Alan Bullock

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Alan Louis Charles Bullock, Baron Bullock (born December 13, 1914 in Trowbridge , England , † February 2, 2004 in Oxford , Oxfordshire ) was a British historian .

Life

Bullock was in Trowbridge in the county of Wiltshire , England born, his father worked as a gardener and preachers. He studied at Wadham College of Oxford University history and counted Henry Theodore Wade-Gery and Ronald Syme to their teachers. After receiving his doctorate in 1938, he initially worked as a research assistant on Winston Churchill's book History of the English-Speaking Peoples , and during World War II he worked for the BBC 's European Service. After the war he taught at Oxford and founded St. Catherine's College in 1962 . In 1967 he became a member ( fellow ) of the British Academy .

With the book Hitler: A Study in Tyranny , Bullock published the first major biography on Adolf Hitler in 1952 , which for a long time remained the standard work of Hitler research . Bullock later revised his original thesis of Hitler as a purely opportunist power politician. Today, Hitler is considered an ideologue who, despite all tactical maneuvers, consistently pursued the intentions set out in Mein Kampf . In 1991 Bullock presented the double biography Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives .

Bullock was a Labor Party supporter all his life . His moderate socialist views influenced his historical work, including a three-volume biography of the trade unionist and Labor Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin . In the 1970s he was a member of a Labor Government commission on workers' participation. In 1972 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . Because of his merits Bullock was beaten Knight Bachelor in 1972 and in 1976 as Baron Bullock , of Leafield in the County of Oxfordshire , promoted to Life Peer . In the same year he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Open University . In 2004 he died in an Oxfordshire nursing home .

Works

  • Hitler: A Study in Tyranny . London 1952 (German Hitler. A study on tyranny . Droste, Düsseldorf 1953).
  • History, Civilization from its Beginnings . London 1962.
  • Mother Russia (German Russia, yesterday and today . Humboldt, Munich 1971).
  • Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives . 1991 (German Hitler and Stalin. Parallel life . Siedler, Berlin 1991).

literature

  • Peter Dickson, José Harris: Alan Louis Charles Bullock, 1914-2004 . In: Proceedings of the British Academy . tape 153 , 2008, p. 125-146 ( thebritishacademy.ac.uk [PDF]).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed May 11, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Bullock, Alan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bullock, Alan Louis Charles Bullock Baron
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Trowbridge , England
DATE OF DEATH February 2, 2004
Place of death Oxford