
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 390 scientific publications and 370 paper presentations.
Areas of Research
- Cultural and Political geography of eastern Europe
- Toponomastics
- Geolinguistics
- Geography of tourism
- Geography of transportation
- Atlas cartography
- Theoretical cartography
Memberships
- 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 8 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
Recent Publications
JORDAN, Peter (2020), Das Wiener Militärgeographische Institut und seine Bedeutung für die Kartographie in Ostmittel- und Südosteuropa. In: Johler, Reinhard; Wolf, Josef (Hg.), Beschreiben und Vermessen. Raumwissen in der östlichen Habsburgermonarchie im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert, S. 521-555. Berlin, Frank & Timme 2020.
JORDAN, Peter (2020), Kulturlandschaften als Stabilitäts- und Identitätsanker unter wechselnden politischen Verhältnissen – gezeigt am Beispiel des östlichen Europas. In: DAHMEN, Wolfgang; HIMSTEDT-VAID, Petra; SCHUBERT, Gabriella (Hg.), Von der Wiederholung zum Ritual. Rezente Prozesse in den Sprachen und Kulturen südosteuropäischer Gesellschaften (= Forschungen zu Südosteuropa, 19), S. 75-90. Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz Verlag 2020.
JORDAN, Peter (2019), Languages and Space-Related Identity: The Rise and Fall of Serbo-Croatian. In: BRUNN, Stanley D.; KEHREIN, Roland (Hg.): Handbook of the Changing World Language Map, S. 541-561. Cham, Springer Nature Switzerland AG Onlineausgabe 2019, Druckausgabe 2020.
JORDAN, Peter (2019), The endonym/exonym divide from a cultural-geographical perspective. In: Language and Society, 10, 2019, S. 5-21.