Jože Pirjevec (born 1 June 1940), registered at birth Giuseppe Pierazzi because of the

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policy under the Fascist regime, is a Slovene–

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historian and a prominent diplomatic historian of the west

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region, as well as a member of the

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Biography

He was born in a Slovene-speaking family in

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, Slovenia, then part of the fascist Kingdom of Italy. His younger sister, Marija, became a translator and literary scholar. After

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, the family moved from Yugoslavia to the Free Territory of Trieste. In 1966, he received a degree in history from the

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and in 1971 graduated from the University of Pisa. He continued his studies at the Diplomatic Academy in Vienna. In 1977, he obtained his PhD in Ljubljana under the supervision of historian Fran Zwitter. In 1983 he became an associate professor at the

, and in 1986 a full professor of Eastern European history at the Faculty of Political Science in Padua. He initially researched the relations between Italy and the South Slavs, South Slavic peoples during the Risorgimento in mid 19th century. He continued with research on Russian history in the second half of the 19th century. Since the 1980s, he has been researching and publishing on the history of Yugoslavia, the Yugoslav wars and the history of the Slovenes in Italy. In 1988 he received the Kidrič Fund Award for his book ''Tito, Stalin and the West'', and in 2002 he received the Premio Acqui Award for his monograph on the 1991-1999 Yugoslav Wars. He is currently head of the history department at the University of Primorska in Koper. In 2009, he was elected a full member of the

. He has also been active in public life, including party politics. In the 1990s, he was an active member of the Slovene Union, the centrist party of the Slovene minority in the Italian region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia. Since 2005, he has been an active member of the Liberal Democracy of Slovenia. In 2008, he unsuccessfully ran for the Slovenian Parliament in the district of

. Pirjevec is both an Italian and Slovenian citizen. Besides Slovene and Italian language, Italian, he is fluent in German language, German, English language, English, Serbo-Croatian, Russian language, Russian and French language, French languages. He is a member of the Honorary Board of the European Association of History Educators.

Major works

In Italian *''Niccolò Tommaseo tra Italia e Slavia'' ("Niccolò Tommaseo between Italy and the Slavic World"). Venice: Marsilio, 1977. *''Storia della Russia del XIX secolo (1800-1917)'' ("History of Russia in the 19th Century (1800-1917)"). Padua: Francesco Vallardi, 1984. *''Tito, Stalin e l'Occidente'' ("Josip Broz Tito, Tito, Joseph Stalin, Stalin and the West"). Trieste: Editoriale Stampa Triestina, 1985. *''Trieste, città di frontiera'' ("Trieste, a City on the Border). Trieste: Lint, 1989. *''Il Giorno di san Vito. Jugoslavia 1918-1992: storia di una tragedia'' ("St. Vitus Day. Yugoslavia 1918-1992: History of a Tragedy). Turin: Nuova Eri, 1993. *''Serbi, Croati, Sloveni : storia di tre nazioni'' ("Serbs, Croats, Slovenes: History of Three Nations"). Bologna: Il Mulino, 1995. *''L'altra resistenza: la guerra di liberazione a Trieste e nella Venezia Giulia'' ("The Other Resistance: the Liberation Fight in Trieste and the Julian March"), co-authored with Marta Verginella and Roberto Spazzali. Trieste: Qualestoria, 1995. *''Storia degli sloveni in Italia, 1866-1998'' ("History of the Slovenes in Italy, 1866-1998). Co-authored with Milica Kacin Wohinz. Venice: Marsilio, 1998. *''Le guerre jugoslave, 1991-1999'' ("The Yugoslav Wars"). Turin: Giulio Einaudi Editore, 2001. *''Foibe : una storia d'Italia'' ("Foibe massacres, Foibe: An Italian History). Turin: Giulio Einaudi Editore, 2009. In Slovene *''Tržaški vozel. 1945-1980'' ("The Trieste Knot. 1945-1980"). Trieste: Založništvo tržaškega tiska, 1985. *''Vojna in mir na Primorskem'' ("War and Peace in the Slovenian Littoral"), editor. Koper: University of Primorska, 2005. *''"Trst je naš!" Boj Slovencev za morje (1848-1954)'' ("'Trieste Is Ours!' The Slovene Struggle for the Access to the Sea (1848-1954)"). Ljubljana: ''Nova revija (magazine), Nova revija'', 2007. *''Tito in tovariši'' ("Tito and the Comrades"). Ljubljana: Cankarjeva založba, 2011.

References

External links

Report on Pirjevec's campaign activities during the 2008 parliamentary elections on the webpage of the Liberal Democracy of Slovenia
* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Pirjevec, Joze 20th-century Slovenian historians 20th-century Italian historians Italian Slovenes Historians of the Balkans University of Trieste alumni University of Pisa alumni University of Ljubljana alumni Academic staff of the University of Trieste Academic staff of the University of Pisa Academic staff of the University of Padua Academic staff of the University of Primorska Members of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts 1940 births Living people 21st-century Italian historians 21st-century Slovenian historians