Andreas W. Daum

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Andreas W. Daum is a German-American historian .

Andreas Daum studied history, political science and art history in Cologne , Munich and the USA. During his studies he received a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation . In 1990 he graduated from the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. His academic teacher was Thomas Nipperdey . In Munich he received his doctorate in 1995 with a study on the popularization of the natural sciences in Germany between 1848 and 1914. The work was initially supervised by Nipperdey, after his death by Laetitia Boehm , Wolfgang Hardtwig and Gerhard A. Ritter . Daum was a research fellow at the German Historical Institute in Washington and a John F. Kennedy Fellow at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University . Since 2003, Daum has been a professor of history at the State University of New York at Buffalo . In 2012, he turned down an offer to the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich for a W3 professorship for Modern History and Contemporary History.

Daum's main research areas are German, European and transatlantic history from the 18th to the 20th century. He published numerous studies on the history of science popularization , the German bourgeoisie and German-American relations. He was the first to clarify the origins of the legendary sentence “ I am a Berliner ”, which John F. Kennedy uttered as American President on June 26, 1963 during his visit to West Berlin. He interprets this visit as the climax of a story of emotions from the Cold War and the “transnational communalization” of West Germans with the West. He has published extensively on Alexander von Humboldt . In 2019 he published a brief biography on Humboldt. Daum interprets this as a historical "epochal figure".

Daum was one of the editors of the German Studies Review and Reports on the History of Science . He was a Mellon Resident Fellow of the American Philosophical Society , Research Fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities, and Baird Resident Scholar at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. In 2019 he was awarded the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Research Prize by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation .

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Monographs

  • Science popularization in the 19th century. Civil culture, scientific education and the German public, 1848–1914. 2nd supplemented edition. Oldenbourg, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-486-56551-6 (also Munich, University, dissertation, 1995) ( review ).
  • Kennedy in Berlin. Politics, culture and emotions in the Cold War. Schöningh, Paderborn 2003, ISBN 3-506-71991-2 ( review ) (English translation: Kennedy in Berlin. Translated by Dona Geyer. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2007, ISBN 978-0-521-85824-3 ).
  • Alexander von Humboldt. Beck, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-406-73435-9 .

Editorships

  • with Lloyd C. Gardner, Wilfried Mausbach: America, the Vietnam War and the World. Comparative and International Perspectives. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2003, ISBN 0-521-81048-5 .
  • with Christof Mauch : Berlin - Washington, 1800–2000. Capital Cities, Cultural Representation, and National Identities. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2005, ISBN 978-0-521-84117-7 ( review ).
  • with Hartmut Lehmann , James J. Sheehan : The Second Generation. Émigrés from Nazi Germany as Historians. With a biobibliographical guide. Berghahn, New York et al. 2016, ISBN 978-1-78238-985-9 .

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Remarks

  1. ^ New Humboldt Prize winner at the Chair of Contemporary History. The German-American historian Andreas Daum has been awarded a Carl Friedrich von Siemens Research Prize from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. LMU historical seminar, February 11, 2019. Oliver Hochadel: Historian Andreas Daum on Humboldt: “He was an insider and an outsider” . In: Der Standard , September 11, 2019, accessed November 19, 2019.
  2. ^ Andreas W. Daum: Kennedy in Berlin. Politics, culture and emotions in the Cold War. Paderborn 2003, pp. 123-127. See Tim B. Müller: Strategic Intelligence. Why America won the Cold War of Ideas. In: Internationale Politik 60 (2005), p. 133.
  3. ^ Andreas W. Daum: Kennedy in Berlin. Politics, culture and emotions in the Cold War. Paderborn 2003, pp. 20 and 22.
  4. ↑ See Andreas W. Daum: The Irony of the Untimely. Notes on Alexander von Humboldt. In: Journal for the history of ideas. 4 (2010), pp. 5-23; Andreas W. Daum: Social Relations, Shared Practices, and Emotions. Alexander von Humboldt's Excursion into Literary Classicism and the Challenges to Science around 1800. In: Journal of Modern History. 91 (2019), pp. 1-37.
  5. ↑ See the discussions by Manfred Hanisch in: sehepunkte 19 (2019), No. 5 [15. May 2019], ( online ); Ewald Grothe in: Yearbook on Liberalism Research , 2019, 1 ( online ).
  6. ^ Andreas W. Daum: Alexander von Humboldt. Munich 2019, p. 2.
  7. ^ New Humboldt Prize winner at the Chair of Contemporary History. The German-American historian Andreas Daum has been awarded a Carl Friedrich von Siemens Research Prize from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. LMU history seminar, February 11, 2019.
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SURNAME Daum, Andreas W.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Daum, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century