Arthur E. Imhof

Arthur E. Imhof, 2012

Arthur Erwin Imhof (born April 20, 1939 in Naters , Canton of Valais ) is a Swiss historian and demographer .

Imhof studied history in Zurich , Brussels, Paris and Rome. After receiving his doctorate in Zurich in 1965, he moved to the Justus Liebig University in Giessen , where he completed his habilitation in 1973 and was given a temporary lectureship. Until his retirement in 2004 he was Professor of Modern History and Social History at the Friedrich Meinecke Institute of the Free University of Berlin . From 1980 to 1995 he taught several times at Brazilian universities.

Imhof is a member of the Royal Norwegian Academy of Sciences .

Fonts (selection)

• The Peace of Vervins 1598. Keller, Aarau 1966 (dissertation).
• Bernadotte . French revolutionary general and Swedish-Norwegian king . Musterschmidt, Göttingen 1970, ISBN 3-7881-0055-9 .
• Basics of Nordic history. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1970, ISBN 3-534-05347-8 .
• Introduction to historical demography. CH Beck, Munich 1977, ISBN 3-406-06990-8 .
• The lost worlds. Coping with everyday life through our ancestors. CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-30270-X .
• The life time. About postponed death and the art of living. CH Beck, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-406-33211-0 .
• Ars moriendi . The art of dying then and now . Böhlau, Vienna and Cologne 1991, ISBN 3-205-05361-3 .
• The unfinished individual. Böhlau, Cologne 1992, ISBN 3-412-02092-3 .
• The precarious life. Life, hardship and death on votive tablets. S. Hirzel, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-7776-0688-X .
• The art of dying. How our ancestors learned to die. S. Hirzel, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-7776-0687-1 .

literature

• Alexander Pinwinkler : Historical population research. Germany and Austria in the 20th century, Wallstein Verlag: Göttingen 2014, here esp. 256–277.

Web links

• Literature by and about Arthur E. Imhof in the catalog of the German National Library
• Historical Demographics I, CD-ROM Edition
• A long night of festivals and rituals