Jože Pirjevec

Jože Pirjevec (born 1 June 1940), registered at birth Giuseppe Pierazzi because of the Italianization policy under the Fascist regime, is a Slovene–Italian historian and a prominent diplomatic historian of the west Balkans region, as well as a member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

He was born in a Slovene-speaking family in Sežana, Slovenia, then part of the fascist Kingdom of Italy.

After World War II, the family moved from Yugoslavia to the Free Territory of Trieste.

[1] He initially researched the relations between Italy and the South Slavic peoples during the Risorgimento in the mid-19th century.

Besides Slovene and Italian, he is fluent in German, English, Serbo-Croatian, Russian and French languages.