Franz AJ Szabo Author & Editor

Franz A.J. Szabo, is Professor of History and Director of the Wirth Institute for Austrian and Central European Studies at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada.  Among his publications are Kaunitz and Enlightened Absolutism, 1753-1780(1994), which won the “Barbara Jelavich Prize” of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies and the “Austrian Cultural Institute Prize” for best book in Austrian Studies. He has been awarded the Austrian Order of Merit for the Arts and Sciences for his contributions to Central European scholarship.