Stefan Troebst - Biography#

Stefan Troebst (*1955) is a historian and Slavicist. From 1999 to 2021 he was Professor of East European Cultural History at Leipzig University and deputy director of the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of East-Central Europe. At Leipzig University’s Global and European Studies Institute he was in charge of the master programm “European Studies”.

He studied in Tübingen (West Germany) at the Free University of Berlin (West), Sofia (Bulgaria), Skopje (then Yugoslavia, later on Macedonia, today North Macedonia), Bloomington, IN (U. S. A.), and holds a Ph. D. degree in Russian and East European History and Slavic Studies by the Free University of Berlin where he also completed his habilitation.

His fields of research are international and interethnic relations in modern Eastern Europe as well as the comparative cultural history of contemporary Europe. He has published widely on culture, history and politics of the Balkans, East-Central Europe, Russia and the Baltic Sea Region. His current research focuses on the impact of Eastern Europe’s conflict history on the development of modern international public law, on politics of history in the wider Europe and on the Armenian presence in the history and culture of East-Central Europe.

From 1984 to 1991, he was Assistant Professor and Associate Professor of Soviet and East European History at the Institute of Russia and Eastern Europe of the Free University of Berlin. From 1992 to 1995, he worked as German member of missions of long duration of the Conference for (later: Organization on) Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE/OSCE) in Macedonia and Moldova as well as a senior analyst of the Aspen-Carnegie International Commission on the Balkans. From 1996 to 1998, he served as founding director of the Danish-German European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI) in Flensburg.