Bernhard vom Brocke

Bernhard vom Brocke (born September 3, 1939 in Wuppertal ) is a German historian and university professor who has researched primarily on the history of science and technology in the 20th century.

Life

Vom Brocke studied history , Protestant theology and social sciences at the Georg-August University in Göttingen , the Free University of Berlin and at the University of Hamburg . He graduated in 1966 the state examination for teaching at secondary schools and was in 1969 when Gerhard Oestreich Dr. phil. PhD . He then was a research assistant , lecturer and professor of modern history at the Philipps University of Marburg between 1967 and 1980 . After a stay as a research fellow at Harvard University , he became a research fellow at the then Max Planck Institute for History in Göttingen .

From 1993 until his retirement, vom Brocke taught modern history and the history of science at the University of Kassel .

He has been an elected member of the Leibniz Society of Sciences in Berlin since 1999 and chairman of its historical commission since 2001.

Awards

• 1986 Carl von Ossietzky Prize for Contemporary History and Politics from the City of Oldenburg

Books (selection)

• Kurt Breysig. History between historicism and sociology. Matthiesen Verlag, Lübeck and Hamburg 1971, ISBN 978-3-7868-1417-7 .
• (Ed.): Sombart's "Modern Capitalism". Materials for criticism and reception. Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-423-04453-5 (= dtv-Wissenschaft , 4453).
• (Ed. Together with Rudolf Vierhaus ): Research in the field of tension between politics and society. History and structure of the Kaiser Wilhelm / Max Planck Society. On the occasion of its 75th anniversary . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-421-02744-7 .
• (Ed. Together with Hubert Laitko ): The Kaiser Wilhelm, Max Planck Society and their institutes. Studies on their history . de Gruyter, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-11-015483-8 .
• Population science - quo vadis? Possibilities and problems of a history of population science in Germany, with a systematic bibliography . Leske and Budrich, Opladen 1998, ISBN 3-8100-2070-2 .
• (Ed., With the help of Hubert Laitko): The historian Conrad Grau and the academy historiography. Scientific colloquium in memory of Conrad Grau (1932–2000) on March 15, 2003 in Berlin . Trafo-Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-89626-758-0 .

literature

• CV and selected publications by vom Brocke. In: The Kaiser Wilhelm, Max Planck Society and their institutes. Studies on their history . de Gruyter, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-11-015483-8 .
• Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar , 17th edition, Humanities and Social Sciences, Berlin 1996, p. 168.
• Brocke, Bernhard from . In: Friedhelm Golücke : Author's lexicon for student and university history. SH-Verlag, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-89498-130-X , pp. 57-61.

Web links

• Literature by and about Bernhard vom Brocke in the catalog of the German National Library
• WorldCat
• Bernhard vom Brocke on GoogleBooks