Alvydas Nikžentaitis (born October 18, 1961) is a

Lithuania Lithuania, officially the Republic of Lithuania, 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, bordered by Latvia to the north, Belarus to the east and south, P ...

n historian, senior research fellow of the Lithuanian Institute of History 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 sovereign state in northeastern Europe that existed from the 13th century, succeeding the Kingdom of Lithuania, to the late 18th century, when the territory was suppressed during the 1795 Partitions of Poland, ...

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 (academia), rector of Klaipėda University. Biography Žulkus started his career as an archaeologist in the Institute for Mon ...

he founded Centre of History of Western Lithuania and Prussia (from 2003 - Institute of Baltic Sea Region History and Archaeology) 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 ( or KU) is a university in the Lithuanian port city of Klaipėda. Overview Klaipėda University was formally founded on 1 January 1991, by a decree of the Seimas (the Lithuanian parliament). The new university incorpora ...

. 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 Institute of Baltic Sea Region History and Archaeology and till 2009 he was also professor of Lithuanian History at Vilnius Pedagogical University, 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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References

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 Academic staff of the Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences Academic staff of Klaipėda University 21st-century Lithuanian historians