Michael Pammer

Michael Pammer is a Professor and Deputy Head of the Institute for Social and Economic History at Johannes Kepler University Linz. He has been affiliated with the university since 1992, initially as a university assistant and since 2001 as a university lecturer, eventually attaining the rank of full Professor.

His educational background includes law (Dr. jur. 1985), history, and German studies (Mag. phil. 1986, Dr. phil. 1991) from the University of Salzburg. He completed his habilitation in 2001 with a thesis on wealth distribution in 19th-century Austria.

Pammer's research focuses on Central European economic and social history of the 18th-20th centuries, with particular expertise in wealth and income distribution, public finances, agricultural history, and the history of National Socialism. His work often examines the interplay between economic structures and social developments in historical context.

His most notable publication is Development and Inequality: Austria in the 19th Century (2002), which analyzes how additional national income was distributed between social strata during the period of industrialization in the Habsburg Monarchy.

• Erwin Schrödinger Fellow at University of Minnesota (1994/95)

Pammer has served on the Commission for the History of the Habsburg Monarchy of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (2008-2011) and the advisory board of the Central European Digital Economic and Social History Archive (ZEDHIA) (2012-2015). He is currently a member of the European Network for the Comparative History of Population Geography and Occupational Structure (ENCHOS) and co-editor of the 'Economy and History' series at Mohr Siebeck.

His current research projects include studies on 19th century public finances, income distribution in Cisleithania before 1914, childhood diseases and infant mortality, agricultural history, and occupational structure from the 17th to 19th centuries.