User:Dr. Rudolph Meindl/Zoltan Sabov

6. Juli 2023

Zoltan Sabov (also known as Szabó Zoltán, Szabov Zoltán Árpádovich, Золтан Арпадович Сабов, Цольтан Забов; 28. August 1951 in Botragy, Sowjetunion) is a German-Hungarian professor of economic policy and innovation management, habilitated at the Free University of Berlin. He taught at the prestigious St. Petersburg State University in the Russian Federation and retired in 2016.

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Sabov finished 8 classes of the Hungarian elementary school in 1966 in Uschhorod, the westernmost city of the  Ukrainischen Sozialistischen Sowjetrepublik. After his family resettled to Ungarn, he completed a four-year vocational training at the  Volkswirtschaftlichen Technikum (Fachoberschule) in Miskolc. At the age of 18, he went to Nürnberg and was recognized as a political refugee. After passing the Examination to determine the university entrance qualification at the Studienkolleg bei den Wissenschaftlichen Hochschulen Münchens in 1972, he began his studies in business administration at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and switched in the year of 1973 to the Freie Universität Berlin. At the Faculty of Economic Science of the Free University of Berlin, Sabov obtained diplomas in Business administration (1976) and National economics (1984). In 1984 Sabov earned his doctorate (Dr. rer. pol.) from the Free University of Berlin with a dissertation titled "Cyclical Fluctuations of Economic Activity in Socialist Planned Economies - A Systematization of their Causes based on Existing Explanatory Attempts" ). In 2000, he completed his habilitation at the Free University of Berlin, specializing in economic policy with the venia legendi on Eastern European economies. The topic of his habilitation thesis was "Currency Convertibility as a Prerequisite and Result of the Transformation of Socialist Planned Economies into Market Economies." The habilitation thesis was published in Russian in St. Petersburg).

From 1977 to 1978, Sabov worked as a research assistant at the Institute of Cooperative Studies, Department of Eastern Europe, at the Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Genossenschaftswesen, From 1978 to 1993, he served as an Assistant Professor and Scientific Employee at the Osteuropa-Institut der Freien Universität Berlin, in the Department of Economics. In 1993, Sabov was sent to the Faculty of Economics of St. Petersburg State University, Russia, as an Integrated Expert by GIZ/CIM ((then GTZ: German society for technical cooperation), as integrated expert at the Wirtschaftsfakultät of the Staatsuniversität Sankt Petersburg/Russland where he taught until 2016 Lehrstuhl für Innovationsmanagementas a professor of economics.  As part of this project, he also briefly taught at the Staatlichen Universität Jaroslaw-der Weise Nowgorod. He declined an offer to join the Staatliche Technische Universität des Fernen Ostens at Wladiwostok/Russland

Parallel to his professorship in St. Petersburg, Sabov had the following activities:


 * From 2001 to 2005, he served as the Director of the Institute for German Studies at the Europäischen Humanistischen Universität Minsk, Belarus (DAAD-long-term lecturer)
 * From 2005 to 2007, he worked at the Industrie- und Handelskammer Sankt Petersburg/Russland (Integrated Expert GIZ/CIM)
 * From 2010 to 2012, he worked as a project leader at the Georgi-Eliava-Institut für Bakteriophagen, Mikrobiologie und Virologie, Ilia State University, Tiflis Georgien (Integrated Expert GIZ/CIM)

Sabov has 96 publications to his name, including textbooks, monographs, and articles in German, Russian, English, and American academic journals. He has also translated textbooks from German to Russian. His final lecture at St. Petersburg State University in 2016 is available in four languages spoken by him (German, Hungarian, Russian, English).

Sabov is married and has three children. He is not a member of any political party but has been advocating for Russia's integration into Europe since 2016.

Weblinks
Beruflicher Werdegang:

Die Wirtschaft Russland und Europa:

Der Reziprokstaat Deutschland-Russland

Publications:

Zoltan Sabov in the catalog of ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics (ZBW)

Literature by and about Zoltan Sabov in the catalog of the German National Library