
HR Prof. h.c. Univ.-Doz. Dr.
Peter Jordan
Retired staff member
T +43 1 51581 - 3539
peter.jordan(at)oeaw.ac.at
Biography
Born 1949 in Hermagor/Carinthia [Kärnten], Austria; studied geography and ethnology at the Vienna University, PhD 1979; 1998 habilitation at the Klagenfurt University; 1977-1988 map editor at the Atlas of the Danubian Countries; 1989-2014 editor-in-chief, Atlas of Eastern and Southeastern Europe with 30 instalments published; 1994-1998 project manager, Resources and Environment - World Atlas; 1997-2001 deputy director, 2002-2005 director, Austrian Institute of East and Southeast European Studies; from 2007 at the Institute of Urban and Regional Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences. Research fields: Cultural and Political geography of eastern Europe, geography of tourism, toponomastics, geolinguistics, geography of transportation, atlas cartography, theoretical cartography. Teaches at the universities of Vienna, Klagenfurt and Cluj-Napoca (Romania); more than 410 scientific publications and 379 paper presentations.
Areas of Research
- Cultural and Political geography of eastern Europe
- Toponomastics
- Geolinguistics
- Geography of tourism
- Geography of transportation
- Atlas cartography
- Theoretical cartography
Research projects
- The publication of a book on the standardization of place names in minority languages in Europe is planned for 2023.
Title of this book Minority place-name standardization. A comparison of regulations and approaches in Europe - Politics & poetics of toponymy, identity and place in multilingual areas
- Atlas of Eastern and Southeastern Europe
Memberships
- Vice-President, International Council of Onomastic Sciences (ICOS)
- ICA Chair, Joint ICA/IGU Commission on Toponymy
- ICA Liaison Officer, United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names (UNGEGN)
- Research fellow, University of the Free State, Faculty of the Humanities (South Africa)
- Corresponding Member, Permanent Committee on Geographical Names (StAGN)
- Chairman of the Austrian IGU National Committee
- Member, Executive Board, Austrian Geographical Society (ÖGG) Österreichischen Geographischen Gesellschaft (ÖGG)
- Editor (together with Paul Woodman) of the toponymic book series „Name & Place. Contributions to Toponymic Literature and Research“, Verlag Dr. Kovač, Hamburg, so far 9 volumes published
Editorial board member with the periodicals
- „Mitteilungen der Österreichischen Geographischen Gesellschaft“ (Wien)
- „Bulletin of Geography” (Thorn [Toruń])
- „Romanian Review of Regional Studies“ (Klausenburg [Cluj-Napoca])
- „Review of Historical Geography and Toponomastics“ (Temeswar [Timişoara])
- „Acta Universitatis Palackianae Olomucensis, Geographica“ (Olmütz [Olomouc])
- “Földrajzi Értesitő – Hungarian Geographical Bulletin“ (Budapest)
- „Journal of Urban and Regional Analysis“ (Bukarest [Bucureşti])
- „Acta geographica Slovenica – Geografski zbornik“ (Laibach [Ljubljana])
- „Geographia Napocensis“ (Klausenburg [Cluj-Napoca])
- “Bulletin of the National Museum” (Chişinău)
- “Regional Statistics” [Területi Statisztika] (Budapest)
- “Geografický časopis” (Pressburg [Bratislava])
- “Collana Studi i Ricerche” (Rom [Roma])
- Overland, Geo. Journal of Geography, Geopolitics, Geoeconomics” (Rom [Roma])
- “Onomàstica”(Barcelona)
- “Europäisches Journal für Minderheitenfragen” (Bozen/Bolzano)
Awards
- 1978
Dr. Adolf Schärf Award - 1995
Honorary Member, Croatian Geographical Society - 2006
Honorary Member, Hungarian Geographical Society - 2007
Honorary Professor, Babes Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, Romania - 2014
Honorary Member, Czech Geographical Society
Honorary Member, Moldavian Society for Geography and Ethnology
Great Distinction for Merits for the Republic of Austria - 2015
Honorary Member, Austrian Geographical Society
Honorary Member, Romanian Geographical Society - 2017
Honorary Member, Association of Slovenian Geographers
Research Fellow, University of the Free State, Südafrika
United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names, Certificate of Commendation - 2018
Honorary Member, Polish Geographical Society - 2019
Einspieler Award for special merits for the Slovenian ethnic group in Austria - 2020
Great Badge of Honor of the State of Carinthia
Recent Publications
JORDAN, Peter; MÁCHA, Přemysl; BALODE, Marika; KRTIČKA, Luděk; OBRUSNÍK, Uršula; PILCH, Pavel; SANCHO REINOSO, Alexis (2021), Place-Name Politics in Multilingual Areas. A Comparative Study of Southern Carinthia (Austria) and the Těšín/Cieszyn Region (Czechia). Cham, Palgrave Macmillan, XIX+616 Seiten.
DOLLIMORE, Allison; JORDAN, Peter (Hg.) (2021), Place Names and Migration. Proceedings of the Symposium in Vienna, 6-8 November 2019 (= Name & Place, 9). Hamburg, Verlag Dr. Kovač. 283 Seiten.
JORDAN, Peter (2021), Austria. In: MARTÍ-HENNEBERG, Jordi (Hg.): European Regions 1870-2020. A Geographical and Historical Insight into the Process of European Integration, S. 189-218. Cham, Springer.
JORDAN, Peter (2021), Yugoslavia and Successor States. In: MARTÍ-HENNEBERG, Jordi (Hg.): European Regions 1870-2020. A Geographical and Historical Insight into the Process of European Integration, S. 311-344. Cham, Springer.
JORDAN, Peter (2021), The crucial and contested concept of the endonym/exonym divide. In: Onomastica, LXV, 2021, S. 23-37.