“On Trying To Be a Historian of Eastern Europe”: A Migratory Interim Balance. Part 1

Authors

  • Stefan Troebst Doctor, Professor, Chair of East European Cultural History, Leipzig University; Deputy Director, Leipzig Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO) (1999–2021) , доктор наук, профессор, заведующий кафедрой истории культуры Восточной Европы, Лейпцигский университет; заместитель директора, Институт истории и культуры Восточной Европы имени Лейбница (1999–2021)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31168/2412-6446.2021.16.1-2.11

Keywords:

Eastern Europe, East-Central Europe, South-Eastern Europe, Hugh Seton-Watson, Matthias Bernath, Charles and Barbara Jelavich, György Ránki, Free University of Berlin, Institute of National History in Skopje, University of Indiana, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”

Abstract

This autobiographic (and thus highly subjective) text asks what motived a non-East European, born in 1955 in West Germany, to become a historian of Eastern Europe. The answers are, on the one hand, an interest in (Slavic) languages and (Cold War) politics, and, to a lesser extent, family background, and on the other, coincidence and, not the least, fellowship opportunities. Part 1 of the article traces the author’s biography from his high-school years in Baden-Württemberg to universities and research institutions in Tübingen, West Berlin, Sofija, Skopje, and Bloomington, Indiana, from 1969 to 1981 – including his first modest academic achievements. Part 2 covers his professional path till retirement in 2021.

Received 15 April 2021

How to cite: Troebst, S., 2021. “O popytkakh statʹ istorikom Vostochnoi Evropy”: promezhutochnyi itog s migratsionnymi oslozhneniiami. Chastʹ 1 [“On Trying To Be a Historian of Eastern Europe”: A Migratory Interim Balance. Part 1]. Slavic World in the Third Millennium, vol. 16, no. 1–2, pp. 243–265. https://doi.org/10.31168/2412-6446.2021.16.1-2.11

Author Biography

  • Stefan Troebst, Doctor, Professor, Chair of East European Cultural History, Leipzig University; Deputy Director, Leipzig Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO) (1999–2021), доктор наук, профессор, заведующий кафедрой истории культуры Восточной Европы, Лейпцигский университет; заместитель директора, Институт истории и культуры Восточной Европы имени Лейбница (1999–2021)

     

    Postal Address: Zinsweilerweg 22, Berlin, 14163 Germany

    E-mail: stefan.troebst@snafu.de

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Published

20-10-2021

Issue

Vol. 16 No. 1-2 (2021)

Section

Slavistics without boundaries

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