Ioannis Zelepos

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Ioannis Zelepos ( Greek Ιωάννης Ζελεπός , * 1967 in Hamburg ) is a Greek historian and neo- Graecist .

Life

Zelepos studied history , Byzantine and Modern Greek philology at the Universities of Thessaloniki and Hamburg from 1988 to 1995 . He completed his studies with a master's thesis on Archbishop Makarios III. and the unification of Cyprus with Greece. In addition to working as a language teacher and freelance translator, he wrote a doctoral thesis on the formation of Greek identity as part of the Megali Idea in a doctoral program at the Universities of Hamburg, Berlin and Athens , with which he received his doctorate in Eastern European history at the Free University of Berlin in 2000 . Zelepos then worked as a public relations consultant at the Greek Consulate General in Hamburg (2000–2005), then as a university assistant (2005–2010) at the Institute for Byzantine and Neo- Greek Studies at the University of Vienna , where he received his habilitation in 2011 in Southeast European History and Neo- Greek Studies. He is a member of the Vienna Eastern Europe Forum research platform at the University of Vienna. In 2011/12 he worked as a lecturer at the University of Regensburg and from 2012 to 2015 as a professor for Neo-Greek Studies at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , where he has been working on a DFG research project since October 2015 .

His main research interests are the history of Greece and Cyprus in the 19th and 20th centuries, Greek popular culture ( Rebetiko ) in the 20th century, research on nationalism , the Southeast European Enlightenment in the 18th century and the Orthodox Church in the Ottoman Empire (especially the Collyvadic movement ).

Fonts

Monographs

  • Archbishop Makarios III. of Cyprus and the ' Enosis '. Continuity and change in the politics of the unification of Cyprus with Greece from 1950 to 1974. Master's thesis . Hamburg 1994.
  • The ethnicization of Greek identity 1870–1912. State and private actors against the backdrop of the 'Megali Idea'. (= Southeast European works. Volume 113). Dissertation . Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2002. Excerpts online
  • Rebetiko. The career of a subculture. Romiosini Verlag , Cologne 2001.
  • The collyvadic movement. On the disputes about tradition, enlightenment and identity in the Ottoman-Orthodox communication space 1750-1820. (= Balkanological publications. Volume 56). Habilitation thesis . Harrassowitz-Verlag, Wiesbaden 2012.
  • Little history of Greece. From the founding of the state until today. Verlag CH Beck, Munich 2014. ISBN 978-3-406-65343-8

Editorships

  • Maria A. Stassinopoulou , Ioannis Zelepos (Ed.): Greek Culture in Southeast Europe in Modern Times. Contributions to the symposium in memoriam Gunnar Hering (Vienna, December 16-18, 2004). (= Byzantina et Neograeca Vindobonensia. Volume XXVI). ÖAW-Verlag, Vienna 2008.
  • Ulrike Tischler, Ioannis Zelepos (Ed.): Worlds of images - world images. The present of the past in post-Ottoman metropolises in Southeast Europe. Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2010.
  • Maria Oikonomou , Maria A. Stassinopoulou, Ioannis Zelepos (eds.): Greek dimensions of south-east European culture since the 18th century. Positioning, movement, crossing borders. (= Studies on the History of Southeast Europe . Volume 17). Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2011.

items

  • The island of Ikaria from July to November 1912. The uprising against Ottoman rule and the " Free State of Ikaria " up to the unification with Greece. In: Ioannis Vassis, Günther S. Henrich , Diether R. Reinsch (eds.): Readings. Festschrift for Athanasios Kambylis on his 70th birthday . de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 1998, ISBN 3-11-015894-9 , pp. 338-350.
  • 'Phoenix without ashes'. Konstantinos Paparrigopoulos and the emergence of a Greek national historiography in the 19th century. In: Markus Krzoska, Hans-Christian Maner (ed.): Profession and calling. History and nation-building in East Central and Southeast Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries. (= Studies on the history, culture and society of Southeast Europe. Volume 4). LIT-Verlag, Münster 2005.
  • Amateurs as nation builders? On the significance of associations for the formation and nationalization of the Greek society in the 19th century. In: Hannes Grandits, Natalie Clayer, Robert Pichler (Eds.): Conflicting Loyalties in the Balkans. The Great Powers, the Ottoman Empire and Nation Building. Tauris Publishing House, London 2011.
  • Nothing new in the southeast? A historical look at the Greek financial crisis. In: Southeast Europe. Volume 60, Issue 3, 2013.
  • Multi-denominational interaction in the Ottoman Balkans from a legal point of view: the institution of kiambin-marriages. In: Eliezer Papo, Nenad Makuljević (ed.): El Prezente. (= Studies in Sephardic Culture. Vol. 7; Menorah. Collection of Papers. Vol. 3; Common Culture and Particular Identities: Christians, Jews and Muslims in the Ottoman Balkans). Beer-Sheva 2013.
  • Cultural transfer and European identity. On the importance of Greek in pre-national Southeast Europe, in: Christian Voss / Wolfgang Dahmen (eds.), Babel Balkan? Political and socio-cultural contexts of language in Southeast Europe. Südosteuropa-Jahrbuch Vol. 40 , Munich a. a. 2014, pp. 19–28.
  • Vampire belief and the Orthodox Church in the Ottoman Southeast Europe. In: Andreas Helmedach, Markus Koller et al. (Ed.): The Ottoman Europe. Methods and perspectives of early modern research on Southeast Europe. Eudora-Verlag, Leipzig 2014.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ University of Vienna, granting the license to teach to Ioannis Zelepos (PDF; 53 kB)
personal data
SURNAME Zelepos, Ioannis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ζελεπός, Ιωάννης (Greek)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek historian and neo-Greekist
DATE OF BIRTH 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg