Curriculum Vitae
Bogdan MURGESCU
Current institutional affiliation:
- University of Bucharest, professor of economic history,
History Department & director, Center for Administrative,
Cultural and Economic Studies
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Office
Address:
Universitatea
din Bucureşti
Facultatea
de Istorie, Bd. Elisabeta 4-12
Centrul
de Studii Administrative, Culturale şi Economice, Bd. M.
Kogălniceanu 36-46, corp CREDIS, et.I, sala 211
Mail:
C.P. 39, O.P. 54, Bucureşti, România
Tel. +40-723-870205
E-mail: bmurgescu@gmail.com
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Private Address:
Str.
Veronica Micle 22, bl.M5, ap.89, sect.1, 011045 Bucureşti,
Romania;
Tel. +40-21-3176609
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Born: April 5, 1963, Bucharest
Marital status: married, 1 daughter
Education and academic degrees:
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B.A. (1986)
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University of Bucharest; History
(major) and Philosophy (minor)
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Ph.D. (1995)
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University of Bucharest, History
(dissertation: The Money Economy in the Romanian Lands in the
16th Century in the Economic Context of Central and South-Eastern
Europe)
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Languages known:
- English - very good
- German - good
- French - good
Professional activity:
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1986,
September – 1990, January
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History
teacher, Industrial High School no.3 Târgovişte
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1990,
January – 1993, February
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Teaching
assistant, History Department, University of Bucharest
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1993,
February – 1997, February
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Lecturer,
History Department, University of Bucharest
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1997,
February – 2000, October
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Associate
Professor, History Department, University of Bucharest
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2000,
October -
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Professor,
History Department, University of Bucharest
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1998,
July – 2000, August
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Roman
Herzog - Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the
Free University Berlin
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2002,
August – 2002, December
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Visiting
Professor, History Department, University of Pittsburgh
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2003,
September – 2003, December
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Senior
Visiting Fellow, Central European University, Budapest
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2004,
September – 2004, December
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visiting
professor, History Department, Central European University,
Budapest
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2006,
October – 2006, December
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Research
Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and of the Hertie
Foundation at the Free University Berlin (resumption of the Roman
Herzog fellowship)
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2007,
March -
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Director,
Center for Administrative, Cultural and Economic Studies,
University of Bucharest
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Research fields:
Economic history, with a special interest in long-term economic
development
Historiography
Post-communist transition
Teaching fields (see also list of courses below):
World history (both surveys of world history, and regional surveys:
history of Ottoman Empire, German history, history of Eastern
Europe, history of Southeast Europe)
Economic history
Methodology of historical research
FURTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY (selection):
Romanian Society for Historical Sciences: vicepresident (at national
level) and president of the Bucharest branch (1999 - )
national coordinator of the competition MY HISTORY – EUSTORY
(2000 - ); member of the Executive Committee of the EUSTORY network
(2001 - )
coordinator of the project “Bodenrecht,
Kataster und Grundbuchwesen im Östlichen Europa 1918 –
1945 – 1989. Polen, Rumänien und Jugoslawien im
Vergleich”, supported by the Volkswagen-Stiftung (with Stefan
Troebst and Hannes Siegrist) (2005 - )
co-coordinator of the CNCSIS research project “Romania’s
Integration in the European Economy. Historical and Contemporary
Dimensions” (2006 - )
coordination partner for Romania in the DAAD-project „South-East
European History as European History“ in the framework of the
program „Academic Reconstruction of South-Eastern Europe”
(2001-2004)
historic advisor, Goethe-Institut Bukarest,
project “Was im Gedächtnis.
bleibt. Jugendbiographien aus Deutschland und Rumänien.
Errinnerungen nach fünfzig Jahren” (2001-2003)
coordinator Workbook 1 Ottoman Empire, Center for Democracy and
Reconciliation in Southeast Europe (2002-2005)
scientific secretary, History Department of the Bucharest University
(1996-2000)
director, Center for Historical, Economic and Social Studies (2003
–2007)
deputy director, Romanian-German Interdisciplinary Research
Institute (1999-2001; member of the board 2001-2004)
member, Romanian Commission for Economic History (1993 - )
member, Scientific Board of the National Institute for the Memory of
the Romanian Exile (2003 -)
member, Scientific Board of the Institute of the Romanian Revolution
of December 1989 (2004 -)
senior advisor – project South-Eastern European History
Network, organized by Civic Education Project, Open Society
Foundation (2001-2004)
advisor – project „Mitteleuropäischer
Wirtschaftstag (MWT)“, Vienna University (2006 – )
Local expert, Phare project “Development of a Qualifications
Framework for Higher Education” (2007 - )
Editorial Boards: “Studii şi
articole de istorie” (2000 - ), „Analele Universităţii
din Bucureşti. Istorie” (1996-2003), „Cercetări
numismatice (2005 - )
organization of several international scientific conferences and
workshops, teacher-training programs etc.
