Jože Pirjevec - Wikipedia Jože Pirjevec From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Pirjevec (first from the left) at a press conference in 2013 Jože Pirjevec, italianised Giuseppe Pierazzi (born June 1, 1940), is a Slovene-Italian historian and a prominent diplomatic historian of the west Balkans region, as well as a member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Contents 1 Biography 2 Major works 3 References 4 Sources 5 External links Biography[edit] He was born in a Slovene-speaking family in Trieste, Italy. His younger sister, Marija, became a translator and literary scholar. After World War II, the family moved from Yugoslavia to the Free Territory of Trieste. In 1966, he graduated from history at the University of Trieste and in 1971 at the University of Pisa. He continued his studies at the Diplomatic Academy in Vienna. In 1977, he obtained his PhD in Ljubljana under the supervision of historian Fran Zwitter. He initially researched the relations between Italy and the South Slavic peoples during the Risorgimento in mid 19th century. He continued with research on Russian history in the second half of the 19th century. Since the 1980s, he has been researching and publishing on the history of Yugoslavia, the Yugoslav wars and the history of the Slovenes in Italy.[1] He has taught history of Eastern Europe at the universities of Pisa, Trieste and Padova. He is currently head of the history department at the University of Primorska in Koper. In 1995, he became a member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts.[2] He has also been active in public life, including party politics. In the 1990s, he was an active member of the Slovene Union, the centrist party of the Slovene minority in the Italian region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia. Since 2005, he has been an active member of the Liberal Democracy of Slovenia. In 2008, he unsuccessfully ran for the Slovenian Parliament in the district of Sežana. Pirjevec is both an Italian and Slovenian citizen. Besides Slovene and Italian, he is fluent in German, English, Serbo-Croatian, Russian and French languages. He is a member of the Honorary Board of the European Association of History Educators. Major works[edit] In Italian Niccolò Tommaseo tra Italia e Slavia ("Niccolò Tommaseo between Italy and the Slavic World"). Venice: Marsilio, 1977. Storia della Russia del XIX secolo (1800-1917) ("History of Russia in the 19th Century (1800-1917)"). Padua: Francesco Vallardi, 1984. Tito, Stalin e l'Occidente ("Tito, Stalin and the West"). Trieste: Editoriale Stampa Triestina, 1985. Trieste, città di frontiera ("Trieste, a City on the Border). Trieste: Lint, 1989. Il Giorno di san Vito. Jugoslavia 1918-1992: storia di una tragedia ("St. Vitus Day. Yugoslavia 1918-1992: History of a Tragedy). Turin: Nuova Eri, 1993. Serbi, Croati, Sloveni : storia di tre nazioni ("Serbs, Croats, Slovenes: History of Three Nations"). Bologna: Il Mulino, 1995. L'altra resistenza: la guerra di liberazione a Trieste e nella Venezia Giulia ("The Other Resistance: the Liberation Fight in Trieste and the Julian March"), co-authored with Marta Verginella and Roberto Spazzali. Trieste: Qualestoria, 1995. Storia degli sloveni in Italia, 1866-1998 ("History of the Slovenes in Italy, 1866-1998). Co-authored with Milica Kacin Wohinz. Venice: Marsilio, 1998. Le guerre jugoslave, 1991-1999 ("The Yugoslav Wars"). Turin: Giulio Einaudi Editore, 2001. Foibe : una storia d'Italia ("Foibe: An Italian History). Turin: Giulio Einaudi Editore, 2009. In Slovene Tržaški vozel. 1945-1980 ("The Trieste Knot. 1945-1980"). Trieste: Založništvo tržaškega tiska, 1985. Vojna in mir na Primorskem ("War and Peace in the Slovenian Littoral"), editor. Koper: University of Primorska, 2005. "Trst je naš!" Boj Slovencev za morje (1848-1954) ("'Trieste Is Ours!' The Slovene Struggle for the Access to the Sea (1848-1954)"). Ljubljana: Nova revija, 2007. Tito in tovariši ("Tito and the Comerades"). Ljubljana: Cankarjeva založba, 2011. References[edit] ^ "Zaposleni". www.fhs.upr.si. ^ http://www.sazu.si/o-sazu/clani/joze-pirjevec.html Sources[edit] Biography on the webpage of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts Biography on the webpage of the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Primorska Report on Pirjevec's campaign activities during the 2008 parliamentary elections on the webpage of the Liberal Democracy of Slovenia External links[edit] Wikimedia Commons has media related to Jože Pirjevec. Video of Pirjevec's book presentation on YouTube (in Slovene) Video of Pirjevec's speech on the congress of the Liberal Democracy of Slovenia on YouTube (in Slovene) Authority control BIBSYS: 12043599 BNF: cb119903027 (data) GND: 136264476 ICCU: IT\ICCU\CFIV\009125 ISNI: 0000 0001 2135 5984 LCCN: n80069594 NKC: jn20010309689 NTA: 322737931 PLWABN: 9810587146505606 SUDOC: 027974510 VIAF: 61555053 WorldCat Identities: lccn-n80069594 Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jože_Pirjevec&oldid=969861861" Categories: Slovenian historians Italian historians Italian Slovenes People from Trieste Historians of the Balkans University of Trieste alumni University of Pisa alumni University of Ljubljana alumni University of Trieste faculty University of Pisa faculty University of Padua faculty University of Primorska faculty Members of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts 1940 births Living people Hidden categories: Commons category link from Wikidata Articles with Slovene-language sources (sl) Wikipedia articles with BIBSYS identifiers Wikipedia articles with BNF identifiers Wikipedia articles with GND identifiers Wikipedia articles with ICCU identifiers Wikipedia articles with ISNI identifiers Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Wikipedia articles with NKC identifiers Wikipedia articles with NTA identifiers Wikipedia articles with PLWABN identifiers Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers Navigation menu Personal tools Not logged in Talk Contributions Create account Log in Namespaces Article Talk Variants Views Read Edit View history More Search Navigation Main page Contents Current events Random article About Wikipedia Contact us Donate Contribute Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file Tools What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Permanent link Page information Cite this page Wikidata item Print/export Download as PDF Printable version In other projects Wikimedia Commons Languages Deutsch Italiano Slovenščina Edit links This page was last edited on 27 July 2020, at 20:24 (UTC). 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