Alvydas Nikžentaitis (born October 18, 1961) is a

Lithuania Lithuania (; lt, Lietuva ), officially the Republic of Lithuania ( lt, Lietuvos Respublika, links=no ), is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. It is one of three Baltic states and lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea. Lithuania ...

n historian, senior research fellow of the

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and president of Lithuanian National Historians Committee.

Biography

In 1988 Alvydas Nikžentaitis defended his doctoral thesis on relations between

Grand Duchy of Lithuania The Grand Duchy of Lithuania was a European state that existed from the 13th century to 1795, when the territory was partitioned among the Russian Empire, the Kingdom of Prussia, and the Habsburg Empire of Austria. The state was founded by Li ...

and

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in the first half of the 14th century. In 1992 together with

Vladas Žulkus Vladas Žulkus (born April 16, 1945 in Telšiai) is a Lithuanian archaeologist. In October 2002 he was elected rector of Klaipėda University. Biography Žulkus started his career as an archaeologist in the Institute for Monument Preservation in ...

he founded Centre of History of Western Lithuania and Prussia (from 2003 -

Institute of Baltic Sea Region History and Archaeology Institute of Baltic Region History and Archaeology ( lt, Baltijos regiono istorijos ir archeologijos institutas, (BRIAI)) is the scholarly research subdivision of Klaipėda University. It was established in 2003, following reorganization of the fo ...

) in

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. Nikžentaitis was also the first director of aforesaid centre and from 1993 he was a head of Historical Department at

Klaipėda University Klaipėda University ( lt, Klaipėdos universitetas or KU) is a university in the Lithuanian port city of Klaipėda. Overview Klaipėda University was formally founded on January 1, 1991, by a decree of the Seimas (the Lithuanian parliament ...

. In 1999 Nikžentaitis defended his habilitated doctoral thesis on Lithuanian Pre-Christian society in the 13th and 14th centuries. In 2000 he was named director of the Lithuanian Institute of History. He served the legal maximum of eight years in this position. Till 2004 Nikžentaitis also worked at

and till 2009 he was also professor of Lithuanian History at

Vilnius Pedagogical University Vytautas Magnus University Education Academy ( lt, Vytauto Didžiojo universiteto Švietimo akademija or VDU ŠA) – an academical unit of Vytautas Magnus University, which specialized in preparing school teachers and other educators. Located i ...

, Faculty of History. From 2009 Nikžentaitis coordinates research projects on various topics in identity and collective memory. Main scholarly interests: *Relationship between

and

; *Historical relationship between the Lithuanians and the Germans; *History of national myths and stereotypes; *Problems of national identity; *Collective memory and cultures of remembrances. Nikžentaitis is the author of several books and articles published in Lithuania, Germany and abroad.

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Short bio in English

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External links

Bio at www.istorija.lt
{{DEFAULTSORT:Nikzentaitis, Alvydas 1961 births Living people People from Jurbarkas District Municipality 20th-century Lithuanian historians Historians of Lithuania Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences faculty Klaipėda University faculty 21st-century Lithuanian historians