Arnold Suppan

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Arnold Suppan (born August 18, 1945 in St. Veit an der Glan , Carinthia ) is an Austrian historian of Eastern Europe , a former university professor at the University of Vienna and vice president of the Austrian Academy of Sciences .

Life

Suppan graduated with honors from the Bundesgymnasium Klagenfurt in 1963 and studied history and German at the University of Vienna until 1970. He did his doctorate with Richard G. Plaschka and Erich Zöllner and was then assistant at the University's Institute for Eastern European History. In 1984 he completed his habilitation in Eastern European History and became an associate professor in 1994 and a full professor in 2000 at the same institute. From 2002 to 2008 he was director of the institute. He was visiting professor at several universities in Europe and the USA.

Since 1998 member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Suppan was chairman of the historical commission of the academy from 2003 to 2011. In 2009 he became Secretary General and in 2011 Vice President of the Academy of Sciences.

His main research interests were the final phase of Austria-Hungary , Croatia in the 19th century, the Austrian ethnic groups in the 20th century, Yugoslavia in the interwar period and the relationship between Germans and Czechs since the early modern period. Suppan is currently researching the history of Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia during the Nazi era .

Awards

Writings (monographs)

  • Organization and deployment of military assistance in Austria-Hungary in 1918. Dissertation, 2 volumes, Vienna 1969.
  • Together with Richard Georg Plaschka and Horst Haselsteiner: Inner Front. Military assistance, resistance and overthrow in the Danube Monarchy 1918. 2 volumes, Vienna 1974.
  • The Austrian ethnic groups. Trends in their social development in the 20th century. Vienna 1983.
  • Neighborhood between cooperation and confrontation. Politics, economics, minorities and the image of history in the bilateral relations between Austria and Yugoslavia between the two world wars, 1920–1938. 2 volumes, habilitation thesis, Vienna 1984.
  • Historical background of the breakup of Yugoslavia. Vienna 1993.
  • Yugoslavia and Austria 1918–1938. Foreign Policy in the European Environment. Vienna / Munich 1996.
  • Together with Harald Krahwinkler and Marija Wakounig: German History in Eastern Europe. Between the Adriatic and the Karawanken. Berlin 1998.
  • Oblikovanje nacije u gradjanskoj Hrvatskoj, 1835–1918. [The formation of the nation in bourgeois Croatia, 1835–1918]. Zagreb 1999.
  • Displeasing neighbors. History and perspectives of neighborly relations between the Czech Republic and Austria. (= Publication series Club Niederösterreich 8/9/2005), Vienna 2005.
  • Austrians, Czechs, and Sudeten Germans as a Community of Conflict in the Twentieth Century. (Working Papers in Austrian Studies 06-1, University of Minnesota, October 2006).
  • Hitler - Beneš - Tito. Conflict, War and Genocide in East Central and Southeast Europe. Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-7001-7309-0 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Arnold Suppan on the page Austrian Academy of Sciences Marija Wakounig, Wolfgang Mueller, Michael Portmann (eds.): Nation, nationalities and nationalism in Eastern Europe. Festschrift for Arnold Suppan on his 65th birthday. Lit, Vienna / Münster 2010, ISBN 978-3-643-50241-4 , p. 699 f.
  2. ^ Anton Gindely Prize. Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe (IDM)
  3. ↑ Innitzer Prize 2015 goes to former VfGH President Korinek . Article dated November 16, 2015, accessed November 21, 2015.

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personal data
SURNAME Suppan, Arnold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian historian
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Veit an der Glan