andrei pippidi

Andrei-Nicolae Pippidi (born 12 March 1948 in Bucharest) is a Romanian historian and Professor Emeritus at the University of Bucharest, specialised in South-Eastern European history of the 15th–19th century, in Romanian history of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period, and in the relationship between South-Eastern Europe and the Occident.After graduating from the Faculty of History at the University of Bucharest, Pippidi was employed at the Institute of South Eastern European Studies in Bucharest from 1970. Additionally, he conducted research abroad, hosted by the Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Paris (1974 and 1978, with Pierre Chaunu and Jacques Le Goff), and Wolfson College, Oxford (1981–82). In 1981, he earned a doctoral degree at the Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, and in 1986 a DPhil at the University of Oxford (supervised by Hugh Trevor-Roper). In addition to his research at the Institute of South Eastern European Studies, Pippidi worked at the University of Bucharest from 1990, where he was appointed Professor of Medieval History in 1995. He was a Visiting Professor at Collegium Budapest (1995), Amsterdam University (1996), and Central European University, Budapest (1999). A member of various Commissions in Romania and abroad, he was created knight of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2012. 2016, he retired from his position at the University of Bucharest, while continuing to teach courses there.In addition to his main activity as a Medievalist, Pippidi became a founding member of the civil rights organization Grupul pentru Dialog Social in 1990. He was a member of the international historic commission that created the Elie Wiesel Report on the Romanian participation in the Holocaust, as well as the Presidential Commission for the Analysis of the Communist Dictatorship in Romania . He strongly advocated the preservation of Bucharest's architectural monuments, publishing a journal column and a two-volume popular scientific work on this issue.He was elected a  member of the Romanian Academy in 2012 and awarded the prestigious Danubius prize for his entire activity by the Austrian Ministry of Education and the Danubius Institute. His main books are Hommes et idées du Sud Est européen à l'aube de l'âge moderne, Bucharest / Paris (Editura Academiei/Ed. du C.N.R.S.) 1980.Byzantins, Ottomans, Roumains. Le Sud-Est européen entre l’héritage impérial et les influences occidentales, Paris (Honoré Champion) 2006, ISBN 2-7453-1293-6.Visions of the Ottoman World in Renaissance Europe, London (Hurst) 2012 aside thousands of artciles in Romanian, French, English and Italian.Pippidi's parents were the ancient historian Dionisie Pippidi and his wife Liliana Iorga, the daughter .of famous Romanian historian, public intellectual and stateman Nicolae Iorga, murdered by the fascist Iron Guard in 1940, whose works Pippidi edits. Andrei Pippidi is married to the political scientist Alina Mungiu-Pippidi.
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