Brief Biography

Konrad Petrovszky studied history, philosophy, Slavic studies and political sciences at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich and the Free University of Berlin, where he received his PhD in the history of Southeast Europe. His research was supported by the Gerda Henkel Foundation, the fund for the promotion of young scholars granted by the state of Berlin and the Schroubek Fund 'Östliches Europa'. He has cooperated on scientific research and documentation projects (e.g. 'Zwangsarbeit 1939-1945. Erinnerung und Geschichte', by the German Federal Foundation ‘Erinnerung, Verantwortung, Zukunft’) and held fellowships at the New Europe College in Bucharest and the International Research Centre for Cultural Studies (IFK) in Vienna. Besides his research activity, he worked for many years as freelance editor and translator. Between 2013 and 2017, he was assistant professor (Universitätsassistent postdoc), Institute for Eastern European Studies, University of Vienna; between 2024 and 2018 associated researcher of the special research program “Visions of Community. Comparative Approaches to Ethnicity, Religion and Empire in Christianity, Islam and Buddhism (400–1600 CE)“; since 2019 member of the management committee of the COST-Action 18129 "Islamic Legacy: Narratives East, West, South, North of the Mediterranean (1350-1750)".

Research Interests

Period: 15th to 19th centuries.
Area: Southeast Europe and the Danube region, Ottoman Empire
Topics: culture and religion (orthodoxy in the Balkans, veneration of martyrs and saints), writing and media (forms and practices of historical writing, book culture), law and administration in the transition to modernity (corruption, legal traditions, territorial organisation)

Selected Publications

• Writing History in Ottoman Europe, 15th–18th Centuries. Co-ed. with Ovidiu-Victor Olar (forthcoming)
• Language and Society in 18th Century South Eastern Europe/Sprache und Gesellschaft in Südosteuropa im 18. Jahrhundert (= Yearbook of the Society for 18th Century Studies on South Eastern Europe 3/2020), Graz: unipub 2021. Co-ed. with Daniela Haarmann
• Geschichte schreiben im osmanischen Südosteuropa. Eine Kulturgeschichte orthodoxer Historiographie des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts, Harrassowitz: Wiesbaden 2014.
• Das osmanische Europa. Methoden und Perspektiven der Frühneuzeitforschung zu Südosteuropa, Leipzig: Eudora-Verlag, Oktober 2013. Co-ed. with Andreas Helmedach, Markus Koller, Stefan Rohdewald
• Romanian Revolution Televised. Contributions to The Cultural History of Media, Cluj-Napoca: IDEA 2011. Co-ed. with Ovidiu Ţichindeleanu.

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