TEACHING (list of
courses taught):
(Bucharest University,
undergraduate)
(1990- ) Medieval and
Early Modern World History
(1992- ) History of the
Ottoman Empire
(1994- ) Problems and
Methods of Economic History
(1994-1995) Money,
economy and society in the ‘long 16th century’
(1995) Space and
regional structures of economic and social integration during the
late medieval and early modern periods
(1995-1996) Trade
between the Ottoman Empire and Christian Europe. The landroutes
(1450-1800)
(1996-2000,
2002, 2006-2007) Disparities and lags of economic and social
development. The long-term perspective (1000-2000)
(2000-2001,
2005-2006) Romania in the European economy. International comparisons
and long-term perspective (1300-2000)
(1996-2003)
Methodological seminar for the preparation of B.A. theses
(2000-2002)
Methodology of historical research
(“Alexandru
Ioan Cuza” Police Academy, Department of Archival Sciences,
undergraduate)
(1994- ) Medieval and
Early Modern World History
(2006- ) The Ottoman
Empire and the Romanian Lands
(2007- ) The Romanian
Lands and Western Europe
(Bucharest University,
graduate)
(1996-2002) German
history (in German)
(1998-2002) Economic
structures in Southeastern Europe (1400-1800)
(2002-2004) The
Romanian Principalities between the Ottoman Empire and Christian
Europe. Economic and political aspects
(University of
Pittsburgh, History Department, undergraduate)
(2002) East European
Civilization (US 200 level)
(2002) Political
history of Southeastern Europe (US 1200 level)
(Central European
University, History Department, graduate)
(2004) Economic history
of East-Central Europe from the Late Middle Ages to World War I (M.A.
level)
(2004) Debates and
controversies on the Ottoman rule in Southeastern Europe (Ph.D.
level)
Invited lectures at: Black Sea Summer University
(1993, 1994), Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (1998,
1999), Universität Bamberg (1998), Freie Universität Berlin
(1999, 2000), Central European University (2003), Diplomatische
Akademie Wien (2005), Universität Wien (2006), Viadrina
Universität Frankfurt/Oder (2006), Romanian Cultural Institute
in Wien (2007)
MAIN PUBLICATIONS:
Books:
Istorie românească - istorie
universală (600-1800) [Romanian History – World History
(600-1800)], Bucureşti, 1994, 150 p. Second revised edition,
Bucureşti, 1999. Book awarded the "Constantin C.
Giurescu" Prize of the Cultural Foundation "Magazin
Istoric"
Circulaţia monetară în Ţările
Române în secolul al XVI-lea [The Money Circulation in
the Romanian Lands during the 16th Century], Bucureşti,
1996. Book awarded the "Nicolae Iorga" Prize of the
Romanian Academy.
A fi istoric în anul 2000 [Being a
Historian in the Year 2000], Bucureşti, 2000.
Coordinated volumes (selection):.
Istoria lumii în texte. De la începuturi
până în zilele noastre [World History in Texts. From
the Beginnings till Nowadays], Bucureşti, 1999.
Romania and Europe. Modernisation as
Temptation, Modernisation as Threat, Bucureşti, 2000.
Faţetele istoriei: existenţe,
identităţi, dinamici. Omagiu Ştefan Ştefănescu
[The Facets of History: Existences, Identities, Dynamics. Volume in
honor to Ştefan Ştefănescu], Bucureşti, 2000.
Istoria României în texte [Romanian
History in Texts], Bucureşti, 2001.
Curtea de Conturi a României 1864-2004.
Culegere de documente [The Account Court of Romania 1864-2004.
Documents], Bucureşti, 2004.
Istoria Curţii de
Conturi a României 1864-2004 [History of the Account
Court of Romania 1864-2004], Bucureşti, 2005. Also English
edition: History of the Romanian Court of Accounts (1864-2004),
Bucharest, 2005, 436 p.
Teaching Modern
Southeast European History. Alternative Educational Materials.
Workbook I. The Ottoman Empire, Thessaloniki, 2005 (with Halil
Berktay).
Articles and book
chapters (selection):
The Ottoman Military Demand and the Romanian
Market. A Case-Study: 1672, "Revue des études sud-est
européennes", 25, 1987, no.4, p.305-313.
Impactul conjuncturii europene asupra
comerţului românesc în a doua jumătate a
secolului al XVII-lea [The impact of the European conjuncture on the
Romanian trade in the second half of the 17th century], "Revista
de istorie", 41, 1988, nr.5, p.514-525 and nr.6, p.587-596.
The World-Approach and Romanian Economic
History, "Revue roumaine d'histoire", XXIX, 1990,
nr.3-4, p.275-289 (with Florin Bonciu).
The Shahis in Walachia, "Revue des
études sud-est européennes", XXXII, 1994, nr.3-4,
p.293-300.
"Phanariots" and "Pamânteni".
