Andreas Eckert

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Andreas Eckert (born February 12, 1964 in Bremen ) is a German historian and Africa scientist .

Andreas Eckert passed his Abitur in 1982 and, after doing his community service, studied history, French and journalism at the Universities of Hamburg , Yaoundé (Cameroon) and Aix-en-Provence from 1985 to 1990 . With a thesis on the Duala and the colonial powers, followed in 1990 by the Magister at the University of Hamburg. With Leonhard Harding he received his doctorate in 1995 with the thesis land ownership, land conflicts and colonial change. Douala 1880–1960 in Medieval and Modern History at the Historical Seminar in Hamburg. From 1995 to 1998 he was a research assistant at the Department of African Studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin (HU). Eckert had lectureships at the universities of Hamburg (historical seminar), Bremen (history course) and Leipzig (institute for African studies). From 2000 to 2002 he was a research assistant at the African Studies Seminar at HU Berlin. In 2002 he completed his habilitation at the HU Berlin. From 2002 and 2006 he was Directeur d'Etudes at the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme .

From 2002 to 2007 Eckert taught as a professor of modern history with a focus on African history at the University of Hamburg. From 2004 to 2006 Eckert was Dean of the Department of Philosophy and History at the University of Hamburg. In 2007 he was a visiting professor at Harvard University . Eckert has been a professor of African history at the Humboldt University in Berlin since April 2007 . From 2008 to 2009 he was Managing Director of the Institute for Asian and African Studies. In autumn 2009 Eckert took over the management of the humanities college financed by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research “Work and Generation in a Global Historical Perspective”. Eckert is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society .

His main research interests are the history of Africa in the 19th and 20th centuries, in particular the history of the state, urbanization, resistance, historiography, the history of work, the history of colonialism, the history of globalization and the history of historical studies. He has been a full member of the Academia Europaea since 2012 .

Andreas Eckert writes regularly for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung .

Fonts (selection)

  • Rule and manage. African bureaucrats, state order and politics in Tanzania, 1920–1970 (= studies on international history. Vol. 16). Oldenbourg, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-486-57906-2 (also: Berlin, Humboldt University, habilitation paper, 2002).
  • Colonialism. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 978-3-596-15351-0 .
  • Land ownership, land conflicts and colonial change. Douala 1880 to 1960 (= contributions to colonial and overseas history. Vol. 70). Steiner, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-515-06777-9 (also: Hamburg, University, dissertation, 1995).
  • The Duala and the colonial powers. An investigation into resistance, protest and protonationalism in Cameroon before the Second World War (= Hamburg studies on African history. Vol. 2). Lit-Verlag, Münster 1991, ISBN 3-89473-095-1 (also: Hamburg, University, Master's thesis, 1990).

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Membership page at Academia Europaea
personal data
SURNAME Eckert, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and Africanist
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen