Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann

Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann (born March 22, 1967 in Berlin ) is a German historian .

Live and act

Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann acquired in 1993 at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore the Master of Arts . In 1999 he was with the work The Politics of Sociability. Masonic lodges in German civil society 1840-1918 at Bielefeld University for Dr. phil. PhD . In 2003, the dissertation was awarded the Hedwig Hintze Prize of the Association of Historians of Germany .

From 1999 to 2000 Hoffmann was a research assistant at the Center for Comparative History of Europe at the Free University of Berlin and from 2000 to 2008 research assistant at the Ruhr University in Bochum . During this time he worked in 2002 on a scholarship at the German Historical Institute in London , in 2002/2003 with the Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the University of California, Berkeley and at Stanford University, and in 2005/2006 with a grant the Fritz Thyssen Foundation at the Social Science Research Center in Berlin and with a grant from the German Historical Institute in Washington .

In 2008 Hoffmann became head of the Department of Political Change in the 20th Century at the Leibniz Center for Contemporary Research in Potsdam . In 2010 he was a visiting professor at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg . In 2012 he became Associate Professor for “Late Modern Europe” in the History Department of the University of California, Berkeley. In 2017 he received a Guggenheim scholarship .

His research interests include the history of Europe from the 18th to 20th centuries, the history of human rights and the history of concepts .

Fonts

author

• The politics of conviviality. Masonic lodges in German civil society 1840–1918. Dissertation. Bielefeld University 1999, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2000, ISBN 978-3-525-35911-2 (= critical studies on historical science . Volume 141).
  English: The politics of sociability. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, Mich. 2007, ISBN 978-0-472-11573-0 .
• Conviviality and democracy. Clubs and civil society in a transnational comparison 1750–1914 (= Jürgen Kocka , Arnd Bauerkämper (Ed.): Syntheses. Volume 1). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 978-3-525-36800-8 .
• Civil society and democracy in nineteenth century Europe. Entanglements, variations, conflicts. Science Center Berlin for Social Research, Berlin 2005, DNB 978513142 .

editor

• with Manfred Hettling : The bourgeois sky of values. Interior views of the 19th century. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2000, ISBN 978-3-525-01385-4 .
• Moral policy. History of human rights in the 20th century. Wallstein, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8353-0639-4 .
• with Daniel Fulda, Dagmar Herzog , Till van Rahden : Democracy in the shadow of violence. Stories of the Private in the German Post War. Wallstein, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8353-0250-1 .
• Human rights in the twentieth century. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2011, ISBN 978-0-521-19426-6 .
• New human rights history (= history and society . Volume 38, Issue 4). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2012, DNB 1029671532 .
• with Olivier Wieviorka , Sandrine Kott, Peter Romijn: Seeking Peace in the Wake of War. Europe, 1943-1947. Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam 2015, ISBN 978-90-485-1525-7 .
• with Jennifer Evans, Paul Betts: The Ethics of Seeing. Photography and Twentieth-Century German History. Berghahn Press, New York 2018, ISBN 978-1-78533-728-4 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann on the University of California, Berkeley website
• Short biography and reviews of works by Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann at perlentaucher.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ZZF researcher Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann appointed to the University of California, Berkeley (USA) on the website of the Center for Contemporary History, November 9, 2011
2. ^ Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann on the website of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation