ao. Univ.-Prof. i.R. Dr. Claudia Römer

http://homepage.univie.ac.at/claudia.roemer/

Summer term 2025

141171 UE Translating Turkish Texts

Summer term 2024

141029 SE M2 Ottoman Empire in Transformation: From Empire to Nation I: State and Society

141055 UE Reading Subject-Specific Texts II

Römer, C. (2021). Andreas Tietze and his approach to Ottoman prose. Paper presented at Avusturya Türkolojisi Sempozyumu , Ankara, Turkey.

Römer, C. (Accepted/In press). Sebastian Tengnagel, librarian at the Vienna Imperial Library and his quest for manuscripts, 1603-1630. In T. Artan, & H. Aynur (Eds.), Ottoman Manuscript Collections and Collectors: Orientalists, Travelers and Diplomats Brill.

Römer, C. (2020). ’Faḳīr olub perākende olmaġa yüz ṭutmışlar’ – the Ottoman Struggle against the Displacement of Subjects in the Early Modern Period. In I. Zimonyi (Ed.), Ottomans – Crimea – Jochids. Studies in Honour of Mária Ivanics (pp. 269-279).

Römer, C. (2019). Determining the origin of some marginal notes of ms. ÖNB H.O. 42a through ink analysis. Museen der Stadt Wien.

Römer, C. (2019). “Networks of witnesses at the 16th-century cadi court of Siklós, Hungary?”. In A. Krah (Ed.), Quellen, Nachbarschaft, Gemeinschaft. Auf dem Weg zu einer gemeinsamen Kulturgeschichte Zentraleuropas. Böhlau, Wien – Köln – Weimar (pp. 47-56). Böhlau: Wien / Köln /Weimar.

Römer, C., Brenner, S., Cappa, F., Frühmann, B., Hammerschmidt, E.-G., & Schreiner, M. (2019). Recovering a 16th-century Ottoman document damaged by spilled ink. In A. Miltenova, V. Baranov, H. Miklas, K. Hawkins, & J. Fuchsbauer (Eds.), Digital and Analytical Approaches to the Written Heritage. Proceedings of the 7th international conference El’Manuscript, “Textual Heritage and Information Technologies”, 2018. Дигитални и аналитични подходи към писменото наследство Материали от 7-мата международна конференция El’Manuscript ,,Писменото наследство и информационните технологии“ (pp. 220-239). Gutenberg Publishing House.

Römer, C., & Vatin, N. (2019). The Hungarian Frontier and Süleyman’s Way to Szigetvár according to Ottoman Sources. In The Battle for Central Europe. The Siege of Szigetvár and the Death of Süleyman the Magnificent and Nicholas Zrínyí (1566) (pp. 341-358). Brill.

Römer, C., & Vatin, N. (2019). “The Lion that was only a Cat: Some notes on the last years of Arslan Pasha, Bey of Semendire and Beylerbeyi of Buda”, in: Fodor, Pal – Nándor E. Kovács – Péri Benedek (eds.), Research Centre for the Humanities of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Budapest 2019. In P. Fodor, N. E. Kovács, & P. Benedek (Eds.), Şerefe. Studies in Honour of Prof. Géza Dávid on his Seventieth Birthday. 21st-Century Studies in Humanities (pp. 159-182). Research Centre for the Humanities of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Römer, C. (2019). Zur Rhetorik von Macht und Legitimität, Gerechtigkeit und Freundschaft in osmanischer Korrespondenz mit den Habsburgern des 16. Jahrhunderts. In S. Plaggenborg (Ed.), Gerechtigkeit und gerechte Herrschaft vom 15.-17. Jahrhundert. Beiträge zur historischen Gerechtigkeitsforschung. (Vol. 101, pp. 177-190). de Gruyter Oldenbourg.

Römer, C. (2019). “Zwei Problemfälle osmanischer Archivalien”. Paper presented at Drittmitteltag der philologisch-kulturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät, Wien, Austria.

Römer, C. (2018). Andreas Tietze and his Tape Collection. Jahrbuch des Phonogrammarchivs der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 8 (2017), 109-115.

Römer, C. (2018). “Determining the origin of some marginal notes of ms. ÖNB H.O. 42a through ink analysis”. Session “From Analogue Death to Digital Rebirth. Reconstructing Written Heritage”.. Paper presented at CHNT - Cultural Heritage and New Technologies, Vienna, Austria.

