Konstantinos Raptis

Konstantinos Raptis is a Professor of Modern European History (1789–1939) at the Department of History and Archaeology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, under the School of Philosophy. He holds a PhD from the University of Vienna, awarded with distinction for his work on 19th-century Habsburg merchants. His research focuses on middle classes, nobility, gender history, historiography, nationalism, and WWI impacts in Central Europe.

Education: BA from NKUA’s History & Archaeology; PhD (Dr. Phil.) from University of Vienna’s Institute for Economic and Social History. He has taught at Universities of Vienna, Salzburg, Chemnitz, Koper, and Minnesota. He supervised 7 doctoral and 38 postgraduate theses.

Research interests include transnational elite adaptation, gender roles in modern Europe, and historiographical debates. His publications analyze Habsburg-era merchants, aristocratic families like the Harrach, and post-WWI social discourse. Recent work explores communist-era nobility and Cold War dynamics.

Teaching engagements span multiple countries, emphasizing comparative European history and historiography. Active in international conferences as speaker/moderator, his work appears in German, English, and Greek academic journals. Key contributions include monographs on Austrian merchants and the Harrach family’s socio-political role.