Andreas Kappeler

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Andreas Kappeler (born September 20, 1943 in Winterthur , Switzerland ) is a Swiss historian and professor emeritus for Eastern European history at the University of Vienna .

biography

From 1962 to 1969 , Kappeler studied history , Slavic studies , journalism and Eastern European history at the universities of Zurich and Vienna . In 1969 he received his doctorate from the University of Zurich, where he worked from 1970 to 1976 as a research assistant at the history department. He then carried out research from 1976 to 1978 as a habilitation fellow from the Canton of Zurich in Paris , Helsinki and Moscow . After his habilitation in Eastern European history on the ethnic groups living on the Volga ( Tatars , Chuvashes , Bashkirs , Mari and others) in 1979, he remained as a senior assistant at the University of Zurich until 1982. In 1982 he was appointed professor for Eastern European History at the University of Cologne , where he taught until he was appointed to the University of Vienna in 1998. Until his retirement in 2011 he was a full professor at the Institute for Eastern European History at the University of Vienna.

Kappeler was the editor in charge of the yearbooks for Eastern European history and sits on the editorial board of several international specialist journals . He also acts as a reviewer for international research projects. In addition to several third-party funded projects , he initiated a data collection project on the population census in Russia in 1897, an international research project on Russian-Ukrainian relations and the doctoral program “Galicia and its multicultural heritage” at the University of Vienna.

Research priorities

Kappeler research focus is the Russia of modern times with special attention to the different nationalities of the pre-modern Tsarist, said social history questions are of his interest in the center. He is considered a specialist in the history of Muslims in Russia and Central Asia . As one of the first historians in German-speaking countries, he began to study the history of Ukraine as early as the 1980s . After his appointment to the University of Vienna, he increasingly included the former Habsburg areas of today's Ukraine ( Galicia ) in his research. In 2017, he stated that in the interests of the nations in the Ukraine, the West had mistakenly "taken over the Russian point of view, which had been the sovereign interpreter for two centuries".

Since 1996 he has been a member of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences and the Chuvash Academy of Sciences; since 1999 he has also been a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences .

Awards

Works

  • Ivan Groznyj in the mirror of the foreign publications of his time. A contribution to the history of the western image of Russia. Lang, Bern / Frankfurt am Main 1972, ISBN 3-261-00432-0 (= dissertation , University of Zurich, 1969).
  • Russia's first nationalities. The tsarist empire and the peoples of the Middle Volga from the 16th to the 19th century ( Contributions to the history of Eastern Europe. Volume 14). Böhlau, Cologne / Vienna 1981, ISBN 3-412-03481-9 (= habilitation thesis , University of Zurich, 1979).
  • Russia as a multi-ethnic empire. Origin, history, decay. Beck , Munich 1992, ISBN 3-406-36472-1 (2nd edition 2008; French, Russian, English, Ukrainian and Italian translations).
  • Little history of Ukraine. Beck, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-406-37449-2 . 4th, revised. and updated edition. 2014, ISBN 978-3-406-67019-0 ; French and Ukrainian translation; 5th, revised and updated edition 2019, ISBN 978-3-406-73558-5 .
  • Russian history. Beck, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-406-41876-7 (7th, updated edition. 2016, ISBN 978-3-406-47076-9 ).
  • The difficult road to the nation. Contributions to the recent history of Ukraine. (= Vienna Archive for the History of Slavicism and Eastern Europe. Volume 20). Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2003, ISBN 3-205-77065-X .
  • “Great Russians” and “Little Russians”: Russian-Ukrainian Relations and Perceptions in Historical Perspective. University of Washington, Washington 2003.
  • Russia and Ukraine. Intertwined biographies and stories. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2012, ISBN 978-3-205-78775-4 .
  • The Cossacks . History and legends. Beck, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-406-64676-8 .
  • The Chuvashes: a people in the shadow of history . Böhlau 2016, ISBN 978-3-412-50564-6 .
  • Unequal brothers - Russians and Ukrainians from the Middle Ages to the present. Beck, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-406-71410-8 .
As editor
  • Ukraine. Processes of nation building. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2011, ISBN 978-3-412-20659-8 .
    • also published in Ukrainian: Мала історія України ( Mala istorija Ukrai͏̈ny , translated by Oleh Blaščuk), КІС / KIS, Kyïv 2007, ISBN 978-966-7048-82-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Historian tears apart Putin's justification for annexing Crimea , Der Bund, December 9, 2017
  2. Website of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine ( Memento from November 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) - Kappeler Andreas member's page , accessed on November 27, 2016.
  3. Table of contents ( Memento from November 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (pdf)