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Austrian Decoration

for Science and Art

Neck badge of the Austrian

Decoration for Science and Art

Type

Awarded for

"...superior creative and

commendable services in

the areas of the sciences

or the arts."

Country

Eligibility

Austrian and foreign

citizens

Motto

Status

Currently awarded

Established

1955

Decoration for Science and Art

Cross of Honour for Science and Art, First

Class

Cross of Honour for Science and Art

Precedence

Next (higher)

Next (lower)

The

Austrian Decoration for Science and Art

(

Österreichisches

Ehrenzeichen für Wissenschaft und Kunst

) is a

of the

and forms part of the

History

[

]

The "Austrian Decoration for Science and Art" was established by the

as an honour for

achievements by Federal Law of

May 1955 (

No. 96/1955 as amended BGBl I No 128/2001). At

the same time, the National Council also established the "Austrian Cross of

Honour for Science and Art", which is awarded as "Cross of Honour, First

Class" (German:

Ehrenkreuz 1. Klasse

) and "Cross of Honour" (German:

Ehrenkreuz

). While not technically counted as lower classes of the Decoration

for Science and Art, these crosses are nevertheless affiliated with it.

Divisions

[

]

Decoration for Science and Art

[

]

The number of living recipients of the Decoration for Science and Art is

limited to a maximum of 72 at any one time (36 recipients for science and 36

for arts). In each of these two groups there are 18 Austrian citizens and 18

foreign nationals.

Cross of Honour for Science and Art, First Class

[

]

There are no limits on the number of recipients.

Cross of Honour for Science and Art

[

]

There are no limits on the number of recipients.

Precedence

[

]

Grade

Preceding

Following

Decoration for Science

and Art

Cross of Honour for

Science and Art 1st

Class

Cross of Honour for

Science and Art

Recipients

[

]

Decoration for Science and Art

[

]

1957:

, architect

1959:

, writer

1959:

, jurist

1960:

, actor

1961:

, conductor;

, international lawyer

1964:

, mathematician;

, writer and director

1966:

, writer and publisher

1967:

, writer;

, physicist

1969:

, soprano

1971:

, architect and artist

1972:

, writer

1974:

, composer

1974:

, actor

1975:

, biochemist;

, composer

1976:

, writer and translator;

, chemist

1977:

, writer

1978:

, chemist

1979:

, architect;

, artist

1980:

and

, composer;

, writer;

, philosopher and science

theorist

1981:

, writer;

, painter

1982:

, mountaineer;

, philologist

1983:

, painter

1985:

, writer

1985:

, painter and sculptor

1986:

, artist

1987:

, writer

1988:

, author and journalist

1990:

, writer;

, architect

1991:

, writer

1992:

, conductor;

, composer

1993:

, architect;

, chemist;

, physicist;

, chemist;

, philologist;

, chemist

1994:

, painter;

, chemist

1995:

, conductor

1996:

, meteorologist and geophysicist

1997:

, artist;

, composer;

, biologist;

, jurist;

, classical philologist;

, archaeologist;

, historian

1998:

reptile expert

, pathologist

1999:

, architect;

, geographer;

, sociologist;

, physicist

2000:

, constitutional and tax lawyer;

, provost;

, historian;

, lawyer

2001:

, experimental physicist

2002:

, painter, poet and singer;

, Austrian-born producer and composer;

, religious

philosopher;

, legal philosopher;

, physicist and mathematician;

architect

2003:

, art historian;

, mathematician

2004:

, dermatologist

2005:

, writer, dissident and former president of the Czech Republic;

, painter;

, neuroscientist;

, virologist

2006:

, actor;

, philosopher;

, historian;

, painter;

, historian

2007:

, actor

2008:

, performance artist

2009:

, translator

2010:

, curator

2012:

, actor, director.

