Mitteilungen des Instituts für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung
academic journal

Mitteilungen des Instituts für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung is an Austrian academic journal established in 1880 by the Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung (Institute for Austrian historic research). Recent editors include Anton Scharer, Georg Scheibelreiter, and Andrea Sommerlechner.
Further reading
Stoy, Manfred. Das Österreichische Institut für Geschichtsforschung 1929-1945. = Mitteilungen des Instituts für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung 50. Oldenbourg, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-7029-0551-4.
External links
Contents list for vols. 1 (1880) – 25 (1904), by Stefan Dürr / Erlangen
Contents list for vols. 26 (1905) – 50 (1936), by Edna Staudhammer / Erlangen.
Contents list for vols.
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