Margit Szöllösi-Janze

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Margit Szöllösi-Janze (born February 22, 1957 in Munich ) is a German-Hungarian historian . Szöllösi-Janze has held the Chair for Modern History and Contemporary History at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich since 2010 . It emerged primarily with monographs on the history of the working group of large research institutions 1958–1980, the Hungarian Arrow Cross Movement and with the first scientific biography on Fritz Haber .

Live and act

Margit Szöllösi-Janze passed her first state examination for teaching at grammar schools for the subjects of German, history and social studies in 1981 and 1982. She was awarded a doctorate in 1985 with summa cum laude. phil. with a thesis on the Arrow Cross movement in Hungary, supervised by Gerhard A. Ritter . From 1986 to 1992 she was a research assistant on various third-party funded projects and research assistant at the Institute for Modern History at LMU Munich. From 1993 to 1996 Szöllösi-Janze received a habilitation grant from the DFG . In 1996/97 she completed her habilitation at the LMU Munich with an extensive biography of the chemist and Nobel Prize winner Fritz Haber under Gerhard Ritter for modern and contemporary history and then received a Heisenberg grant from 1997 to 2000 .

After a visiting professorship at St Antony's College at the University of Oxford in 1998/99, Szöllösi-Janze was Professor of Contemporary History at the Institute for History at the University of Salzburg from 2000 to 2001 , and until 2010 Professor of Modern History at the Department of History at the University of Cologne . Since the spring of 2010 she has been Professor of Modern History and Contemporary History at the History Department at LMU Munich.

Szöllösi-Janze was awarded numerous academic honors and memberships for her research. In 1987 she was awarded the Prize of the Southeast European Society and in 1998 the advancement award of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. In 1998 she was awarded the prize by the Association of Historians of Germany for outstanding achievements by young academics . She was a visiting professor at Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft at St Antony's College, University of Oxford (1998–1999). From 2004 to 2015 Szöllösi-Janze was a full member of the Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . From 2009 to 2016 she was part of the extended group of editors for the quarterly journal for contemporary history . She has been a member of the editorial board of this journal since April 2016.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • The Arrow Cross Movement in Hungary. Historical context, development and rule (= studies on contemporary history. Vol. 35). Oldenbourg, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-486-54711-9 (also: Munich, University, dissertation, 1985/86).
  • Fritz Haber. 1868-1934. A biography. Beck, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-406-43548-3 .
  • History of the Working Group of Large Research Institutions, 1958–1980 (= studies on the history of German large research institutions. Vol. 2). Campus, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1990, ISBN 3-593-34377-0 .

Editorships

  • since 2018 co-editor of the scientific book series Wissenschaftskulturen at Franz Steiner Verlag
  • Science in the Third Reich (= German historical perspectives series. Vol. 12). Berg, Oxford et al. 2001, ISBN 1-85973-421-9 .

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ Jürgen Zarusky: Personnel changes in the quarterly issues for contemporary history. In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte 64 (2016), pp. 551–552.
personal data
SURNAME Szöllösi-Janze, Margit
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Hungarian historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich