Peter Vodopivec

Peter Vodopivec (born 7 July 1946) is a Slovenian historian and public intellectual.^[1]

He was born in a Slovene family in Belgrade, Serbia, then capital of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He studied History, Comparative Literature and Sociology at the University of Ljubljana.^[2] He received a PhD in History in 1978 with his thesis "Middle Class Social and Economic Ideas in Inner-Austria in Pre-March period", and afterwards worked as a researcher on the Age of Enlightenment in France and in the United States.^[2]

During the late 1960s, he was active in the student movement in Slovenia.^[3] In the 1980s, he was one of the co-founders of the alternative journal Nova revija.^[1][3] In 1989, he was among the founding members of the Slovenian Democratic Union.^[1] After 1992, he left politics and dedicated himself to scholarly work.

He was Professor of Modern European and American History at the University of Ljubljana from 1980 to 1999.^[4]

Since 1999 he has been a senior research fellow at the Institute for Modern History in Ljubljana.^[4]

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• Les Slovènes et la France (1914–1920) ("The Slovenes and France". Paris: 1983);^[4]
• "Intellectuals and power in the former Yugoslavia". Quadrant. 40 (7–8 [328]): 41–44. July–August 1996.
• Slovenes and Yugoslavia : 1918–1991 (Berkeley, CA: 1992);^[5]
• The Serbs and Croats; their images from a Slovene historical perspective (Ljubljana - New York: 1993);
• Usoda slovenskih demokratičnih izobražencev: Angela Vode in Boris Furlan, žrtvi Nagodetovega procesa ("The Fate of the Slovenian Democratic Intelligentsia: Angela Vode and Boris Furlan, Victims of the Nagode Trial". Ljubljana, 2001).
• O gospodarskih in socialnih nazorih na Slovenskem v 19. stoletju ("Economic and Social Theories in 19th Century Slovene Lands". Ljubljana: 2006);
• Od Pohlinove slovnice do samostojne države: slovenska zgodovina od konca 18. stoletja do konca 20. stoletja (From Pohlin's Grammar Book to an Independent State: Slovene History from Late 18th to Late 20th Century". Ljubljana: 2006);^[4]
• Slowenische Geschichte: Gesellschaft - Politik - Kultur ("Slovene History: Society - Politics - Culture". Graz: 2008), with Vasko Simoniti and Peter Štih.^[4]

• Interview on the Slovenian Television, October 2006
• Photos from an honorary lecture at the University of Ljubljana