Arnold Suppan

Posted on Apr 22, 2014
  • Arnold Suppan was born in St. Veit/Glan, Kärnten, Austria, on 18. August 1945.
  • He received bachelor degree in history and germanistics at the University of Vienna, Austria in 1966. After that he entered specialist studies in the History of East European countries. He received his PhD from the University of Vienna, in 1970.
  • From 1971 – 1984 he was the Teaching Assistant at the University of Vienna. In 1984 he was elected into a Dozent and in 1988 to Assistent Professor at the same University. Since January 1, 2000 he is Full Professor in East European History.
  • He was the visiting professor at: University Fribourg in Austria in 1996/97, Diplomatic Academy in Vienna, Austria in 1998/99, Stanford University, USA in 2000, Reichuniversity in Leiden in 2004, University of Budapest, Hungary in 2006/07.

    • Scientific interest

    His scientific interest is in history of East European countries. He published 11 monographs, chapters in 9 monographs, 31 papers as co-author, 185 journal papers and 45 notes. He wrote 21 texts for newspapers and 2 for exhibits. A. Suppan had more than 90 oral presentations in Austria and more than 100 in other countries in the whole world: Varna, Zagreb, Sarajevo, Bukarest, Athens, Ankara, Mainz, Istanbul, New York, Krakow, Bruen, Laibach, Belgrade, Otocec, Bad Homburg, Koszeg, Stuttgart, Banja Luka, Budapest, Strassburg, Posen, Prag, Dubrovnik, Moscow, Sofia, Minneapolis, East Lansing, Pressburg, Madrid, Bielefeld, Stanford, Keszthely, Santiago de Compostela, Leiden, Haag, Amsterdam, Utrecht, Montreal, Saloniki, Caen, Czernowitz, Kiev, Charkow, Tubingen, Bonn, Paris, Kremsier, Boca Raton, Munich, Marburg, Lipica, London, Oppeln, Banska Bystrica, Warszawa, Goettingen, Vaduz, Trient, Edmonton, Jerusalem, Hildesheim. He worked in a significant number of projects as an investigator. In the period of 1985-1990, he was a researcher on the international project entitled: Non-dominant ethnic groups in inter- and trans-state relations 1850-1940, financially supported by European Science Foundation (Strasbourg).

    Prizes

    1979 – Anton Gindely-Preis
    1983 – Förderungspreis der Stadt Wien
    1984 – Leopold Kunschak-Preis
    1988 – Karl von Vogelsang-Staatspreis
    1997 – Ludwig-Jedlicka-Gedächtnispreis
    1998 – Jubiläumsmedaille der Karls-Universität Prag
    1999 – Wissenschaftspreis der Universität Laibach
    2001 – Silberne Medaille der Philosophischen Fakultät der Karls-Universität Prag
    2001 – Österreichisches Ehrenkreuz für Wissenschaft und Kunst I. Klasse

    Monographs

    1. Organisation und Einsätze militärischer Assistenzen in Österreich-Ungarn im Jahre 1918 (Phil.Diss. Wien 1969), 2 Bde., XVIII, 717 S., 64 S. Anhang, 10 Kt.
    2. Innere Front. Militärassistenz, Widerstand und Umsturz in der Donaumonarchie 1918 (Wien 1974), 2 Bde., 420 + 420 S., 72 Abb., 11 Kt. [Autor mit Richard Georg Plaschka und Horst Haselsteiner]
    3. Die österreichischen Volksgruppen. Tendenzen ihrer gesellschaftlichen Entwicklung im 20. Jahrhundert (Wien 1983), 263 S., 3 Kt.
    4. Nachbarschaft zwischen Kooperation und Konfrontation. Politik, Wirtschaft, Minderheiten und Geschichtsbild in den bilateralen Beziehungen Österreichs und Jugoslaviens zwischen den beiden Weltkriegen, 1920-1938 (Habilitationsschrift Geisteswiss. Fakultät Univ. Wien 1984), 2 Bde., VIII, 485 S., 164 S. Fußnoten und Quellen- und Literaturverzeichnis.
    5. Historische Hintergründe des Zerfalls Jugoslawiens (Wien 1993), 40 S., 1 Kt.
    6. Jugoslawien und Österreich 1918-1938. Außenpolitik im europäischen Umfeld (Wien – München 1996), 1348 S., 33 Tab., 45 Abb., 9 Kt.
    7. Deutsche Geschichte im Osten Europas. Zwischen Adria und Karawanken (Berlin 1998, 22002), 480 S., 3 Tab., zahlr. Abb., 7 Kt. [Co-Autoren: Harald Krahwinkler und Marija Wakounig]
    8. Oblikovanje nacije u gradjanskoj Hrvatskoj, 1835 – 1918. [Die Formung der Nation im bürgerlichen Kroatien, 1835 – 1918] (Zagreb 1999), 371 S.
    9. Missgünstige Nachbarn. Geschichte und Perspektiven der nachbarschaftlichen Beziehungen zwischen Tschechien und Österreich (Club Niederösterreich 8/9/2005) 92 S.
    10. Austrians, Czechs, and Sudeten Germans as a Community of Conflict in the Twentieth Century (Working Papers in Austrian Studies 06-1, University of Minnesota, October 2006) 45 S.
    11. Hitler – Beneš – Tito. Konfliktgeschichte in Ostmitteleuropa im 20. Jahrhundert (Wien 2013, im Druck) 1884 S., 13 Kt.

    Memberships

    • Elected corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 1998 and full member in 2003.
    • General Secretary of the Austrian Academy of Sciences 2009-2011.
    • Vice-President of the Austrian Academy of Sciences since 2011.
    • External member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences since 2013.
    • Foreign member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Vojvodina since 2013.
    • Member of the Editorial Board of Croatian History Yearbook, Zagreb since 2005.
    • Member of the Academic Council of the New Anglo-American College in Prague since2007.
    • Member of the Editorial Board of the Austrian History Yearbook, Minneapolis, since 2008, etc.