Bernd Jürgen Fischer (born 27 January 1952) is

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and professor of

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Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne Indiana () is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States. It is the 38th-largest by area and the 17th-most populous of the 50 States. Its capital and largest city is Indianapolis. Indiana was admitted to the United States as the 19th st ...

. He received his Ph.D. in 1982 from the

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. He was elected to the Albanian Academy of Science in 2006 and in 2007, he was appointed to position of special advisor to the Albanian Royal Court.

Selected works

King Zog and the struggle for stability in Albania. 1984 by East European Monographs
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"Kollaborationsregime in Albanien, 1939-1944" in Europe unterm Hakenkreuz- Okkupation und Kollaboration, 1938-1945.

Balkan Strongmen: Dictators and Authoritarian Rulers of Southeast Europe, Published November 2006 by C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd

Albanian Identities: Myth and History
coauthor with Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers, Published September 30, 2002 by Indiana University Press
A Concise History of Albania
coauthor with Oliver Jens Schmitt, Published 2022 by Cambridge University Press

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Very short bio on Goodreads web site

21st-century American historians American male non-fiction writers Indiana University – Purdue University Fort Wayne faculty Living people Members of the Academy of Sciences of Albania University of California, Santa Barbara alumni 1952 births Purdue University Fort Wayne faculty 21st-century American male writers {{US-historian-stub