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Dr.
Konrad Petrovszky
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Konrad Petrovszky is group leader at the research unit Balkan Studies.

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 young researches Grant Programme of the city of Berlin and the Schroubek Fond '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. Currently, he serves as chairman of the Society for 18th Century Studies on South Eastern Europe, as co-editor of Schriften zur Balkanforschung, and as key researcher within the FWF Cluster of Excellence ‘Eurasian Transformations’.

Research Interests

Period: 15th to 19th centuries.
Area: Southeast Europe and the Danube region, Ottoman Empire
Topics: Writing and media (historiography, book culture, multilingualism); Governance and scholarly cultures (Phanariots, diplomacy around 1800); Culture and religion (Orthodoxy in the Balkans, veneration of martyrs and saints, circulation of knowledge between Vienna, Istanbul and Venice)

 

Selected Publications

  • Writing History in Ottoman Europe (Fifteenth – Eighteenth Centuries), eds. with Ovidiu-Victor Olar, Leiden: de Gruyter Brill 2026
  • 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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Books

Editions and Collections

  • Writing History in Ottoman Europe, 15th–18th Centuries. / Olar, Ovidiu-Victor (Editor); Petrovszky, Konrad (Editor).
    Leiden: Brill, 2026. (The Ottoman Empire and its Heritage; Vol. 82).
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  • 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). / Haarmann, Daniela (Editor); Petrovszky, Konrad (Editor).
    Graz: unipub, 2021.
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Articles

