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

Research projects

• Politics & poetics of toponymy, identity and place in multilingual areas
• Atlas of Eastern and Southeastern Europe

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

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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.