Stefan Troebst

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Stefan Troebst

Stefan Troebst (born January 10, 1955 in Heidelberg ) is a German historian, Slavist and publicist.

Life

From 1974 to 1979 Stefan Troebst studied history, Slavic studies, Balkanology, political science and Islamic studies at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen , the Free University of Berlin (West) and the Kliment-Ochridski University in Sofija (Bulgaria) and graduated with a master’s degree. In 1979/80 he was an exchange student at the Kyrill and Methodius University of Skopje (Macedonia, then Yugoslavia) and a visiting scholar at the Skopjot Institute for National History. In 1980/81 he was a graduate scholarship holder in the Department of History at Indiana University in Bloomington , Indiana (USA) and 1982-1984 doctoral scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation .

In 1984 he received his doctorate in the Department of History of the Free University of Berlin with an investigation into Mussolini’s Balkan policy and was then until 1992 a research assistant or university assistant in the Contemporary History section of the Eastern European Institute of the Free University of Berlin .

On behalf of the Federal Foreign Office , he was a German member of the long-term missions of the Conference for Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) in Macedonia and Moldova from 1992 to 1995. In 1995 he qualified as a professor at the Free University of Berlin for modern and east and south-east European history with a thesis on the Moscow policy of the early modern power Sweden.

After working as a senior analyst at the International Commission on the Balkans of Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Aspen Institute Berlin , a representative of the professorship for 19th and 20th century history, with a special focus on Central and Eastern Europe at the Bundeswehr University in Hamburg and a Heisenberg grant from the German Research Foundation , he was founding director of the Danish-German European Center for Minority Issues (ECMI) in Flensburg from 1996 to 1998.

Since 1999 he has been Professor of Cultural Studies in Eastern Central Europe at the Institute for Slavic Studies, since 2015 Professor of Cultural History of Eastern Europe at the Global and European Studies Institute of the University of Leipzig and Deputy Director of the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO), also in Leipzig.

In 2005/06 he was a research professor at the Volkswagen Foundation at the Willy Brandt Center for German and European Studies at the University of Wrocław and at the Collège d'Europe in Warsaw-Natolin. In 2011/12 he was a fellow of the Imre Kertész Kolleg “Europe's East in the 20th Century” at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena .

Research and publication focus

Stefan Troebst's work focuses on the history of international relations in modern times, the contemporary history of Southeast Europe, the cultural history of East Central Europe, the economic history of Northeast Europe as well as research on the culture of remembrance and the research approach to visual history culture.

Functions

Troebst is a foreign member of the humanities section of the Societas Scientiarium Fennica in Helsinki and an Associate Fellow of the German Society for Foreign Policy (DGAP) and chairs the Scientific Advisory Board of the German-Polish Science Foundation .

He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Center for Advanced Study in Sofija, the Scientific Advisory Board of the Federal Foundation for the Study of the SED Dictatorship , the Board of Trustees of the Willy Brandt Center for German and European Studies at the University of Wrocław and the Central Europe Forum at the Saxon State Parliament , the Scientific Advisory Councils of the European Network Remembrance and Solidarity and the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge / German War Graves Commission, the Commission Internationale des Études Historiques Slaves within the Comité International des Sciences Historiques , the directorate of the Global and European Studies Institute of the University of Leipzig as well as the board members of the German Society for Eastern European Studies and the Center for Area Studies of the University of Leipzig, he also holds functions in the editorial boards of scientific journals ("Slavic Review", "East Central Europe" "," Yearbook for historical communism research "," Inter finitimos "," Contemporary history "and" Comparativ "etc.).

At the University of Leipzig he heads the master's program “European Studies” and the international doctoral program “The New Europe”. In addition, he is deputy chairman of the board of the nationwide umbrella organization “Clio.online - Historical Specialized Information System” .

Troebst has been Honorary Consul of the Republic of Kosovo for Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt since 2014.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • The Bulgarian-Yugoslav controversy over Macedonia 1967–1982. Munich 1983, ISBN 3-486-51521-7 .
  • Mussolini, Macedonia and the Powers 1922–1930. The "Inner Macedonian Revolutionary Organization" in the Southeast European Policy of Fascist Italy. Cologne-Vienna 1987, ISBN 3-412-01786-8 .
  • Bugarsko-jugoslovenskata kontroverza za Makedonija 1967-1982. Skopje 1997, ISBN 9989-624-26-7 .
  • Trade Control - "Derivation" - Containment. Swedish Moscow Policy 1617-1661. Wiesbaden 1997, ISBN 3-447-03880-2 .
  • Conflict in Kosovo: Failure of Prevention? An Analytical Documentation, 1992-1998. Flensburg 1998, ISBN 3-88242-301-3 . [1]
  • Cultural studies of East Central Europe. Articles and essays. Frankfurt / M. 2006, ISBN 3-631-54581-9 .
  • The Macedonian Century. From the beginnings of the national revolutionary movement to the Ohrid Agreement 1893-2001. Selected essays. Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-486-58050-1 .
  • Memory culture - cultural history - historical region. East Central Europe in Europe. Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-515-10384-8 .
  • West-Eastern European Studies. Legal culture, cultural history, history politics / West-Eastern European Studies. Legal Culture, Cultural History, Politics of History. Leipzig 2015, ISBN 978-3-86583-840-7 .
  • Between the Arctic, Adriatic and Armenia. Eastern Europe and its borders. Articles, essays and lectures 1983-2016. Cologne, Vienna, Weimar 2017, ISBN 978-3-412-50757-2 . [2]

Editorships

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ New Honorary Consul of the Republic of Kosovo for Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt , radioleipzig.de June 30, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Troebst, Stefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian, Slavist and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg