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Cameralism, Josephinism, and Enlightenment: The Dynamic of Reform in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1740–92

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2018

Franz A. J. Szabo
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In his great 1848 historical drama, Ein Bruderzwist im Hause Habsburg, the Austrian playwright Franz Grillparzer has Emperor Matthias utter the words that have often been applied to understanding the whole history of the Habsburg monarchy:

      Das ist der Fluch von unserm edeln Haus:
      Auf halben Wegen und zu halber Tat
      Mit halben Mitteln zauderhaft zu streben.
      [That is the curse of our noble house:
      Striving hesitatingly on half ways
      to half action with half means.]
True as those sentiments may be of many periods in the history of the monarchy, the one period of which it can not be said is the second half of eighteenth century. The age of Maria Theresa, Joseph II, and Leopold II was perhaps the greatest era of consistent and committed reform in the four-hundred-year history of the monarchy. What I want to address in this article are some aspects of the dynamic of this reform era, and this falls into two categories. On the one hand, there is the broad energizing or motive force behind the larger development, and on the other, there are the ideas or assumptions that lay behind the policies adopted. As might be evident from the subtitle of my article, I propose to look primarily at the second of these categories. I do so because I think while Habsburg historiography has reached considerable consensus on the first, it has not looked enough on the second as an explanatory hermeneutic.

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Thirty-Third Annual Robert A. Kann Memorial Lecture
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Austrian History Yearbook , Volume 49 , April 2018 , pp. 1 - 14
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Copyright © Center for Austrian Studies, University of Minnesota 2018 

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36 Some typical examples: HHStA, Kabinettsarchiv: Tagebuch Zinzendorf, vol. 6, 16 Mar. 1761; vol. 11, 5 Oct. 1766; vol. 17, 7 Jan. 1772.

37 Thus, for example, Zinzendorf received Arthur Young from Kaunitz's seventeen-year-old (!) daughter, and Rousseau from Princess Kinsky. Ibid., vol. 7, 10 May 1762; vol. 8, 8 Apr. 1763.

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40 Kaunitz claimed that he had a right to call himself a “philosophe” because he was a proponent of “public enlightenment and the abolition of harmful prejudices for the sake of humanity.” HHStA, Staatskanzlei: Wissenschaft und Kunst, Karton 1, Kaunitz to de Silva, 29 Mar. 1769.

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57 The literature on the Masonic movement in Austria is enormous, in part because of Mozart's membership in the Order. The best introduction remains Edith Rosenstrauch-Königsberg, , Freimaurerei im josephinischen Wien: Aloys Blumauers Weg von Jesuiten zum Jakobiner (Vienna, 1975)Google Scholar, as well as her collection of essays published under the title Zirkel und Zentren: Aufsätze zur Aufklärung in Österreich am Ende des 18. Jahrhundert, edited by Gunnar Hering and introduced by Ernst Wangermann (Vienna, n.d. [1992]). Cf. also Reinalter, Helmut, ed., Joseph II. und die Freimaurer im Lichte Zeitgenössischer Broschüren (Vienna, 1987)Google Scholar; Reinalter, Helmut, ed., Aufklärung und Geheimgesellschaften: Zur politischen Funktion und Sozialstruktur der Freimaurerlogen im 18. Jahrhundert (Munich, 1989)Google Scholar; and Balázs, Éva H., Hungary and the Habsburgs, 1765–1800: An Experiment in Enlightened Absolutism (Budapest, 1997), 33–42Google Scholar. The otherwise laudable Jacob, Margaret, Living the Enlightenment: Freemasonry and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Europe (Oxford, 1991)Google Scholar is weak on the Habsburg monarchy.

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72 HHStA, Staatskanzlei: Preussen Korrespondenz, Karton 54, Gottfried van Swieten to Kaunitz, 30 Dec. 1771.

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