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Victor Neumann is a Romanian historian, political analyst, and professor at the West University in Timișoara. He is a well-known specialist in the recent cultural and intellectual histories of Eastern and Central Europe (focusing his research on interculturality and multiculturality). Much of his work deals with Conceptual History, history of political thought and theory of history. As of October 2013, he is Director of the Timișoara Art Museum.
Biography
[edit]Born in Lugoj, Victor Neumann graduated from the University of Cluj-Napoca in 1976, and earned his PhD in History from the University of Bucharest in 1992. He was a visiting professor at the Université d'Angers (1999), Emory University in Atlanta, and Georgia State University in Athens, Georgia (1999), the National Foreign Affairs Training Center from Washington, D.C. (2001), and the University of Vienna (2003–2004). He received NATO Scholarship (1995-1997) and he was Fulbright Senior Scholar (September 2000 - September 2001) affiliated with The Catholic University of America and with the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies within the Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C.
Neumann was also head of research at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris, and a lecturer at several higher learning institutions (the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Columbia University, the London School of Slavonic and East European Studies, and the University of Udine).
Works
[edit]Victor Neumann has produced a substantial body of academic work focusing on conceptual history, the history of political thought, and the dynamics of interculturality and multiculturality in Eastern and Central Europe. His publications include numerous authored books, such as The Temptation of Homo Europaeus and The End of a History: The Jews of Banat from the Beginning to Nowadays, as well as edited volumes like Modernity in Central and Southeastern Europe and The Banat of Timișoara: A European Melting Pot. In addition to his independent research, he has contributed to collaborative international projects, translated works by scholars like Reinhart Koselleck, and authored various articles and book chapters analyzing topics ranging from totalitarianism to Romanian-Hungarian relations.
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[edit]- The Romanian Jewish community: Incursion in the life and history of the Jew Community in Timișoara. Important personalities [sic]
- (in Romanian) Biography at Editura Curtea Veche
- (in Romanian) Simona Chitan, "Victor Neumann, evreii şi naţionalismul", in Evenimentul Zilei, March 19, 2006
- Review of Victor Neumann, ed., The Banat of Timişoara: A European Melting Pot (London: Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers, 2019), xvi+495pp. - Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right
