Andrej Studen (1963–7 November 2022) was a Slovenian

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and sociologist of culture who mostly wrote on the everyday,

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, and

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. He significantly contributed to the understanding of the history of the

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in Slovenia and received a broad public acclaim. He was born in

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and studied

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and sociology of culture in the 1980s in

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. In 1992 and 1993, he took post-graduate studies with Hans Jürgen Teuteberg at the University of Münster. Since 1988, he was employed as a researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History in Ljubljana, and since the 2000s as a lecturer at the

University of Primorska University of Primorska (Slovenian ''Univerza na Primorskem'', Italian ''Università del Litorale'') is by age and size the third university in Slovenia. It is located in Koper, Izola, and Portorož and is named for the Slovenian Littoral region ...

(Faculty of Humanities) and University of Ljubljana (Faculty of Arts). He earned his Ph.D. in 1996 with a dissertation on the

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culture of Ljubljana in the 19th century. In 2010, Studen was awarded the KLIO award, which is the highest Slovenian award in the field of

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, by the Association of Slovenian Historical Societies for the book ''Pijane zverine. O moralni in patološki zgodovini alkoholizma na Slovenskem v dobi meščanstva'' (''Drunken Beasts. On the Moral and Pathological History of Alcoholism in Slovenia''; 2009) as the best historiographical work in the past year. Another Studen's major work was ''Neprilagojeni in nevarni: podoba in status Ciganov v preteklosti'' (''Unadapted and Dangerous: the Image and Status of Gypsies in the Past''; 2015) on the history of the

. He also wrote a high-school textbook in collaboration with Janez Cvirn and arranged an exhibition of

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at the

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Studen, Andrej 1963 births 2022 deaths 20th-century Slovenian historians Slovenian sociologists Science writers People from Celje 21st-century Slovenian historians