2013:

, author, composer, artist

2014:

, film director, screenwriter, photographer

Cross (and Cross 1st Class)

[

]

Cross of

Honour for

Science and

Art, First

Class

1960:

, composer

1961:

, artist;

, author and director

1965:

, Composer / Professor

Conductor

Violin

1966:

, Conductor / Music Educator / Composer

1967:

, matriarch of the Trapp Family Singers

1968:

, author

1970:

, writer and poet

1971:

, pianist and conductor

1974:

, writer;

, composer;

, chemist,

1975

, mathematician

1976:

, writer

1977:

, musicologist

1978: Kurt Neumüller, pianist and pedagogue

1980:

, composer

1981:

, conductor, composer, flutist

1982:

Cross of

Honour for

Science and

Art

1983:

, forest scientist,

, physicist

1984:

, singer and actor,

, actor and director,

, painter

1987:

, literary scholar and philologist;

, writer and poet;

, literary scholar and linguist

1989:

, pianist and composer

1991:

, American musicologist

1994:

, art dealer and author

1996:

, American historian of Mathematics;

, Italian scholar, essayist and poet;

, Italian philosopher of music and dramatist

1997:

, composer;

, author;

, American sociologist of Hungarian origin

1998:

, actress,

, artist (posthumously awarded),

, microbiologist.,

, Jewish-Austrian, later American photographer and engineer

1999:

, actor,

, historian.

2001:

, composer,

, computer scientist,

, rabbi;

physicist;

, inventor.

2002:

, Italian conductor,

, philosopher,

, philosopher;

, chemist;

, conductor

2003:

, actor and author,

, economist

2004:

, artist,

, veterinary pathologist

2005:

, painter, architect, sculptor,

, choirmaster,

, computer pioneer

2006:

, German composer and artistic director,

, painter,

, computer

scientist,

, pianist,

, artist

2007:

, scientist, writer, artist;

, botanist;

, writer;

, high school director;

, the three children of

Arnold Schoenberg

2008:

, zoologist;

, Austro-American constructivist,

, Michael

Kaufmann, manager of German culture;

, anatomist;

, American soprano;

Finance Minister and Vice Chancellor a.D.;

, physicist and historian of science

2008:

, Estonian composer

2009:

, gallerist;

, journalist and author;

, sports scientist;

, specialist in neurology and psychiatry;

, management scientist;

;

, poet and translator

2010:

, Slovenian writer

2011:

, Canadian Biochemist

2012:

, Austrian former government minister

2012:

, Israeli Archaeologist

2013:

, Slovenian conductor;

, art historian

2015:

, American medievalist and Latinist

2015:

, demographer

2016:

, conductor, radio and television broadcaster, scriptwriter, BBC producer, Chair and President

of Anglo-Austrian Music Society.

2017:

, American chemist;

, educational scientist

2019:

[

]

, Dutch historian

2020:

, Austrian politician and historian

2021:

, Spanish philosopher

2021:

, Austrian lawyer

Forfeiture

[

]

Forfeiture of this honour became possible with Federal Law Gazette I No 128/2001, changing Act § 8a. It allows the

government to strip recipients of their honours if deemed unworthy. The best known example of such a forfeiture is of

the Nazi physician

[

]

On 5 August 2008 the Austrian Science Minister

decided not to withdraw the award from inventor

[

]

– see also Wikipedia German version and see also Austrian ministry

References

[

]

. Bundespraesident.at

. Retrieved

26 January

2020

. PEN American Center. Archived from

on 10 October 2012.

Haag, John.

. Gale Research Inc. Archived from

on 10 June 2014

. Retrieved

10 January

2013

(subscription required)

Eisen, Cliff (2009). "Preface". In Eisen, Cliff (ed.).

Coll' astuzia, col giudizio: Essays in Honor of Neal Zaslaw

. Ann Arbor:

Steglein.

, Leo Baeck Institute

, retrieved

17 August

2016

www.kleinezeitung.at

. 27 October 2015.

Gruber, Kommunikation-Land Steiermark, Markus.

www.kommunikation.steiermark.at

OTS.at

www.uibk.ac.at

External links

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]

9 March 2010 at the

, Federal President of the Republic of Austria

: Federal Law of 25 May 1955 on the creation of the Austrian Medal for Science

and the Arts and the Austrian Honorary Cross for Science and the Arts (pdf, 647kb)

: Amendment to the Federal Law on the establishment of an Austrian Medal for

Science and the Arts and the Austrian Honorary Cross for Science and the Arts. (pdf, 5kb)

following parliamentary question 10542/AB

XXIV. GP in 2012 (parlament.gv.at)

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