{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} thumb|right|'''Peter Vodopivec''' '''Peter Vodopivec''' (born 7 July 1946) is a Slovenian historian and public intellectual.<ref name="slovenskipomlad">{{cite web |title=Vodopivec Peter |url=http://www.slovenskapomlad.si/2?id=35Slovenian |website=slovenskapomlad.si |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111003175733/http://www.slovenskapomlad.si/2?id=35Slovenian |archive-date=3 October 2011 |language=Slovenian}}</ref>
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.<ref name="conflict and memory">{{cite book |last1=Petritsch |first1=Wolfgang |last2=Altmann |first2=Franz-Lothar |last3=Dzihic |first3=Vedran |title=Conflict and Memory: Bridging Past and Future in (South East) Europe |date=2010 |publisher=Nomos |isbn=9783832948795 |page=325}}</ref> 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.<ref name="conflict and memory" />
During the late 1960s, he was active in the student movement in Slovenia.<ref name="Chowdhury">{{cite web |last1=Chowdhury |first1=Sunandan Roy |title=Mapping Minds, Changing Maps: Comparative Understanding of the Role of Universities in Societies Undergoing Transformation |url=http://pdc.ceu.hu/archive/00002591/01/chowdhury.pdf |publisher=Open Society Institute |page=9 |format=PDF |date=2002}}</ref> In the 1980s, he was one of the co-founders of the alternative journal ''Nova revija''.<ref name="slovenskipomlad" /><ref name="Chowdhury" /> In 1989, he was among the founding members of the Slovenian Democratic Union.<ref name="slovenskipomlad" /> 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.<ref name="Planert">{{cite book |last1=Planert |first1=Ute |title=Napoleon's Empire: European Politics in Global Perspective |date=2016 |publisher=Springer |isbn=9781137455475 |page=14 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JSZ8CwAAQBAJ&pg=PR14}}</ref>
Since 1999 he has been a senior research fellow at the Institute for Modern History in Ljubljana.<ref name="Planert" />
==Bibliography== {{Incomplete list|date=December 2021}}
*''Les Slovènes et la France (1914–1920)'' ("The Slovenes and France". Paris: 1983);<ref name="Planert" /> * {{cite journal <!--|author=Vodopivec, Peter |author-mask=1--> |date=Jul–Aug 1996 |title=Intellectuals and power in the former Yugoslavia |journal=Quadrant |volume=40 |issue=7–8 [328] |pages=41–44}} *''Slovenes and Yugoslavia : 1918–1991'' (Berkeley, CA: 1992);<ref>{{cite book |last1=Plut-Pregelj |first1=Leopoldina |last2=Kranjc |first2=Gregor |last3=Lazarević |first3=Žarko |last4=Rogel |first4=Carole |title=Historical Dictionary of Slovenia |date=2018 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=9781538111062 |page=631 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jbhJDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA631}}</ref> *''The Serbs and Croats; their images from a Slovene historical perspective'' (Ljubljana - New York: 1993); *Usoda slovenskih demokratičnih izobražencev: Angela Vode in Boris Furlan, žrtvi Nagodetovega procesa ("The Fate of the Slovenian Democratic Intelligentsia: Angela Vode and Boris Furlan, Victims of the Nagode Trial". Ljubljana, 2001). *''O gospodarskih in socialnih nazorih na Slovenskem v 19. stoletju'' ("Economic and Social Theories in 19th Century Slovene Lands". Ljubljana: 2006); *''Od Pohlinove slovnice do samostojne države: slovenska zgodovina od konca 18. stoletja do konca 20. stoletja'' (From Pohlin's Grammar Book to an Independent State: Slovene History from Late 18th to Late 20th Century". Ljubljana: 2006);<ref name="Planert" /> *''Slowenische Geschichte: Gesellschaft - Politik - Kultur'' ("Slovene History: Society - Politics - Culture". Graz: 2008), with Vasko Simoniti and Peter Štih.<ref name="Planert" />
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== External links == *[https://web.archive.org/web/20080609015158/http://www.rtvslo.si/odprtikop/intervju/peter-vodopivec/ Interview on the Slovenian Television, October 2006] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20090625014310/http://www.ff.uni-lj.si/oddelki/zgodovin/Peter%20Vodopivec%2060%20let/index.html Photos from an honorary lecture at the University of Ljubljana]
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