Charles Bloch

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Charles Bloch (born May 19, 1921 in Berlin , † June 14, 1987 in Paris ) was a French historian.

Life

In his youth Bloch attended the Humanist High School in Berlin-Steglitz. In 1933 his family left Germany and emigrated to Palestine via France . There he studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he passed his master's degree. In 1946 he went to the Sorbonne in Paris to take up additional studies , which he devoted himself to at the Institute d'Études Politiques until 1948. In 1954 Bloch submitted a dissertation there , supervised by Pierre Renouvin , on Franco-British relations from 1871 to 1878.

From 1950 to 1955 Bloch was the Paris correspondent for the Davar newspaper . In 1955 he became a lecturer in French and German history at Tel Aviv University. In the 1970s he also helped found the Institute for German History there. From 1969 Bloch was also a lecturer in German history at the University of Nanterre . After his retirement, he accepted a visiting professorship at the University of Bonn for the 1987 summer semester . Due to a serious illness, he had to return to Paris, where he died in 1987.

Fonts

  • Les relations entre la France et la Grande-Bretagne 1871–1878 . Editions internationales, Paris 1955.
  • Munich 1938. England between Hitler and Prussia . European publishing house, Frankfurt am Main 1965. (together with Bernd-Jürgen Wendt and Fritz Fischer).
  • Hitler and the European Powers 1933/1934. Continuity or break . European Publishing House, Frankfurt am Main 1966.
  • The SA and the crisis of the Nazi regime in 1934 . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1970 (French edition: La Nuit des longs couteaux . 30 June 1934: Hitler liquide les siens . Julliard, Paris 1967.).
  • The Third French Republic. Development and struggle of a parliamentary democracy (1870–1940) . Koehler, Stuttgart 1972.
  • The Third Reich and the World. German foreign policy 1933–1945 . Schöningh, Paderborn 1993 (French edition: Le IIIe Reich et le monde . Imprimerie nationale, Paris 1986.).