Andrei Pippidi

Andrei Pippidi at the 2012 Ordre des Arts et des Lettres

Andrei-Nicolae Pippidi (born March 12, 1948 in Bucharest ) is a Romanian historian and professor emeritus at the University of Bucharest , specializing in the history of Southeastern Europe from the 15th to 19th centuries. Century, on the Romanian history of the Middle Ages and the early modern period , as well as the relations between Southeast Europe and the Occident.

After studying history at the University of Bucharest and research stays at the CNRS in Paris (1974 and 1978, with Pierre Chaunu and Jacques Le Goff ) and at Wolfson College in Oxford (1981-82, with Hugh Trevor-Roper ), he was in 1981 at the University of Cluj and 1986 PhD from Oxford University . Since 1970 he has worked at the Institute for Southeast European Studies, since 1990 also at the University of Bucharest, where he became professor for the history of the European Middle Ages in 1995. He was visiting professor at the Collegium Budapest (1995), at the University of Amsterdam (1996) and at the Central European University in Budapest (1999). He became a member of numerous bodies and commissions in Romania and in other European countries and in 2012 received the Knight's Cross of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres . In 2016 he retired in Bucharest.

In addition to his mediaeval activities, Pippidi was a founding member of the civil rights organization Grupul pentru Dialog Social in 1990 . He was also a member of the international commission of historians, which in 2004 elaborated the Elie Wiesel report on the Romanian participation in the Holocaust , and of the presidential commission to analyze the communist dictatorship in Romania under Vladimir Tismăneanu . With a column and a two-volume popular science work, he also campaigned for the preservation of Bucharest's architectural monuments.

Pippidi is the son of the ancient historian Dionisie Pippidi and his wife Liliana. His maternal grandfather is the historian, writer and national-conservative politician Nicolae Iorga , murdered by the fascist legionaries in 1940 , whose works he publishes and who founded the Institute for Southeast European Studies, where he works. Andrei Pippidi is married to the political scientist Alina Mungiu-Pippidi .

Fonts (selection)

In western languages

• Hommes et idées du Sud Est européen à l'aube de l'âge modern. Editura Academiei / Ed. du CNRS, Bucharest / Paris 1980.
• Byzantines, Ottomans, Roumains. Le Sud-Est européen entre l'héritage impérial et les influences occidentales. Honoré Champion, Paris 2006, ISBN 2-7453-1293-6 .
• Visions of the Ottoman World in Renaissance Europe. Hurst, London 2012, ISBN 978-1-84904-199-7 .

In Romanian

• Contribuții la studiul legilor războiului în evul mediu. Editura militară, Bucharest 1974.
• Tradiția politică bizantină în țările române în secolele XVI-XVIII. Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România, Bucharest 1983. (2nd, complete and additional edition Ed.Corint, Bucharest 2001)
• Mihai Viteazul în arta epocii sale. Editura Dacia, Cluj 1987.
• România regilor. Editura Litera, Bucharest 1994, ISBN 973-43-0162-4 .
• Rezerva de speranță. Editura Staff, Bucharest 1995, ISBN 973-96111-5-1 .
• Despre statui și morminte. Pentru o teorie a istoriei simbolice. Editura Polirom, Iași 2000, ISBN 973-683-469-7 .
• Bucureşti. Istorie și urbanism, Colecția București care au fost. Editura Do-MinoR, Iași 2002, ISBN 973-85901-8-3 .
• Case și oameni din București. 2 volumes. Editura Humanitas, Bucharest 2012, ISBN 978-973-50-3585-3 / ISBN 978-973-50-3586-0 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ resume Andrei Pippidis (archive file of 2 April 2015 accessed on 26 September 2017).
2. ↑ Author information on the website of Humanitas Verlag (accessed on September 28, 2017)
3. ↑ Ruxandra Cesereanu: Raportul final asupra Holocaustului si raportul final asupra dictaturii comuniste in Romania, ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Revista 22, June 8, 2008 (accessed September 27, 2017).
4. ↑ Andrei Pippidi: Case şi oameni din Bucureşti. 2 volumes. Editura Humanitas, Bucharest 2012, ISBN 978-973-50-3585-3 / ISBN 978-973-50-3586-0 .
5. ↑ Libraria Cafe Kretzulescu - Andrei Pippidi despre Case și oameni din București. In: HotNews.ro , August 29, 2012 (accessed September 26, 2017).
6. ↑ Gabriel Dimisianu: Solidar cu Andrei Pippidi In: România literară. 40, 2012. (Archive file October 23, 2012, accessed September 26, 2017).
7. ^ Website of the Institutul de Studii Sud-Est Europene , Bucharest ( Memento from September 27, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on September 26, 2017).