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  • Vasilij Melik : a Slovene Historian of the Habsburg Long Nineteenth Century
    Stergar, Rok
    In international historiography, Vasilij Melik (1921-2009), professor of modern history at the University of Ljubljana, established himself primarily as a historian of Habsburg elections. His ... unsurpassed ability to explain this complex matter in an elegant and easily understandable manner without sacrificing nuance and detail made his book – published in Slovene and German – and other relevant publications into something every historian of Habsburg elections simply must read. Melik authored additional important books and articles that were limited to a much smaller readership due to only being published in Slovene. They were nevertheless important contributions, relevant not just for the nineteenth-century history of present-day Slovenia but for the entire Empire, or at least its Cisleithanian part. Perhaps the most important was a series of articles that were published in the 1970s and represented a thorough revision of the established narrative. Melik produced a new history of the so-called Slovene lands during the second half of the long nineteenth century, which eschewed unnecessary and unfounded simplifications. Melik’s greatest quality as a historian was that he constantly evolved, that he was not only deeply knowledgeable but also always eager to learn and not afraid to be original, to go against the flow. This made him an original h· In international historiography, Vasilij Melik (1921-2009), professor of modern history at the University of Ljubljana, established himself primarily as a historian of Habsburg elections. His unsurpassed ability to explain this complex matter in an elegant and easily understandable manner without sacrificing nuance and detail made his book – published in Slovene and German – and other relevant publications into something every historian of Habsburg elections simply must read. Melik authored additional important books and articles that were limited to a much smaller readership due to only being published in Slovene. They were nevertheless important contributions, relevant not just for the nineteenth-century history of present-day Slovenia but for the entire Empire, or at least its Cisleithanian part. Perhaps the most important was a series of articles that were published in the 1970s and represented a thorough revision of the established narrative. Melik produced a new history of the so-called Slovene lands during the second half of the long nineteenth century, which eschewed unnecessary and unfounded simplifications. Melik’s greatest quality as a historian was that he constantly evolved, that he was not only deeply knowledgeable but also always eager to learn and not afraid to be original, to go against the flow. This made him an original historian, whose work remains relevant to this day.
    Source: Storia della storiografia. - ISSN 0392-8926 (Vol. 81, 1, 2022, str. 113-120)
    Type of material - article, component part ; adult, serious
    Publish date - 2022
    Language - english
    COBISS.SI-ID - 142610435

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