Alex Danchev

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Alexander "Alex" Danchev (born August 26, 1955 in Bolton , Lancashire , † August 7, 2016 ) was a British historian and biographer .

Life

Alex Danchev was born in 1955 in Bolton, Lancashire, the son of Alfons Danchev, a Belgian-Bulgarian mining engineer, and his wife Anne (née Gilman). He studied history and economics at the University College of the University of Oxford , where he made 1977 its conclusion. He then attended Trinity Hall at the University of Cambridge , where he received a Postgraduate Certificate in Education . In 1978 he began teaching at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst . In this role, he served as an officer in the Royal Army Education Corps for the next ten years .

In addition to his teaching activities, he studied war sociology at King's College London , where he received his doctorate in 1984. In 1988 he left the British Army and was a Research Fellow at King's College London from 1988 to 1989 . He then became a lecturer in international relations at Keele University . In the course of his further academic career there, he became a professor and acted as head of the Department of International Relations , and from 2002 to 2004 as head of the School of Politics, International Relations and the Environment (SPIRE). From 2004 to 2014 he taught at the School of Politics and International Relations at Nottingham University . In 2014 he moved to the University of St Andrews , where he taught until his death.

Danchev has been a visiting fellow at Queen Mary, University of London and St Antony's College, University of Oxford.

Danchev was married since 1998. His wife brought two daughters into the marriage. He died of a myocardial infarction in August 2016 at the age of 60 .

Publications (selection)

  • Oliver Franks: Founding Father , (1993, Oxford University Press, Oxford)
  • Alchemist of War: The Life of Basil Liddell Hart (1998)
  • with Daniel Todman (Ed.): War Diaries: Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke (2001)
  • Georges Braque: A Life (2005)
  • On Art and War and Terror (2009)
  • (Ed.): 100 Artists' Manifestos (2011)
  • Cézanne: A life (2012)
  • On Good and Evil and the Gray Zone (2015)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andrew Linklater: Transformation of Political Community: Ethical Foundations of the Post-Westphalian Era (2013)
  2. ^ History of Politics at Keele ( Memento of November 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), Keele University website
personal data
SURNAME Danchev, Alex
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Danchev, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British historian and biographer
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Bolton , Lancashire
DATE OF DEATH 7th August 2016