Fikret Adanır

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Fikret Adanır (born October 3, 1941 in Foça , Turkey ) is a Turkish historian and was a professor at the historical institute of the Ruhr University in Bochum . He teaches the history of Southeast Europe with a special focus on Ottoman-Turkish history. Adanır is a doctor of philology and has lived in Germany since he was a student in the 1960s . From the 1970s onwards he had numerous publications as a specialist author, and later as an editor.

Life

From 1962 Adanır studied English Philology at the University of Istanbul . After a stay abroad in the USA, Adanır came to Germany in 1965 for further studies (English philology as well as philosophy and history) at the University of Frankfurt am Main. From 1971 he also studied Slavic languages ​​(Russian and Bulgarian) here. From 1973 Adanır worked as an academic at the Frankfurt University, then in 1978 as an assistant for Eastern European history. Further academic activities followed at the Universities of Gießen (1979–1984) and Berlin (1984–1986).

1986 Adanır received the professorship for the history of Southeast Europe at the Ruhr University Bochum. He teaches there until 2007. From 2002–2003 he was also a visiting professor at Sabanci University in Istanbul , and since 2007 he has been teaching regularly at this university.

Fonts

  • as editor with Bernd Bonwetsch : Ottomanism, Nationalism and the Caucasus. Muslims and Christians, Turks and Armenians in the 19th and 20th centuries. Reichert, Wiesbaden 2005, ISBN 3-89500-465-0 .
  • as editor: Social movements in Southeast Europe. Reassessment of historiography and perspectives of future research (= Bulletin of the Institute for Social Movements. No. 33). Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2005, ISBN 3-89861-431-X .
  • as editor with Suraiya Faroqhi : The Ottomans and the Balkans. A Discussion of Historiography (= The Ottoman Empire and its Heritage. Vol. 25). Brill, Leiden et al. 2002, ISBN 90-04-11902-7 .
  • Focus on Turkey. Lower Saxony State Center for Political Education, Hanover 2000.
  • History of the Republic of Turkey (= Meyers Forum. 32). BI-Taschenbuchverlag, Mannheim et al. 1995, ISBN 3-411-10461-9 .
  • Schooling in Greece (1750–1830) and Bulgaria (1750–1878). In the field of tension between the preservation of ethnic-denominational identity, the emergence of civil society and the emergence of national consciousness. In: Wolfgang Schmale , Nan L. Dodde (Ed.): Revolution des Wissens? Europe and its Schools in the Age of Enlightenment (1750–1825). A handbook on European school history. Winkler, Bochum 1991, ISBN 3-924517-33-9 , pp. 433-468.
  • The Crimean War of 1853-1856. In: Handbook of the History of Russia. Volume 2: Klaus Zernack (Ed.): 1613–1856. From fringe state to hegemonic power. Half vol. 1. Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1986, ISBN 3-7772-8618-4 , pp. 1189-1250
  • The Macedonian question. Their origin and development up to 1908 (= Frankfurt historical treatises. Vol. 20). Steiner, Wiesbaden 1979, ISBN 3-515-02914-1 (At the same time: Frankfurt am Main, University, dissertation, 1977).

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personal data
SURNAME Adanır, Fikret
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Foça , Turkey