Maximilian Peyfuss

On January 1, 2000, the University of Vienna appointed Peyfuss as a university professor. The West University of Timișoara bestowed Peyfuss with an honorary doctorate in 2005.

After being appointed associate professor for Southeast European History at the University of Vienna in 1992- Peyfuss began a two-semester lecture on Balkan Studies., He also worked on the relocation of the institute to its new campus in the IX. District.

In 1979 Peyfuss became a university assistant at the Institute for Eastern European History at the University of Vienna and was primarily an employee of Walter Leitsch. In addition to his work in teaching, Peyfuss became editor of the Studia Austro-Polonica series published in Krakow. He completed his habilitation in 1989 with a book on the impact of the Moschopolis printing company on Southeastern European history. This publication on book printing and veneration of saints in the Archdiocese of Achrida / Ohrid was also translated into Albanian in 2003.

Soon after receiving his doctorate in 1971, Peyfuss became a member of the editorial team at Österreichische Osthefte, an Austrian journal on Eastern Europe.

Peyfuss was an activist of the "Austrian-Albanian Association". He joined the association in the 1970s as a student of Karl Treimer and held the post of treasurer. His cultural activity in the association begins with his participation in the commemoration in Kosovo, of the 500th anniversary of the death of Gjergj Kastriot - Skanderbeg.

In 1970, Peyfuss received an invitation from Albania, to which he responded in gratitude by publishing several articles in newspapers. After the publication of these articles, his relations with the communist government of Albania deteriorated. Peyfuss was banned from Albania until the 1980s, when, with the mediation of the academy's president, Aleks Buda, he was allowed to enter Albania.

Maximilian Peyfuss, also Max Demeter Peyfuss (2 August 1944 Vienna - 13 April 2019 Baden) was an Austrian historian, translator and writer.

After his marriage to Theodora Tirka (1863–1920) from Enzersdorf in 1891, Maximilian Peyfuss’ grandfather, the academic painter Carl Johann Peyfuss, brother of Marietta Peyfuss, settled in Maria Enzersdorf. Theodora Tirka was a daughter from the last marriage of the princely Serbian government banker Demeter Theodor Tirka (1802–1874) with the Upper Austrian Theresia Sulzer (1837–1922). Demeter Th. Tirka, who has had a wealth in Maria Enzersdorf since 1840, came from an Arumunian family from what is now Albania, a member of a small people scattered across the Balkans who find their identity in a Romance language related to Romanian.