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Ovidiu-Victor Olar

Curriculum Vitae
  • Since 2004: PhD candidate (École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Centre d´étude byzantines, néo-helléniques et sud-est européennes - Paris: "La boutique de Théophile. Les relations de Kyrillos Loukaris (1570/2-1683) avec la Réforme, envisagées surtout d´aprés les lettres d´Antoine Léger" [Coordinator: Mr. Paolo Odorico]
  • 2003-2004: DEA [Diplôme d´études approfondies], Ecole doctorale en sciences sociales, Agence universitaire de la Francophonie (BECO), University of Bucharest
  • 2002-2004: Master, CESI - The Centre of Excellency for the Study of the Image, University of Bucharest (without Master thesis defense)
  • 2001-2003: Master, Faculty of History, University of Bucharest
  • 1996-2000: Faculty of History, "Al. I. Cuza" University, Iaşi.
  • 1992-1996: "Eudoxiu Hurmuzachi" Highschool, Rădăuţi
Grants and research projects
  • 2007-2009: Grant Vestigia. Manusscript Research Centre(Graz): "Die trilingue Handschrift (griechisch, kirchenslawisch und rumänisch) (Bukarest, AdW, ms. 1790, Mitte 17. Jhd.)" [with Cătălina Velculescu, zamfira Mihail and Ileana Stănculescu]
  • 2010-2013: Grant CNCSIS-UEFISCSU (PN II-RU TE 58/2010): "Opera necunoscută a unui carturar romăn din secolul al XVIII-lea: traducerile din italiană şi germană ale lui Vlad Boţulescu. Ediţii critice, studii filologice şi istorice" ("The unknown works of an 18th century Romanian scholar: Vlad Boţulescu´s translations from Italian and German. Critical edition with philological and historical studies") [with Emanuela Timotin, Cristina-Ioana Dima and Andrei Timotin]
  • 2012-2013: "Les Balkans ottomans: conquêtes et identités nationales". Project coordinated by Mrs. Violeta Barbu ("N. Iorga" Instutute of History Bucharest) in partnership with the Institute of Balkan Studies and the Centre of Thracian Studies - Sofia
  • 2012-2016: ANTICORRP (Anticorruption Policies Revisited: Global Trends and European Responses to the Challenge of Corruption) - Work Package 2 (History of Corruption in Comparative Perspective): "Rules of Governance, Exceptions and Networks in Southeastern Europe. Case Study: The Romanian Principalities, 17th-19th Centuries (Individual Project on behalf of the Romanian Academic Society, Bucharest)
  • 2013-2014: "Eastern Travellers in the Romanian Principalities and Russia (Text and Documents)". Project coordinated by Mrs. Ioanan Feodorov (Institue of South-East European Studies, Bucharest) in partnership with the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, St. Petersburg
Contact
Ovidiu-Victor Olar

Room: GA 6/60
Phone: +49 234 32 - 29748
Consultation-hour: by arrangement
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<>Courses Catalog for the Fall Semester 2017/18

040195 Übung für Fortgeschrittene: "Orientalism before Orientalism" - Translating the Quran and Writing Ottoman history in Early Modern Europe,
Do 16:00h - 18:00h, GA 5/39 Zeitungslesesaal


Main research topics
  • Kyrillos Loukaris: His Time, His Work, Its Consequences
  • The cult of the Archangel Michael in Byzantium and beyond
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