Oto Luthar

Oto Luthar (born 11 August 1959) is a Slovenian historian. Since 1992, he has served as the director of the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Ljubljana, the second largest research institution in Slovenia.

He was born in Murska Sobota, Slovenia, then part of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He studied history at the University of Ljubljana, graduating under the supervision of Peter Vodopivec and  Bogo Grafenauer in 1986. He obtained his PhD in 1992. Since 1989, he has taught history at the University of Maribor, University of Nova Gorica and University of Ljubljana. He was a visiting professor and researcher at Yale University (1999-2000), Vienna University (2008), Columbia University (2013) and Ohio State University (2016).

He has written on numerous subjects, including the history and theory of historiography, politics of memory,  the history of European Jews, especially their relation to Slavic peoples, and the social and cultural history of World War I. He is a coordinator of the Module of Culture History at ZRC SAZU Graduate School. In 2011, Luthar was awarded the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art.

He is married to the cultural critic and sociologist Breda Luthar.


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