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Quasitilted algebras have been introduced by \textit{D. Happel}, \textit{I. Reiten} and \textit{S. O. Smalø} [Tilting in Abelian categories and quasitilted algebras, Mem. Am. Math. Soc. 575 (1996; Zbl 0849.16011)] to provide a common framework for tilted algebras on the one hand and for example canonical algebras, on the other hand. They are defined as the endomorphism ring of a tilting object in a hereditary category and they can be characterized homologically as those algebras with global dimension at most two where each indecomposable module has injective dimension or projective dimension at most one. In this very well written paper, the author gives a survey on the general theory of quasitilted algebras as well as on the recent contributions. It should be mentioned finally, that the author recently could determine the hereditary categories which admit a tilting object [\textit{D. Happel}, A characterization of hereditary categories with tilting object, preprint (2000)]. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0897.00024].