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Justin Stagl was born in Klagenfurt, Austria, in 1943. There he spent his childhood and youth. After finishing secondary school in 1960, Stagl took up his studies at the Vienna University. He chose Anthropology, Psychology and Philosophy to be his major subjects. Josef Haekel, Wilhelm Koppers and Walter Hirschberg were among his teachers.

Stagl graduated in 1965. He subsequently received a postdoctoral scholarship at the Rijksuniversiteit in Leiden, Netherlands, which was followed by a scholarship at the Westfälische-Wilhelms-University in Münster. In 1967 Stagl took up an assistant position at the Department of Sociology at the Karl-Franzens-University in Graz.

Two years later Stagl began lecturing on Empirical Social Research at the Salzburg University. He furthermore held a scholarship at the Institute for Sociology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich. In 1970 Stagl took up an assistant position at the Institute for Sociology and Cultural Studies of the Salzburg University. He completed his habilitation thesis three years later.

In 1974 Stagl took up a professorship at the Institute for Sociology and Political Sciences of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Bonn. Moreover, Stagl was Visiting Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Notre Dame in 1982/83 and Visiting Fellow both at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris (1987) and at the Clare Hall in Cambridge (1988).

Since 1991 Stagl holds a full professorship for Sociology at the Salzburg University. He furthermore is member of the European Academy and the German Sociological Association (GSA).



(Text written by Vincenz Kokot in July 2012, based on the Professor Catalogue of the Salzburg University; photo source: http://www.ae-info.org/ae/User/Stagl_Justin)