Srđan Pirivatrić ( sr-Cyrl, Срђан Пириватрић) is a Serbian historian and diplomat.

Biography

He was born in 1966 in

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. In 1984, Pirivatrić completed his secondary education, and in 1990 he graduated from the

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in History. In 1990-1995 he passed a post-graduate qualification at the same university, in the area of the History of Byzantium, and in 1995 Pirivatrić received a master's degree after defending of Master's thesis "Scope and Character of Samuil's state according to Byzantine sources", refuting the claims of Yugoslav and Macedonian historiographies about that state’s "Macedonian character" and acknowledging that it was the last stage of the existence of the

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. Between 1989 and 1991, Pirivatrić was a librarian at the Byzantine Seminar at the Belgrade University's Philosophy Faculty. From 1991 to 1999, he was assistant professor at the Byzantine History Department at the same university, and in 1999-2000 he was a research fellow at the Institute of Byzantine Studies at the

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. Between 2001-2005, he was on a diplomatic service, and until 2003 he was First Secretary of the

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Embassy in Sofia, and until 2005 in Athens. After 2005, Pirivatrić became a research associate at the Institute of Byzantine Studies and a

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at Belgrade University. In 2013, he defended his

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in history at Belgrade University. He is also a lecturer at the universities of Athens, Sofia and Thessaloniki. Author of some 50 scientific papers, published in Yugoslavia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Greece, France, Great Britain, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary. He was given an award in 2009 by the president of Bulgaria

Georgi Parvanov Georgi Sedefchov Parvanov (, ) (born 28 June 1957) is a Bulgarian historian and politician who was President of Bulgaria from 2002 to 2012. He was elected after defeating incumbent Petar Stoyanov in the second round of the November 2001 pres ...

for his contribution to the good relation between the Bulgarian and the Serbian people.History news network 12-4-09, Bulgarian president awards Serbian writer and historian.
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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Pirivatrić, Srđan 1966 births 20th-century Serbian historians Members of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts Diplomats from Belgrade Serbian medievalists Balkan studies Serbian Byzantinists Living people Academic staff of the University of Belgrade Scholars of Byzantine history 21st-century Serbian historians