pioneer in women’s policy and one of the first to deal with the situation, especially of women, and put their experiences at the center of analyzes and surveys. My sincere condolences go out to the relatives,” said the Mayor of Vienna.
“Eva Kreisky is not only considered a co-founder of feminist political science research in this country, but beyond the theoretical discourse she was also actively involved in the establishment of the women’s movement of the 1970s. In all areas, whether as a scientist or active in the social field, she has done progressive work for the benefit of women,” said Veronica Kaup-Hasler, Vienna’s city councilor for culture and science. “Where would gender research in domestic political science be today if Eva Kreisky had not advanced the gender discourse and thus stimulated gender debates throughout the German-speaking region? She has anchored gender as a social and political category in political science and will also be understood as a pioneer by future generations,” emphasized Kaup-Hasler. “I deeply regret the death of Eva Kreisky and express my condolences to the bereaved.”
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Eva Kreisky was born Hannelore Eva Zgraja in Vienna on September 8, 1944, studied actuarial mathematics and modern computing techniques at the Vienna University of Technology and law at the University of Vienna. In 1969 she began studying political science at the University of Vienna. In 1971, Kreisky received her doctorate in law from the University of Vienna, and in 1987 she completed her habilitation in political science. After a professorship in Berlin, she worked as a full professor at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Vienna from 1993 until her retirement in 2012, where she also headed the institute for nine years. The research focus of the daughter-in-law of the former Chancellor Bruno Kreisky was in the areas of political theory and history of ideas, state and institutional theories, parliamentarism and democracy research, the politics of gender relations as well as Jewish political history and anti-Semitism in Austria. (End) red
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