Claudia Römer

• 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

• 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/

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).

• 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