Anton Pelinka

Anton Pelinka
Anton Pelinka (2006)
Born	(1941-10-14) 14 October 1941 (age 75) Vienna, Austria
Citizenship	Austrian
Fields	political science and nationalism studies
Institutions	Central European University University of Innsbruck Jawaharlal Nehru University University of New Orleans Stanford University University of Michigan Harvard University
Alma mater	University of Vienna

Anton Pelinka (born October 14, 1941) is a professor of political science and nationalism studies at the English-speaking Central European University of Budapest. Prior to this appointment, Pelinka was a professor of political science at the University of Innsbruck, one of Austria's largest universities. During his career he has also served as a dean, with his most recent tenure in this role occurring between the years of 2004 an 2006 when he was dean of the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology at the University of Innsbruck.

Anton Pelinka was born in the Austrian capital city of Vienna.

After completing studies in jurisprudence at the University of Vienna (Ph.D 1964) as well as Political Science at the Institute for Advanced Studies, he worked for the weekly Newspaper "Die Furche". His first scientific job was as an assistant. He returned to the Institute for Advanced Studies, whose principal at the time was the Austrian-American historian Ernst Florian Winter. In 1971, he went to Salzburg where he qualified as a university lecturer a year later. Afterwards he went to Germany to teach in Essen and Berlin for two years. In 1975, he got a permanent professorial chair at the University of Innsbruck. He has been a visiting professor at many universities abroad. In 1977 he was at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New-Delhi. In the United States he went to the University of New Orleans in 1981, to the Stanford University in 1997 and to the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor from 2001 to 2002. During this time he also visited the Université Libre de Bruxelles. He was also at Harvard University (1990 to 1991) and the Collegium Budapest (1994) for the purpose of research.

In October 2004, Anton Pelinka was appointed as a full professor at the University of Innsbruck. On January 1, 2005 he was selected as dean of the new Faculty of Political Science and Sociology. He held this position until his move to the Central European University of Budapest.