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Anton Pelinka

Anton Pelinka

Anton Pelinka (born 1941) read Law and Political Science at Vienna University and the Institut für Höhere Studien Vienna. He graduated in law in 1964. Between 1968 and 1971 Pelinka was a researcher at Institut für Höhere Studien in Vienna (Department of Political Science); after a spell as a research assistant for Political Science at Salzburg University, he habilitated in 1972 and was appointed a professor of Political Science at Essen University before moving on to West Berlin in 1974. From 1975 and 2006 he was chair of Political Science at Innsbruck University and Dean of the University’s Faculty of Political Science and Sociology between 2004 and 2006.