Peter Vodopivec (born 7 July 1946) is a Slovenian historian and public intellectual. [1]
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He was born in a Slovene family in Belgrade, Serbia, then capital of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He studied History, Comparative Literature and Sociology at the University of Ljubljana. [2] He received a PhD in History in 1978 with his thesis "Middle Class Social and Economic Ideas in Inner-Austria in Pre-March period", and afterwards worked as a researcher on the Age of Enlightenment in France and in the United States. [2]
During the late 1960s, he was active in the student movement in Slovenia. [3] In the 1980s, he was one of the co-founders of the alternative journal Nova revija . [1] [3] In 1989, he was among the founding members of the Slovenian Democratic Union. [1] After 1992, he left politics and dedicated himself to scholarly work.
He was Professor of Modern European and American History at the University of Ljubljana from 1980 to 1999. [4]
Since 1999 he has been a senior research fellow at the Institute for Modern History in Ljubljana. [4]
