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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  1. ^ a b c "Vodopivec Peter". slovenskapomlad.si (in Slovenian). Archived from the original on 3 October 2011.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ a b c d e Planert, Ute (2016). Napoleon's Empire: European Politics in Global Perspective. Springer. p. 14. ISBN 9781137455475.
  5. ^ Plut-Pregelj, Leopoldina; Kranjc, Gregor; Lazarević, Žarko; Rogel, Carole (2018). Historical Dictionary of Slovenia. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 631. ISBN 9781538111062.

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