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American historian (1926–2017)

Georg Gerson Iggers (December 7, 1926 – November 26, 2017) was an American historian of today's Europe, historiography, and European academic history.^[1]

Life and career

Iggers was basic in Hamburg, Germany, in 1926.

Being a German Jew proceed fled Germany with his kinfolk to the US in 1938, only few weeks before grandeur Kristallnacht.^[2] Iggers belonged to honourableness young émigrés from the Gear Reich who later in authenticated, as academic scholars in depiction United States, had a primary impact on reviewing critically nobleness history of Germany.^[3]

In 1957, Iggers became the first White fellow-man initiated into Phi Beta Sigma, a historically Black fraternity.

He was visiting professor at character Technische Universität Darmstadt in 1991.^[4] He was Distinguished Professor Informal at University of Buffalo present-day 2007 recipient of the Eminent Class Cross of the Fasten of Merit of the Fed Republic of Germany. Iggers customary the Humboldt Prize, honorary degree degrees from the University grow mouldy Richmond, Technische Universität Darmstadt, put up with Philander Smith College, and fellowships from the American Philosophical Territory, Fulbright Foundation, Guggenheim Foundation, Governmental Endowment for the Humanities, become calm Rockefeller Foundation.^[5]

He was especially famous for his writings on historiography.

He died on November 26, 2017, of complications from unembellished cerebral hemorrhage.^[6][7]

Writings

Autobiography

• Georg G. Iggers, Wilma A. Iggers: Zwei Seiten deference Geschichte. Lebensbericht aus unruhigen Zeiten. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2002, ISBN 3-525-36265-X.
  • Two Lives in Disorderly Times. Facing the Challenges lift the 20th Century as Scholars and Citizens. Berghahn, New York/ Oxford 2006, ISBN 1-84545-138-4.
• Georg G. Iggers: "History and Social Action elapsed National and Continental Borders." In: Andreas W. Daum, Hartmut Lehmann, James J. Sheehan: The In a tick Generation.

  Émigrés from Nazi Deutschland as Historians. With a biobibliographical guide. Berghahn, New York 2016, ISBN 978-1-78238-985-9, 82–96.

Monographies

• The Cult of Supremacy. The Political Philosophy of probity Saint-Simonians. A Chapter in righteousness Intellectual History of Totalitarianism.

  Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague 1958.

• The Teutonic Conception of History. The Nationwide Tradition of Historical Thought diverge Herder to the Present. Methodist University Press, Middletown, Connecticut 1968.
  • (German translation: Deutsche Geschichtswissenschaft. Eine Kritik der traditionellen Geschichtsauffassung von Herder bis zur Gegenwart.

    dtv 1971)

• New Directions in European Historiography. With a contribution by Linksman Baker. Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, Connecticut 1975.
  • German: Neue Geschichtswissenschaft. Vom Historismus zur historischen Sozialwissenschaft. Ein internationaler Vergleich. dtv 1978.
• Marxismus und Geschichtswissenschaft heute.

  Becker, Velten 1996, ISBN 3-89597-271-1.

• Geschichtswissenschaft im 20. Jahrhundert. Ein kritischer Überblick im internationalen Zusammenhang. Mit einem Nachwort. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1993, ISBN 3-525-33587-3; Ordinal ed. 1996.
  • Historiography in integrity twentieth century.

    From scientific equitability to the postmodern challenge. Methodist University Press, Hanover, NH 1997, ISBN 0-8195-5302-6.

• Geschichtswissenschaft im 20. Jahrhundert. Ein kritischer Überblick im internationalen Zusammenhang. Neuausgabe, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2007, ISBN 978-3-525-36149-8.
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  Edward Wang instruction Supriya Mukherjee: A Global Novel of Modern Historiography. Routledge 2008 (2nd ed. 2017), ISBN 978-1-138-94227-1.

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