Oliver Jens Schmitt

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Oliver Schmitt (* 15. February 1973 in Basel ) is a Swiss Eastern Europe - historian .

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Oliver Jens Schmitt studied Byzantine Studies , Neo-Greek Studies and Eastern European History in Basel, Vienna, Berlin and Munich from 1993 to 2000 and passed his diploma examination in Vienna in 1997. He was in the academic year 1999/2000 scholarship from the German Study Center in Venice and was established in 2000 at the University of Munich Dr. phil. PhD. Afterwards Schmitt was a member of the Swiss Institute in Rome from 2000 to 2001 and from 2001 to 2003 (as in 1999) a scholarship from the Swiss National Science Foundation . From 2001 to 2004 he worked as a lecturer at the Institute for the History of Eastern and Southeastern Europe at the University of Munich and completed his habilitation in 2003 for the subject of Eastern and Southeastern European history at the University of Regensburg . From 2004 to 2005 he then held a professorship from the Swiss National Science Foundation at the Historical Institute of the University of Bern .

In 2005 Schmitt became professor for the history of Southeast Europe at the University of Vienna . In addition, from 2009 he was the spokesman for the university research platform Vienna Eastern Europe Forum and a corresponding member of the philosophical-historical class of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and in 2010 he was a visiting professor at the Collège de France . Since October 1, 2010, he has been chairman of the Institute for Eastern European History and since 2011 a full member of the philosophical-historical class of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. In 2013 he also became a foreign member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Kosova and in 2014 Socio straniero des Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Art. In April 2017, he was appointed President of the philosophisch for the period from July 1, 2017 to June 30, 2022 -historical class of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

His research interests lie in the areas of fascism in Eastern Europe in the context of comparative fascism research with a focus on Romania, Eastern Mediterranean urban societies in the long 19th century, society and politics in the late Ottoman Empire, socio-cultural developments in the Albanian Balkans (19th - 21st centuries), social history of the Venetian overseas empire and the late medieval history of the Balkans. His comprehensive Skanderbeg biography has met with heavy criticism in Albania. Schmitt heads the edition of the Imperial and Royal Consulate Reports from Vilâyet Kosovo .

Publications (selection)

  • Venetian Albania 1392–1479. Munich 2001 ( Southeast European Works , 110.)
  • Levantines - lifeworlds and identities of an ethnoconfessional community in the Ottoman Empire in the "long 19th century". Munich 2005 (= Southeast European Works , 122.)
  • Kosovo. Brief history of a central Balkan landscape. Vienna 2008.
  • Skanderbeg - the new Alexander in the Balkans. Regensburg 2009.
  • Korčula sous la domination de Venise au 15e siècle. Paris 2011. ( Les conférences du Collège de France )
  • The Albanians - a story between Orient and Occident. Munich 2012.
  • Southeast Europe and the Adriatic Sea in the Late Middle Ages. Ed. Victor Spinei. Bucharest / Brăila 2012.
  • Capitan Codreanu. Rise and fall of the Romanian fascist leader. Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-552-05803-3 .
  • The Balkans in the 20th Century: A Post-Imperial History. Stuttgart 2019, ISBN 978-3-17-031860-1 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ New Presidium of the OeAW elected . Article dated April 10, 2017, accessed July 29, 2017.
  2. ↑ Enver Robelli: Swiss historian arouses the anger of the Albanians. In: Tages-Anzeiger. February 25, 2009, accessed June 21, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Debacle of a great power. Turkey propagates the Ottoman Empire as a factor of order ... , in: NZZ , July 4, 2015, p. 25
personal data
SURNAME Schmitt, Oliver Jens
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss historian of Eastern Europe
DATE OF BIRTH 15th February 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel