Richard J. Evans

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Richard J. Evans (2016)

Sir Richard John Evans (born September 29, 1947 in Woodford Green , Essex , now London ) is a British historian who has published numerous works on German history in the 19th and 20th centuries .

Life

After studying History Richard J. Evans was in 1972 at St Antony's College of Oxford University doctorate . Afterwards he was a lecturer at the University of Stirling in Scotland from 1972 to 1976 . From 1976 to 1989 he taught European history at the University of East Anglia , first as a lecturer and since 1983 as a professor . In 1989 Richard Evans moved to the University of London , where he taught history at Birkbeck College until 1998 . Since 1998 he has been Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University .

In 2008 Evans was appointed Regius Professor of Modern History (from 2010 Regius Professor of History) at Cambridge University. The post is conferred by the Prime Minister on behalf of the British monarch and dates back to 1724. His successor as Regius Professor was Christopher Clark in 2014 . Evans has been President of Wolfson College (Cambridge) since October 2010 .

In 2000 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature . In 2012 Evans was named a Knight Bachelor by Queen Elizabeth II . In 2015 he was elected as a full member of the Academia Europaea . In the same year he received the Leverhulme Medal from the British Academy .

His works on German history in the 19th and 20th centuries have been awarded the “Wolfson Literary Award for History” and the medal for art and science from the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg . With death in Hamburg ( Death in Hamburg , 1987; German 1990), he wrote a detailed analysis of Hamburger cholera epidemic 1892 . His Rituals of Retribution ( Rituals of Retribution , 1996; German 2001) is a monumental monograph on the development of the death penalty in Germany since the Carolina in 1532 under legal, cultural, historical and sociological aspects. It is regarded as the standard work on the subject. Evans gained greater prominence and media presence in the trial of David Irving (2000), in which he appeared as an expert reviewer and proved that Irving was knowingly making false claims about historical facts such as the number of victims in the bombing of Dresden or the Holocaust. He published his reflections on the issue in the book Telling Lies about Hitler (German Der Geschistorfälscher , 2001).

Between 2003 and 2008 Evans published a three-volume history of the Third Reich that was translated into numerous languages.

Fonts (selection)

As an author

  • The Feminist Movement In Germany, 1894-1933 (Sage studies in 20th century history; Vol. 6). 2nd edition Sage Publ., London 1978 ISBN 0-8039-9951-8 .
  • The Feminists. Women's Emancipation Movements in Europe, America and Australasia, 1840-1920 . Croom Helm, London 1977 ISBN 0-06-492044-5 ; again Routledge, Chapman & Hall, Milton Park 2013.
  • Rethinking German History. Nineteenth-Century Germany And The Origins Of The Third Reich . Harper Collins Academic, London 1991, ISBN 0-04-943051-3 (reprint of the London 1987 edition).
  • Comrades and Sisters. Feminism , Socialism , And Pacifism In Europe, 1870-1945 . Wheatsheaf Books, Brighton, Sussex 1987, ISBN 0-7450-0271-4 .
  • Death in Hamburg. Society And Politics In The Cholera Years, 1830-1910 . Clarendon Press, Oxford 1987, ISBN 0-19-822864-3 . Penguin Books Paperback 2005, ISBN 0-14-303636-X . In German as:
    • Death in Hamburg. City, Society and Politics in the Cholera Years 1830–1910 . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1990 ISBN 3-498-01648-2 .
  • In Hitler's Shadow. West German Historians And The Attempt To Escape From The Nazi Past . IB Tauris, London 1989, ISBN 1-85043-146-9 . In German as:
    • In the shadow of Hitler? Historians' dispute and coming to terms with the past in the Federal Republic . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt / M. 1991 ISBN 3-518-11637-1 .
  • Proletarians And Politics. Socialism, Protest, And The Working Class In Germany Before The First World War . St. Martin's Press, New York 1990, ISBN 0-312-05652-4 .
  • Rituals Of Retribution. Capital Punishment In Germany 1600–1987 . Oxford University Press, New York 1996, ISBN 0-19-821968-7 . In German as:
    • Rituals of retribution. The death penalty in German history 1532–1987 . Kindler, Berlin 2001 ISBN 3-463-40400-1 .
  • Rereading German History. From Unification To Reunification, 1800-1996 . Routledge, London 1997 ISBN 0-415-15900-8 .
  • Tales From The German Underworld. Crime And Punishment In The Nineteenth Century . Yale University Press New Haven, Conn. 1998, ISBN 0-300-07224-4 . In German as:
    • Scenes from the German underworld. Crime and Punishment 1800–1914 . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1996 ISBN 3-499-60522-8 .
  • In Defense of History . WW Norton, New York 1999, ISBN 0-393-04687-7 .
    • Facts and fictions. About the basics of historical knowledge . Campus, Frankfurt 1998, ISBN 3-593-36058-6 .
  • Telling Lies About Hitler. The Holocaust, History and the David Irving Trial . Verso Books, London 2002, ISBN 1-85984-417-0 .
    • The history faker. Holocaust and Historical Truth in the David Irving Trial . Campus, Frankfurt 2001 ISBN 3-593-36770-X .
  • The Third Reich Trilogy . Allen Lane, London.
  1. The Coming Of The Third Reich . 2003 ISBN 0-7139-9648-X .
  2. The Third Reich In Power. 1933-1939 . 2005 ISBN 1-59420-074-2 .
  3. The Third Reich at War. How the Nazis Led Germany from Conquest to Disaster . 2008 ISBN 978-0-7139-9742-2 .
    • The Third Reich . DVA, Munich
  1. Ascent . 2004, ISBN 3-421-05652-8 .
  2. Dictatorship . 2007, ISBN 978-3-421-05653-5 .
  3. War . 2009, ISBN 978-3-421-05800-3 .
  • Cosmopolitan Islanders. British Historians and The European Continent . CUP, Cambridge 2009, ISBN 978-0-521-19998-8 .
  • Women and social democracy in imperial Germany . London 1978.
    • Social democracy and women's emancipation in the German Empire. (International Library, 119) Dietz, Berlin 1979, ISBN 3-8012-1119-3 .
  • Working class and national community. On the discussion of adaptation and resistance in the German workforce 1933–1945. (History Discussion Group, 84) Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung , Bonn 2010 ISBN 978-3-86872-348-9 .
  • Altered pasts. Counterfactuals in history. Brandeis University Press, Waltham (Mass.) 2013, ISBN 978-1-61168-537-4 .
  • The Third Reich in History and Memory . Little Brown 2015.
    • Übers. Thomas Bertram: The Third Reich. History and memory in the 21st century . Philipp von Zabern, Darmstadt 2016 ISBN 978-3-8053-5035-8 .
  • The pursuit of power. Europe, 1815-1914 . Toronto: Allen Lane, 2016.

Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in History . London 2019 ISBN 978-1-4087-0742-5 .

As editor

  • Society And Politics In Wilhelmine Germany . Croom Helm, London 1980, ISBN 0-85664-347-5 (reprint of the London 1978 edition).
  • The German Family. Essays on the Social History of The Family in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Germany . Croom Helm, London 1981, ISBN 0-7099-0067-8 (with William R. Lee).
  • The German Working Class , 1888-1933. The Politics Of Everyday Life . Croom Helm, London 1982, ISBN 0-7099-0431-2 .
  • The German Peasantry . Conflict And Community in Rural Society from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Centuries . Croom Helm, London 1986, ISBN 0-7099-0932-2 (with William R. Lee).
  • The German Unemployed. Experiences And Consequences Of Mass Unemployment From The Weimar Republic To The Third Reich . Croom Helm, London 1987, ISBN 0-7099-0941-1 (with Dick Geary).
  • The German Underworld. Deviants And Outcasts In German history . Routledge, London 1988, ISBN 0-415-00367-9 .
  • The German bourgeoisie. Essays On The Social History Of The German Middle Class From The Late Eighteenth To The Early Twentieth Century . Routledge, London 1991, ISBN 0-415-09358-9 (with David Blackbourn).
  • Bar talks in the German Empire. Sentiment reports from the Hamburg Political Police 1892–1914 . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1989, ISBN 3-499-18529-6 .

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prime Minister's Office press release, 10 Downing Street: Regius Professor of History, Cambridge University: Christopher Clark, July 17, 2014.
  2. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 60173, HMSO, London, June 16, 2012, p. 1 ( PDF , accessed June 18, 2012, English).
  3. ↑ Queen's birthday Honors list in full . In: The Telegraph . June 16, 2012. Retrieved June 16, 2012.
  4. ^ Membership directory: Richard Evans. Academia Europaea, accessed November 5, 2017 .
  5. ↑ See reviews at Perlentaucher.de
  6. ↑ another edition rororo 1996. See also: Cholera epidemic of 1892
  7. ↑ For the US domestic market under the title Lying About Hitler. History, Holocaust, And The David Irving Trial . Basic Books, New York 2001.
personal data
SURNAME Evans, Richard J.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Evans, Richard John (maiden name); Evans, Sir Richard John (full name); Evans, Sir Richard J .; Evans, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Woodford Green , Essex , today in London