Peter Frankopan

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Peter Frankopan (2018)

Peter Frankopan (born March 22, 1971 ) is a British historian and Byzantinist .

Life

Peter Frankopan comes from a Croatian family of Catholic denomination, which can be traced back to the historical aristocratic Frankopan family . His father Louis Doimi de Lupis (* 1939 in Split ), later Prince de Frankopan and Count Doimi de Lupis, came to Great Britain after the Second World War and was a lawyer there. His sister Paola (* 1969) is the wife of Nicholas Windsor , the youngest offspring of the Duke and the Duchess of Kent . In 2000 the family took the name Frankopan.

Frankopan studied history at Jesus College , Cambridge, where he received his BA in 1993. He received his PhD with a thesis on Byzantine history at Corpus Christi College , Oxford. There he was a Senior Scholar until he moved to Worcester College as a Junior Research Fellow . Since 2000 he has been a Senior Research Fellow there and at the same time director of the Oxford Center for Byzantine Research , an in-house institution that supports the university's research in the field of Byzantine Studies and its public image. Frankopan is also a businessman and hotelier.

Frankopan works scientifically on the Mediterranean region , the Middle East , Russia , Persia and Central Asia as well as on the relationships between Christianity and Islam between antiquity and the Middle Ages. In his book Light from the East (originally Silkroads ) he tells world history from a different point of view - with the Near and Middle East instead of Europe as the starting point - and looks at the history of the Silk Road area from a new perspective.

Frankopan draws the attention of historically interested readers by “emphasizing the topicality” of the story. To do this, he draws on terms from the current political discussion (“world power”). One reviewer notes critically that Frankopan prefers those sources that describe the events as “dramatically” as possible and that he refrains from source criticism .

Awards

Publications (selection)

  • (Ed.): Croatia. Through Writers' Eyes. Eland, London 2006.
  • (Ed.): Anna Komnene, The Alexiad . Transl. by ERA Sewter, revised by Peter Frankopan. Penguin Classics, Harmondsworth 2009.
  • The First Crusade. The Call from the East. Belknap Press, Cambridge (Mass.) 2012.
    • German translation by Norbert Juraschitz: War pilgrims: The first crusade Rowohlt, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-7371-0003-8 .
  • The Silk Roads: A New History of the World. Bloomsbury, London 2015, ISBN 978-1-4088-3997-3 .
  • The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World. Bloomsbury, London 2018, ISBN 978-1-5266-0742-3 .
    • German translation by Henning Thies: The new silk roads: the present and future of our world. Rowohlt, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-7371-0001-4 . (With notes and a map)

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Stefan Weidner: “The Age of the West has come to a crossroads”: The British historian Peter Frankopan writes a bold, entertainingly provocative “New History of the World”. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of October 6, 2016.
  2. ↑ Jürgen Osterhammel : Fascinated by power and opulence . FAZ, October 15, 2016.
  3. ^ Rudolf Neumaier: Mother of the carnage. Peter Frankopan tells the story of the first crusade. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of December 15, 2017, p. 14.
  4. ↑ Emigration Center honors British historian Frankopan , Deutschlandfunk Kultur, November 13, 2019, accessed on November 14, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Frankopan, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1971