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

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

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

Winter term 2023

141003 UE Archives, Ottoman Sources, and Media (reading texts included)

141160 VU M1 - VU Contemporary Research and Methods in Ottoman Studies

Römer, C., & Vatin, N. (2016). Faux, usage de faux, faux témoignage, accusation mensongère et usurpation d’identité à la fin du règne de Soliman le Magnifique, Johannes Zimmermann, Christoph Herzog, Raoul Motika (eds.) : In J. Zimmermann, C. Herzog, & R. Motika (Eds.), Osmanische Welten : Quellen und Fallstudien. Festschrift für Michael Ursinus. Bamberger Orientstudien 8 (pp. 509-561). University of Bamberg Press.

Römer, C. (2016). Foreword. In R. Stiegner (Ed.), 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. (Vol. 10/1, pp. XXV-XXVII). Ugarit-Verlag. Wiener Offene Orientalistik

Römer, C. (2016). La fonction des couleurs dans les textes historiques ottomans du 16e siècle Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Paris 2015 (2016), 39-51. In P-S. Filliozat, & M. Zink (Eds.), Voir et concevoir la couleur en Asie, Actes du colloque international organisé par l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, la Société asiatique et l’Inalco à l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (Palais de l’Institut) et à l’Inalco les 11 et 12 janvier 2013. (pp. 39-51). Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.

Römer, C. (2016). Tallissiman and He vel aqueur – Charles Tessier’s (ca. 1550 – after 1604) Chansons turquesques decoded? Journal of Turkish Studies – Türklük Bilgisi Araştırmaları , 44; Çekirge Budu. A Festschrift in Honor of Robert Dankoff, 363-372.

Römer, C., Csató, É. Á., Brendemoen, B., Johanson, L., & Stein, H. (2016). The Linguistic Landscape of Istanbul in the Seventeenth Century. In É. Á. Csató, A. Menz, & F. Turan (Eds.), Spoken Ottoman in Mediator Texts (Vol. 106, pp. 1-33). Harrassowitz. Turcologica Vol. 106

Römer, C., & Vatin, N. (2015). Aceh et la Porte dans les années 1560. Turcica, 46, 63-111. https://doi.org/DOI: 10.2143/TURC.46.0.3087631

Römer, C. (2015). Baldırzāde Meḥmed Efendi. In Encyclopaedia of Islam (Vol. 2015/1, pp. 57-58). Brill.

Römer, C. (2015). Hammer Joseph. In F. Georgeon, N. Vatin, & G. Veinstein (Eds.), Dictionnaire de l’Empire Ottoman Editions Fayard.

Römer, C. (2015). Hammer Joseph. In F. Georgeon, N. Vatin, G. Veinstein, & E. Borromeo (Eds.), Dictionnaire de l’Empire Ottoman Editions Fayard.

Römer, C. (2014). A Late 16th-Century Persian-Turkish Phrase Book. In H. Stein (Ed.), Türkische Sprache im iranischen Umfeld, Mainz, 6.-7.9.2008. Turkic Language in Iran, Past and Present , Turcologica 100, (pp. 183-201). Harrassowitz. Turcologica Vol. 100

Römer, C. (2014). Cultural Assimilation of a 16th-Century New Muslim - the mecmua ÖNB A.F. 437. In İ. Şahin (Ed.), CIÉPO 19, Osmanlı Öncesi ve Dönemi Tarihi Araştırmalar (Vol. 2, pp. 607-620). İstanbul Esnaf ve Sanatkarlar Odaları Birliği.

Römer, C. (2014). Die Korrespondenz osmanischer Beamter mit der Habsburgermonarchie. Paper presented at Auf dem Weg zu einer gemeinsamen Identität: Quellen zur Geschichte Mitteleuropas im digitalen Zeitalter. , Wien, Austria.

Römer, C. (2014). Le manuscrit ÖNB Mxt. 270. Paper presented at 21st CIÉPO Symposium, Budapest, Hungary.

Römer, C. (2014). „16ncı yüzyıl Osmanlı vesikalarının bazısına nesir şaheseri denilebilir mi?”. Unpublished. In I. Aksoyak (Ed.), Divan Nesri Sempozyumu, Ankara, 21.-23.5.2013.

Römer, C. (2013). The Turkish gerund diye as an attribute. Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 66(3), 289-296. https://doi.org/10.1556/AOrient.66.2013.3.3

Römer, C. (2013). Bāqī nedėmek lāzımdur – zur alttürkischen/tocharischen Wurzel einer osmanischen Briefabschlußformel. In H. Reindl-Kiel (Ed.), Deutsch-türkische Begegnungen : Festschrift Kemal Beydilli (1 ed., pp. 358-365). EB-Verlag. Bonner Islamstudien No. 30

Römer, C. (2013). „Legends about Vienna in the Seyahatnâme and their Austrian Counterpart”, Evliyâ Çelebi. Studies and Essays Commemorating the 400th Anniversary of his Birth, Republic of Turkey Ministry of Culture and Tourism Publications; 290-295 (englische Übersetzung von Nr. 72). In N. Tezcan, S. Tezcan, & R. Dankoff (Eds.), Evliyâ Çelebi. Studies and Essays Commemorating the 400th Anniversary of his Birth (pp. 290-295). Republic of Turkey Ministry of Culture and Tourism Publications.

Römer, C. (2013). Mustafa Ali'nin eserlerinde Aliterasyon. In İ. H. Aksoyak (Ed.), Gelibolulu Mustafa Âlî Çalıştayı Bildirileri (pp. 53-65). Türk Dil Kurumu.

Römer, C. (2012). « La langue européenne nommée Tâlyân chez Evliyâ Çelebi et ailleurs ». In F. Bilici (Ed.), Cahiers balkaniques (Vol. 41, pp. 117-128) https://doi.org/10.4000/ceb.3977.

Römer, C. (2012). On some peculiar datives in colloquial Middle Ottoman texts. In T. Kahl, M. Metzeltin, & H. Schaller (Eds.), Balkanismen heute: Balkanologie Beiträge zur Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft (Vol. Bd. 3, pp. 185-194). LIT Verlag.

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.