„I was fortunate to have met the personalities of German and Austrian histori¬cal science who generously opened the door of their scientific research.“ Interview with Historian Peter Švorc Cover Image

„Mal som šťastie na osobnosti nemeckej a rakúskej historickej vedy, ktoré mi veľkoryso otvárali dvere do ich vedeckovýskumného prostredia.“ Rozhovor s historikom Petrom Švorcom
„I was fortunate to have met the personalities of German and Austrian histori¬cal science who generously opened the door of their scientific research.“ Interview with Historian Peter Švorc

Author(s): Peter Zmátlo
Subject(s): History, Philosophy
Published by: VERBUM - vydavateľstvo Katolíckej univerzity v Ružomberku
Keywords: Interview; Peter Švorc;

Summary/Abstract: Prof. PhDr. Peter Švorc, CSc., was born on January 31, 1957 in Liptovský Mikuláš and he grew up in Štrba. After graduating from the Faculty of Arts and Letters of Pa¬vol Jozef Šafárik University in Prešov with a degree in Philosophy and History, he worked as a specialist at the Eastern Slova¬kia Museum in Košice (1981 – 1983). After that, until now, he has been a member of the Department of History (now named the Institute of History) of the Faculty of Arts and Letters of Pavol Jozef Šafárik University (now the University of Prešov) in Prešov. He received his habilitation in 1998 having written a thesis Slovaks, Ruthenians, Ukrainians and the Issue of Czechoslovak Statehood in the First Two Decades of the 20th Cen¬tury. His monograph Border between Slovakia and Subcarpathian Rus in the Interwar Period (1919 – 1939) marked his inauguration into professorship in 2003 in the field of history. Prof. Švorc was a member of the Academic Senate of Pavol Jozef Šafárik University, a vice-chairman of the Academic Senate of the University of Prešov and the chairman of the Aca¬demic Senate of Faculty of Arts and Letters of Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Prešov. In the years 2011 – 2012 he served as a vice-dean of the Faculty of Arts and Letters of the University of Prešov. At present (2020) he is the head of the Department of Modern and Contemporary Slovak History at the Institute of History of the Faculty of Arts and Letters of the University of Prešov. His scientific research, which originally had an ethnographic angle, focused on the his¬tory of the Slovak village with particular attention to the process of collectivization in the 50’s and 60’s of the 20th century. He later broadened his research into the interwar and war period years of 1918 – 1945. The second area of his research (which gained the scholarships support from several foreign institutions such as Volkswagen-Stiftung or DAAD) was in Slovak emigration to the USA at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The topic of interwar Czechoslovakia followed the research into the history of the Czech and Slovak resistance of 1914 – 1918. It was supplemented by research into the history of Subcarpathian Rus during the years 1918 – 1945, specifically into the issue of the border between Slovakia and Sub carpathian Rus, which was one of the open issues in Slovak-Ruthenian and Ukrainian relations in the interwar period. The topic of Church history was another one of prof. Švorc’s research interests, especially the history of the Evangelical Church in Slovakia.

  • Issue Year: 11/2020
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 300-312
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Slovak