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

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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.