Raymond Detrez (
Antwerp
Antwerp (; nl, Antwerpen ; french: Anvers ; es, Amberes) is the largest city in Belgium by area at and the capital of Antwerp Province in the Flemish Region. With a population of 520,504, 1948) is Professor of East European history and cultures and
modern Greek history
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Background
The Byzantine Empire had ...
at the
University of Ghent
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Established before the state of Belgium itself, the university was founded by the Dutch King William I in 1817, when the ...
, Belgium.
Biography
He has studied Eastern European languages and history at the University of Ghent (1967–71) and specialised in
Bulgarian philology
Bulgarian (, ; bg, label=none, български, bălgarski, ) is an Eastern South Slavic language spoken in Southeastern Europe, primarily in Bulgaria. It is the language of the Bulgarians.
Along with the closely related Macedonian la ...
at the
University of Sofia
Sofia University, "St. Kliment Ohridski" at the University of Sofia, ( bg, Софийски университет „Св. Климент Охридски“, ''Sofijski universitet „Sv. Kliment Ohridski“'') is the oldest higher education i ...
(1971). For around two decades, he worked as a producer of the
Belgian Radio
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and then became a professor of Eastern European history and culture. In 1986, he received his
Ph.D.
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with a thesis on the autobiography of
Grigor Parlichev
Grigor Stavrev Parlichev (also spelled Prlichev, Parlitcheff or Prličev; bg, Григор Ставрев Пърличев; gr, Γρηγόριος Σταυρίδης, translit=Grigorios Stavrides, mk, Григор Прличев) was a Bulga ...
. Detrez has published books and articles on 19th and 20th century Balkan history, minority questions and nationalism. From 2000 until his retirement in 2013, he was a director of the Centre of Southeast European studies at the University of Ghent and also taught at the
Catholic University of Leuven
University of Leuven or University of Louvain (french: Université de Louvain, link=no; nl, Universiteit Leuven, link=no) may refer to:
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. Detrez has conducted research mainly into three areas: historical approaches to pre-national collective identities on the Balkans; linguistic approaches to national identity on the Balkans and the image of Eastern Europe in the West and vice versa in literature and culture.
[De Dobbeleer, Michel, and Stijn Vervaet, eds. 2013. “(Mis)understanding the Balkans: Essays in Honour of Raymond Detrez”. University of Gent: Academia Press. URL= http://www.academia.edu/17752135/_Mis_Understanding_the_Balkans_Essays_in_Honour_of_Raymond_Detrez .]
Publications
* ''Burenruzie op de Balkan. Minderhedenproblemen in Zuidoost-Europa''. Utrecht: Oost-Europa Projecten, 1988
* ''De Balkan. Van burenruzie tot burgeroorlog''. Antwerpen: Hadewijch, 1992.
* ''Grigor Părličev. Een case study in Balkan-nationalisme''. Antwerpen: Restant, 19 (1992), nr. 2.
* ''De sloop van Joegoslavië. Het relaas van een boedelscheiding''. Antwerpen: Hadewijch, 1996.
* ''Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Bulgaria''. Metuchen, N. J., & London: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1997. (2006)
* ''Kosovo. De uitgestelde oorlog''. Antwerpen: Hadewych, 1998 (1999)
* ''Bulgarije''. Amsterdam: KIT, 2000. (2007)
* ''Криволици на мисълта''. Прев. Жерминал Чивиков. София: ЛИК, 2001.
* ''Bulgarije: Mensen, Politiek, Economie, Cultuur, Milieu'', 2000.
* ''Macedonie: Mensen, Politiek, Economie, Cultuur, Milieu'', 2001.
* ''Macedonië - land in de wachtkamer''. Antwerpen: Hadewych, 2002.
* ''Servie-Montenegro: Mensen, Politiek, Economie, Cultuur, Milieu''. Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen, 2003.
* ''Developing cultural identity in the Balkans: convergence vs divergence''. Detrez, R. & Plas, P. (eds), Peter Lang, 2005.
* ''Косово. Отложената независимост''. Прев. Анета Данчева-Манолова. София: Кралица Маб, 2008. .
* ''Rusland een geschiedenis''. Pandora Pockets, 2008.
* ''Europe and the Historical Legacies in the Balkans''. Detrez, R. & B. Segaert (eds.) Brussels: P.I.E. Peter Lang, 2008.
* ''Centraal-Europa: een geschiedenis. Houtekiet'', 2013.
* ''Не търсят гърци, а ромеи да бъдат. Православната културна общност в Османската империя. XV – ХІХ в.'', София:
Кралица Маб, 2015.
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Belgian historians
1948 births
Living people
Historians of modern Greece
Historians of Bulgaria