Peter Vodopivec
Peter Vodopivec (born 7 July 1946) is a Slovenian historian and public intellectual.[1]
He was born in a Slovene family in Belgrade, Serbia, then capital of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He studied History, Comparative Literature and Sociology at the University of Ljubljana.[2] He received a PhD in History in 1978 with his thesis "Middle Class Social and Economic Ideas in Inner-Austria in Pre-March period", and afterwards worked as a researcher on the Age of Enlightenment in France and in the United States.[2]
During the late 1960s, he was active in the student movement in Slovenia.[3] In the 1980s, he was one of the co-founders of the alternative journal Nova revija.[1][3] In 1989, he was among the founding members of the Slovenian Democratic Union.[1] After 1992, he left politics and dedicated himself to scholarly work.
He was Professor of Modern European and American History at the University of Ljubljana from 1980 to 1999.[4]
Since 1999 he has been a senior research fellow at the Institute for Modern History in Ljubljana.[4]
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- Les Slovènes et la France (1914–1920) ("The Slovenes and France". Paris: 1983);[4]
- "Intellectuals and power in the former Yugoslavia". Quadrant. 40 (7–8 [328]): 41–44. July–August 1996.
- Slovenes and Yugoslavia : 1918–1991 (Berkeley, CA: 1992);[5]
- The Serbs and Croats; their images from a Slovene historical perspective (Ljubljana - New York: 1993);
- Usoda slovenskih demokratičnih izobražencev: Angela Vode in Boris Furlan, žrtvi Nagodetovega procesa ("The Fate of the Slovenian Democratic Intelligentsia: Angela Vode and Boris Furlan, Victims of the Nagode Trial". Ljubljana, 2001).
- O gospodarskih in socialnih nazorih na Slovenskem v 19. stoletju ("Economic and Social Theories in 19th Century Slovene Lands". Ljubljana: 2006);
- Od Pohlinove slovnice do samostojne države: slovenska zgodovina od konca 18. stoletja do konca 20. stoletja (From Pohlin's Grammar Book to an Independent State: Slovene History from Late 18th to Late 20th Century". Ljubljana: 2006);[4]
- Slowenische Geschichte: Gesellschaft - Politik - Kultur ("Slovene History: Society - Politics - Culture". Graz: 2008), with Vasko Simoniti and Peter Štih.[4]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c "Vodopivec Peter". slovenskapomlad.si (in Slovenian). Archived from the original on 3 October 2011.
- ^ a b Petritsch, Wolfgang; Altmann, Franz-Lothar; Dzihic, Vedran (2010). Conflict and Memory: Bridging Past and Future in (South East) Europe. Nomos. p. 325. ISBN 9783832948795.
- ^ a b Chowdhury, Sunandan Roy (2002). "Mapping Minds, Changing Maps: Comparative Understanding of the Role of Universities in Societies Undergoing Transformation" (PDF). Open Society Institute. p. 9.
- ^ a b c d e Planert, Ute (2016). Napoleon's Empire: European Politics in Global Perspective. Springer. p. 14. ISBN 9781137455475.
- ^ Plut-Pregelj, Leopoldina; Kranjc, Gregor; Lazarević, Žarko; Rogel, Carole (2018). Historical Dictionary of Slovenia. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 631. ISBN 9781538111062.
External links[edit]
- Interview on the Slovenian Television, October 2006
- Photos from an honorary lecture at the University of Ljubljana
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