Religion and Ethnicity in Shaping Identities in the Romanian
Principalities and the Ottoman Empire, în Maria Crăciun,
Ovidiu Ghitta (eds.), Ethnicity and Religion in Central and
Eastern Europe. Cluj, 1995, p.196-204.
Did Moldavia and Walachia Export Grains during
the 16th Century? în Miscellanea in honorem Radu
Manolescu emerito. Ed. Zoe Petre & Stelian Brezeanu,
Bucureşti, 1996, p.190-199.
Financial Aspects of Walachia's Participation
in the Fifteen Years War, "Analele Universităţii
Bucureşti. Istorie", XLIV, 1995, p.41-50.
Comerţ şi politică în
relaţiile româno-otomane (secolele XVI-XVIII) [Trade and
politics in the Romanian-Ottoman relations (16th-18th centuries)],
"Revista Istorică", VIII, 1997, nr.9-10, p.573-590.
Romanian Information regarding the Ottoman
Capital Market. Prince Constantin Brâncoveanu's Debt-Repayments
1694-1703, "Dünü ve Bugünüyle Toplum ve
Ekonomi", 10, temmuz 1997, p.39-51.
Confessional Polemics and Political Imperatives
in the Romanian Principalities (Late 17th - Early 18th Centuries),
în Maria Crăciun, Ovidiu Ghitta (eds.), Church and
Society in Central and Eastern Europe, Cluj-Napoca, 1998,
p.174-183.
The circulation of the Hungarian denars in the
Romanian Principalities in the 16th century, "Numizmatikai
Közlöny", 96-97, 1997-1998, p.39-44.
Der Anteil der rumänischen Fürstentümer
am europäischen Viehhandel vom 16. bis zum 18. Jahrhundert.
Regelmäßigkeiten und konjunkturelle Schwankungen,
"Scripta Mercaturae", 33, 1999, H.2, p.61-91.
The "modernization" of the Romanian
Principalities during the 16th-17th centuries: patterns, distortions,
prospects, în Modernizacja struktur wladzy w warunkach
opóznienia. Europa srodkowa i Wschodnia na przelomie
sredniowiecza i czasów nowozyntych. Red. Marian Dygo,
Slawomir Gawlas, Hieronim Grala, Warszawa, 1999, p.173-184.
Byzantine and Ottoman Studies in the Romanian
historiography. A brief overview, în Christina Koulouri
(ed.), Clio in the Balkans. The Politics of History Education,
Thessaloniki, 2002, p.148-162.
The Romanian Historiography in the 1990’s,
„Romanian Journal of Political Science”, 3, 2003, no.1,
p.30-59.
Some Considerations on the Romanian
Historiography about the Ottoman-Romanian Commercial Relations,
"Romano-Turcica", I, 2003, p.127-140.
Early Modern
Economies of South Eastern Europe: between Istanbul and the West,
în Almut Bues (ed.), Zones
of Fracture in Modern Europe: the Baltic Countries, the Balkans, and
Northern Italy, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz
Verlag, 2005, p.187-202.
The Economic Performance of Interwar Romania:
Golden Age Myth and Statistical Evidence, „Jahrbücher
für Geschichte und Kultur Südosteuropas”, 6, 2004,
p.43-64.
Geschichte im Transformationsprozeß:
Rumänien, in Helmut Altrichter (hrsg.), GegenErinnerung.
Geschichte als politisches Argument, München, Oldenbourg,
2006, p.237-259.
Alternative istoriografice cu privire la
Revoluţia Română din Decembrie 1989 [Historiographic
Alternatives regarding the Romanian Revolution of December 2006],
„Caietele Revoluţiei”, 1 (3), 2006, p.49-53.
Anything but simple: the case of the Romanian
oil industry, în Helga Schultz, Eduard Kubů (eds.),
History and Culture of Economic Nationalism in East Central
Europe, Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin, 2006, p.231-250.
Die rumänischen
Länder in der frühen Neuzeit,
în Thede Kahl, Michael
Metzeltin, Mihai-Răzvan Ungureanu (hrsg.), Rumänien.
Sonderband der “Österreichischen Osthefte”, Wien,
LIT Verlag, 2006, p.221-235.
Die rumänischen Fürstentümer,
în Handbuch der europäischen
Verfassungsgeschichte im 19. Jahrhundert. Institutionen und
Rechtspraxis im gesellschaftlichen Wandel. Bd. 1: Um 1800.
Herausgegeben von Peter Brandt, Martin Kirsch und Arthur
Schlegelmilch unter redaktioneller Mitwirkung von Werner Daum, Bonn,
Verlag J. H. Dietz, 2006, p.1153-1170 (with Dietmar Müller).
Ponderea cerealelor româneşti în
comerţul european (secolele XVI-XX) [The Part of Romanian Grains
in European Trade (16th-20th centuries], in Maria Mureşan
(coord.), Experienţe istorice de integrare economică
europeană, Bucureşti, Editura ASE, 2006, p.31-57 (with
Viorel Bratosin).