  • „Sick of hammering on M.“: – zu den politischen und biographischen Hintergründen von Hammer-Purgstalls "Geschichte des Osmanischen Reichs". / Petrovszky, Konrad.
    Homo-Politicus in the Balkans: Early Modern Southeast European History in Imperial and Regional Context. ed. / Maria Baramova. Vol. 105 Stuttgart: Franz Steiner-Verlag, 2026. p. 169-182 (Historische Mitteilungen - Beihefte).
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  • Connecting Views. Towards a History of Historiography of Ottoman Europe, 1500–1800. / Petrovszky, Konrad; Olar, Ovidiu-Victor.
    Writing History in Ottoman Europe, 15th–18th Centuries. Leiden: Brill, 2026. p. 1-19 (The Ottoman Empire and its Heritage; Vol. 82).
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  • Narrating the Past, Locating the Self: Matthaios of Myra and Synadinos of Serres, Two Clerics from 17th-Century Ottoman Europe. / Petrovszky, Konrad.
    Identifications of Orthodox Christians in the Ottoman Balkans (c.1450-c.1750). ed. / Marija Vasiljević. Beograd: Institute for Balkan Studies of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts , 2026. p. 351-373.
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  • "Memleketimizin güzel ve Kadim âdetlerini bozanlar": 16.-17. yüzyıllarda tuna prensliklerinde yunan düşmanlığı (Übs. von Those Violating the Good, Old Customs of our Land: Forms and Functions of Graecophobia in the Danubian Principalities, 16th–18th Centuries). / Petrovszky, Konrad; Karateke, Hakan T (Editor); Çıpa, H (Editor) et al.
    Osmanlı Toplumunda Ötekileştirme, Düşmanlık ve Nefret (16.-18. Yüzyıllar). Istanbul: Iletişim, 2022. p. 235-264.
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  • Potemkinsche Lettern zur Zeit der Französischen Revolution. Der ‚Courier der Moldavie‘ von 1790. / Petrovszky, Konrad; Augustynowicz, Christoph (Editor); Hüchtker, Dietlind (Editor) et al.
    Perlen geschichtswissenschaftlicher Reflexion. Östliches Europa, sozialgeschichtliche Interventionen, imperiale Vergleiche. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2022. p. 77–84.
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  • Keeping One’s Composure. Levantine Femininities in Hammer-Purgstall’s Travel Accounts and Memoirs. / Petrovszky, Konrad; Gruber, Doris (Editor); Strohmeyer, Arno (Editor).
    On the Way to the ‘(Un)Known?’ The Ottoman Empire in Travelogues (c. 1450–1900). Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2022. p. 337-361 (Studies on Modern Orient).
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  • Political Zoology around 1700: Dimitrie Cantemir’s “Hieroglyphic History”. / Petrovszky, Konrad.
    In: Nesir. Journal of Literary Studies, Vol. 1, No. 2021, 28.10.2021, p. 177-182.
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  • The Excommunication of a Greek-Orthodox Priest. Synadinos of Serres, composed ca. 1642. / Petrovszky, Konrad; Karateke, Hakan (Editor); Anetshofer, Helga (Editor).
    The Ottoman World: A Cultural History Reader, 1400–1700. Berkeley: Unknown Publisher, 2021. p. 23-28.
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  • La mission diplomatique de Joseph von Hammer à Jassy. Édition d'une source méconnue. / Petrovszky, Konrad.
    In: Revue des études sud-est européennes, Vol. 56, No. 2018, 05.10.2018, p. 255-288.
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  • ‘Those Violating the Good, Old Customs of our Land’: Forms and Functions of Graecophobia in the Danubian Principalities, 16th–18th Centuries. / Petrovszky, Konrad; Karateke, Hakan T (Editor); Çıpa, H (Editor) et al.
    Disliking Others: Loathing, Hostility, and Distrust in Premodern Ottoman Lands. Brighton, MA: Academic Studies Press, 2018. p. 187-214.
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  • Marginal Notes in South Slavic Written Culture. Between Practising Memory and Accounting for the Self. / Petrovszky, Konrad.
    In: Cahiers du Monde Russe, Vol. 58, No. 3, 15.12.2017, p. 483-502.
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  • Pajsije of Janjevo. / Petrovszky, Konrad; Thomas, David (Editor); Chesworth, John (Editor).
    Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History. Volume 10 Ottoman and Safavid Empires (1600-1700). Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2017. p. 235-244 (Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History).
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  • Die Makellose und ihre unheimlichen Avatare – der Paraskeva-Kult in Südosteuropa als kulturelle Bricolage. / Petrovszky, Konrad; Jobst, Kerstin Susanne (Editor); Huechtker, Dietlind (Editor).
    Heilig. Transkulturelle Verehrungskulte vom Mittelalter bis in die Gegenwart. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2017. p. 115–142.
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  • „Wir, die armen Rhomäer“: zur Frage der Selbstverortung der christlichen Geschichtsschreiber im Osmanischen Reich. / Petrovszky, Konrad.
    In: Geschichte in Wissenschaft und Unterricht, Vol. 5-6, 15.05.2017, p. 250-264.
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Other Publications

  • Der europäische Koran und die Leerstelle Balkan.Petrovszky, Konrad (Author). 2025. Der Standard.
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  • Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall als Orientreisender. / Petrovszky, Konrad.
    2023.
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  • Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall und der griechische Unabhängigkeitskrieg: Wie der Konflikt mit dem allmächtigen Staatskanzler Metternich seinen politischen Ambitionen ein Ende setzte.Petrovszky, Konrad (Author). 2020.
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  • Eine Korruptionsgeschichte aus dem Istanbul des Jahres 1765.Der aufsehenerregende Fall des "größenwahnsinningen Griechen" Georgis Stavrakis. / Petrovszky, Konrad.
    In: Der Standard, 12.09.2018.
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  • Konrad Petrovszky: Rezension zu: Zimmermann, Tanja: Der Balkan zwischen Ost und West. Mediale Bilder und kulturpolitische Prägungen. Köln 2014 , in: H-Soz-Kult, 03.11.2017, <www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/rezbuecher-2118. / Petrovszky, Konrad.
    In: N/A, 03.11.2017.
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Research

Forms of Knowledge

News

Der europäische Koran und die Leerstelle Balkan

Publications

(with Ovidiu Olar):  Writing History in Ottoman Europe (15th–18th Centuries)

Secularisation between the Adriatic and the Carpathians