Römer, C. (2018). Meninski's Grammar Simplified: Thomas von Chabert's Manual Kurze Anleitung zur Erlernung der türkischen Sprache für Militär Personen Vienna 1789. EB-Verlag. Otto Spies Memorial Lecture

Römer, C., Brenner, S., Cappa, F., Frühmann, B., Hammerschmidt, E.-G., Schreiner, M., & Vetter, W. (2018). “Recovering a 16th-century Ottoman document damaged by spilled ink” together with S. Brenner, F.Cappa, B. Frühmann, E.-G. Hammerschmid, M. Schreiner, W. Vetter, El’Manuscript 2018, Vienna – Krems 14-16 September 2018.. Paper presented at El'Manuscript, Wien-Krems, Austria.

Römer, C. (2017). Comets as Bringers of Evil in 17th-Century Ottoman Belief. In É. Csáki, & M. Ivanics (Eds.), The Role of Religions in the Turkic Culture held on 9–11 September 9-11, 2015 in Budapest (pp. 123-140).

Römer, C. (2017). Foreword. In P. Stephan, & R. Stiegner (Eds.), Süd-Arabien / South-Arabia: A Great "Lost Corridor" of Mankind. A Collection of Papers Dedicated to the Re-establishment of South Arabian Studies in Austria. Volume 1 (Vol. 10/1). Ugarit-Verlag.

Römer, C. (2017). Thomas de Chabert et sa pièce de théâtre franco-osmanlie de l'année 1810. In A. Etensel İldem, N. Demir, G. Çetin, & Ç. Eroğlu (Eds.), Turqueries et regards croisés entre l’Orient et l’Occident 12-13 mai 2016 , Colloque international, 12-14 mai 2016 (Vol. 421, pp. 143-150). Ankara Üniversitesi Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi Yayınları.

Römer, C. (2017). 16ncı yüzyıl Osmanlı vesikalarının bazısına nesir şaheseri denilebilir mi? In M. Isen (Ed.), Klasik Edebiyatımızın Dili (Bildiriler) (pp. 421-429).

Römer, C. (2016). An attempt at reconstructing the Ottoman correspondence during Grand Vizier Ibrahim Paşa’s 1525 mission to Egypt. In The Mamluk-Ottoman Transition: Continuity and Change in Egypt and Bilād al-Shām in the Sixteenth Century. (pp. 115-126)

Römer, C. (2016). Early transcription methods at the K.K. Akademie Orientalischer Sprachen in Vienna according to students’ exercise books. In A. Krah (Ed.), En route to a shared Identity. New or unknown sources on the history and Cultural Heritage of Central Europe in the digital Age 15-16 February 2016 https://dighist.hypotheses.org/

ao. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Claudia Römer
Department of Near Eastern Studies
Spitalgasse 2, Hof 4
1090 Wien
Austria

Research interests

Ottoman diplomatics
Ottoman social and economic history
Ottoman historical grammar, syntax
Development of Ottoman vocabulary
Persian-Ottoman written language contact
Image and material analysis as a tool for manuscript studies

Curriculum vitae

Born 1956 in Vienna
1962-1974 school in Vienna
1974-1980 Turkish and Arabic Studies at the University of Vienna
1980: PhD, Turkish Studies

PhD thesis: Der Einfluß der Übersetzungen aus dem Persischen auf die Entwicklung des Osmanischen im 14. und 15. Jahrhundert

1979-1980: Scholarship of the Bundesministerium für Wissenschaft und Forschung via the Orientalische Gesellschaft for editing Ottoman Turkish documents from the Vienna Haus-, Hof- und Staatsarchiv (A.C. Schaendlinger) at the Institute of Middle Eastern Studies.
1980-1984: Scholarship of the Bundesministerium für Wissenschaft und Forschung for editing Ottoman Turkish documents from the Vienna Haus-, Hof- und Staatsarchiv (A.C. Schaendlinger) at the Institute of Middle Eastern Studies.
1982: Two-week international intensive seminar of Ottoman paleography in Visegrád, organized by Eötvös Lorand University Budapest (Prof. Gyula Káldy-Nagy) and CIBAL, Sofia (Centre international d'information sur les sources de l'histoire balkanique et mediterranéenne)
1982-1984: taking part in the project „Das Wiener Registerbuch der Beschwerden“ (Hans-Georg Majer, Munich – Andreas Tietze, Vienna)
1984: lecturer at the Institute of Middle Eastern Studies
1985: assistant professor at the Institute of Middle Eastern Studies of the University of Vienna.
1986-1989: teacher of Modern Turkish at the Österreichische Orient-Gesellschaft Hammer-Purgstall, Vienna
1991: guest researcher at the Eötvös Lórand University of Budapest within the framework of the “Aktion Österreich-Ungarn” (Host: Prof. Gyula Káldy-Nagy)
1992: Venia docendi for Turkish and Islamic Studies,
1992 – present: associate professor at the Institute of Middle Eastern Studies of the University of Vienna.

Thesis: Osmanische Festungsbesatzungen in Ungarn zur Zeit Murāds III., dargestellt an Hand von Petitionen zur Stellenvergabe. Schriften der Balkan-Kommission, Philologische Abteilung, Bd. 35, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien 1995.

1992 board member of the Comité international d’études pré-ottomanes et ottomanes (CIÉPO) https://www.univie.ac.at/ciepo/
1999-2011 member of the Balkan-Kommission of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, until its dissolution
· 2000-2003: Project P 13632 SPR of FWF (Austrian Science Fund) „Der Zivilisationswortschatz im südosteuropäischen Raum 1840-1870: Herrschaft und Staat: Osmanisch“
· 2002 – present: CIÉPO General secretary
2002 – present: member of Wiener Archäographisches Forum (WAF) https://waf.cvl.tuwien.ac.at/
2003-2006: Project P 16325-G03 of FWF (Austrian Science Fund) „Standardisierungsprozesse des wirtschafts- und gesellschaftsrelevanten Vokabulars im osmanischen Reich der Tanzimatzeit“

2005 – present: member of the executive committee of the International Association of Ottoman Social and Economic History (IAOSEH, https://iaoseh.wordpress.com/)
2009: guest lecturer an der EPHE (EHESS), Paris
2008 – present: member of the Board of IAOSEH
2009 - present: associate member of the Centre d’études turques, ottomanes, balkaniques et centrasiatiques (CETOBaC, Paris)
2011 guest lecturer (Erasmus) at the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (INALCO, Paris)
2014 Liyakat Nişanı (Order for the Merit), Republic of Turkey.
2015 – present: member of the Advisory Board of the Encyclopedia of Turkic Languages and Linguistics (ed. Lars Johanson)
2015 guest lecturer (Erasmus), University of Zagreb
2017 – present: treasurer of IAOSEH
2017 Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (Christoph Rauch) and Humboldt-Universität Berlin (Ingeborg Baldauf): Workshop der Reihe “Scriptorium”: Workshops on the study of Oriental manuscripts: Turkic Manuscript Studies: An Introduction.
2018 guest lecturer (Erasmus) at the University of Zagreb
2018 guest lecturer (Erasmus) at the University of Szeged
2018-2021 co-lead FWF project P-30511 The Oriental Outpost of the Republic of Letters. Sebastian Tengnagel (d. 1636), the Imperial Library in Vienna, and Knowledge about the Orient (https://geschichtsforschung.univie.ac.at/forschung/laufende-drittmittelprojekte/oorpl/)
2018 – present: member of CIMA (Centre of Image and Material Analysis in Cultural Heritage) https://cima.or.at/
2019 “Recovering Damaged Texts, Analyzing Inks, Seals, and Watermarks – Non-invasive Methods and Databases”. Habsburgs and Ottomans. Intensive summer school of primary sources, INZ, ÖAW, Vienna.
2019 - present: president of Wiener Archäographisches Forum https://waf.cvl.tuwien.ac.at/

Administrative duties

2008 - 2011: head of department (deputy: Gisela Procházka-Eisl)

2011-2014: Vice director of the study programme of SPL 14 (agenda of the Institute of Middle Eastern Studies).

Editorial work

1985-2004, 2010-2012: Editor-in-chief of Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes
2014 – present: Member of Comité de rédaction (editorial board) of Turcica https://poj.peeters-leuven.be/content.php?url=journal.php&journal_code=TURC

Peer review

Regular peer review for DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft), International Congress of Turkish Linguistics (ICTL), Turcica, ICOSEH, CIÉPO.