Achim von Oppen
Achim von Oppen (born June 21, 1953 in Remscheid ) is a German historian with a focus on the social and cultural history of rural and urban regions, religion and history, the construction and transformation of spaces, the history of mobility and transfers, comparison and the history of interdependence; Global history, history of knowledge, historical anthropology and local history.
Life
From 1984 to 1989 he was a research assistant at the Institute for Sociology at the Free University of Berlin . From 1993 to 2000 he was a research assistant at the Center for the Modern Orient . From 2003 to 2004 he taught as visiting professor ( substitute professor) for African history at the Humboldt University in Berlin . From 2004 to 2007 he was a private lecturer in African history and society at the Humboldt University in Berlin . From 2001 to 2007 he was Vice Director of the Center for the Modern Orient in Berlin. From 2007 to 2019 he was Professor of African History at the University of Bayreuth .
Fonts (selection)
- Terms of trade and terms of trust. The history and contexts of pre-colonial market production around the Upper Zambezi and Kasai . Münster 1993, ISBN 3-89473-246-6 .
- as editor with Richard Rottenburg : Organizational change in Africa. Collective practice and cultural appropriation. Proceeds from a symposium in Petzow near Potsdam, February 10-13, 1994 . Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-86093-073-7 .
- as editor with Ute Luig : Appropriation of nature in Africa as a social and symbolic process . Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-86093-093-1 .
- as editor with Beatrix Heintze : Angola on the move. Transport routes, communications and history . Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-87476-553-4 .
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| SURNAME | Oppen, Achim von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 21, 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Remscheid |