Andrei-Nicolae Pippidi (born 12 March 1948, in

Bucharest Bucharest ( , ; ro, București ) is the capital and largest city of Romania, as well as its cultural, industrial, and financial centre. It is located in the southeast of the country, on the banks of the Dâmbovița River, less than north of ...

) is a Romanian historian and Professor Emeritus at the

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, specialised in South-Eastern European history of the 15th–19th century, in Romanian history of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period, and in the relationship between South-Eastern Europe and the Occident. After graduating from the Faculty of History at the University of Bucharest, Pippidi was employed at the Institute of South Eastern European Studies in Bucharest from 1970. Additionally, he conducted research abroad, hosted by the

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, Paris (1974 and 1978, with

Pierre Chaunu Pierre Chaunu (17 August 1923 – 22 October 2009) was a French historian. His specialty was Latin American history; he also studied French social and religious history of the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. A leading figure in French quantitati ...

and

Jacques Le Goff Jacques Le Goff (1 January 1924 – 1 April 2014) was a French historian and prolific author specializing in the Middle Ages, particularly the 12th and 13th centuries. Le Goff championed the Annales School movement, which emphasizes long-term t ...

), and

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(1981–82). In 1981, he earned a doctoral degree at the

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, Cluj-Napoca, 1986 at the

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(supervised by

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). In addition to his research at the Institute of South Eastern European Studies, Pippidi worked at the University of Bucharest from 1990, where he was appointed Professor of Medieval History in 1995. He was a Visiting Professor at Collegium Budapest (1995),

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(1996), and

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(1999). A member of various Commissions in Romania and abroad, he was created knight of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2012. 2016, he retired from his position at the University of Bucharest, while continuing to teach courses there. In addition to his main activity as a Medievalist, Pippidi became a founding member of the civil rights organization ''Grupul pentru Dialog Social'' in 1990. He was a member of the international historic commission that created the ''Elie Wiesel Report'' on the Romanian participation in the Holocaust, as well as the ''Presidential Commission for the Analysis of the Communist Dictatorship in Romania'' led by

Vladimir Tismăneanu Vladimir Tismăneanu (; born July 4, 1951) is a Romanian American political scientist, political analyst, sociologist, and professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. A specialist in political systems and comparative politics, he is di ...

. He strongly advocated the preservation of Bucharest's architectural monuments, publishing a journal column and a two-volume popular scientific work on this issue. He was elected a corresponding member of the

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in 2012. Pippidi's parents were the ancient historian Dionisie Pippidi and his wife Liliana. His maternal grandfather is

Nicolae Iorga Nicolae Iorga (; sometimes Neculai Iorga, Nicolas Jorga, Nicolai Jorga or Nicola Jorga, born Nicu N. Iorga;Iova, p. xxvii. 17 January 1871 – 27 November 1940) was a Romanian historian, politician, literary critic, memoirist, Albanologist, poet ...

, a historian, ''homme des lettres'' and national conservative politician murdered by the fascist Iron Guard in 1940, whose works Pippidi edits and who also founded the Institute of South Eastern European Studies, where his grandson works.Website of the ''Institutul de Studii Sud-Est Europene'', Bucharest
(retrieved 26 September 2017). Andrei Pippidi is married to the

political scientist Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and power, and the analysis of political activities, political thought, political behavior, and associated constitutions and la ...

Alina Mungiu-Pippidi Alina Mungiu-Pippidi (; born March 12, 1964) is a Romanian political scientist, academic, journalist and writer. A commentator on national politics, she is one of the civil society activists in post-1989 Romania, and, since 1990, an active contrib ...

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Books published in Western languages

* ''Hommes et idées du Sud Est européen à l'aube de l'âge moderne'', Bucharest / Paris (Editura Academiei/Ed. du C.N.R.S.) 1980. * ''Byzantins, Ottomans, Roumains. Le Sud-Est européen entre l’héritage impérial et les influences occidentales,'' Paris (Honoré Champion) 2006, . * ''Visions of the Ottoman World in Renaissance Europe,'' London (Hurst) 2012, .

Books published in Romanian

* ''Contribuții la studiul legilor războiului în evul mediu,'' Bucharest (Editura militară) 1974. * ''Tradiția politică bizantină în țările române în secolele XVI-XVIII,'' Bucharest (Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România) 1983 / 2nd, revised and extended edition Bucharest (Ed. Corint) 2001. * ''Mihai Viteazul în arta epocii sale,'' Cluj-Napoca (Editura Dacia) 1987. * ''România regilor,'' Bucharest (Editura Litera) 1994, . * Bucharest (Editura Staff) 1995, . * ''Despre statui și morminte. Pentru o teorie a istoriei simbolice,'' Iași (Editura Polirom) 2000, . * ''București. Istorie și urbanism, Colecția București care au fost,'' Iași (Editura Do-MinoR) 2002, . * ''Case și oameni din București'', 2 Bde., Bucharest (Editura Humanitas) 2012, / .

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