Andrej Studen (1963–7 November 2022) was a Slovenian

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and sociologist of culture who mostly wrote on the everyday,

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alcoholism Alcoholism is the continued drinking of alcohol despite it causing problems. Some definitions require evidence of dependence and withdrawal. Problematic use of alcohol has been mentioned in the earliest historical records. The World He ...

, and

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. He significantly contributed to the understanding of the history of the

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in Slovenia and received a broad public acclaim. He was born in

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and studied

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and

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in the 1980s in

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. In 1992 and 1993, he took post-graduate studies with

Hans Jürgen Teuteberg Hans Jürgen Teuteberg (18 December 1929–14 February 2015) was a German historian, who worked as a professor of social and economic history at the University of Münster from 1974 to 1995. Teuteberg's ''magnum opus'' was his ''History of Industr ...

at the

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. Since 1988, he was employed as a researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History in Ljubljana, and since the 2000s as a lecturer at the

University of Primorska University of Primorska ( Slovenian ''Univerza na Primorskem'', Italian ''Università del Litorale'') is a public university in Slovenia. It is located in Koper, Izola, and Portorož and is named for the Slovenian Littoral region, where it i ...

(Faculty of Humanities) and

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(Faculty of Arts). He earned his Ph.D. in 1996 with a dissertation on the

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culture of Ljubljana in the 19th century. In 2010, Studen was awarded the KLIO award, which is the highest Slovenian award in the field of

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, by the Association of Slovenian Historical Societies for the book ''Pijane zverine. O moralni in patološki zgodovini alkoholizma na Slovenskem v dobi meščanstva'' (''Drunken Beasts. On the Moral and Pathological History of Alcoholism in Slovenia''; 2009) as the best historiographical work in the past year. Another Studen's major work was ''Neprilagojeni in nevarni: podoba in status Ciganov v preteklosti'' (''Unadapted and Dangerous: the Image and Status of Gypsies in the Past''; 2015) on the history of the

. He also wrote a high-school textbook in collaboration with Janez Cvirn and arranged an exhibition of

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at the

Celje Castle Celje Castle (), also known as Celje Upper Castle () or Old Castle (), is a castle ruin in Celje, Slovenia, formerly the seat of the Counts of Celje. It stands on three hills to the southeast of Celje, where the river Savinja meanders into the L ...

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