Christof Dejung

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Christof Dejung (* 1968 ) is a Swiss historian and professor of modern general history at the Historical Institute of the University of Bern .

Life

Christof Dejung studied general history, German linguistics and literature, and social psychology at the University of Zurich . In 1997 he was awarded the main prize of the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Zurich for his licentiate thesis on the different perceptions of forest decline in German and French-speaking Switzerland. Between 1998 and 2006 he worked as an assistant at the Research Center for Social and Economic History at the University of Zurich and from 1998 to 2003 as an employee and board member in the oral history project “Archimob - Memories of the Second World War in Switzerland”. In 2004 Christof Dejung received his doctorate from the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Zurich with a thesis on the cultural and everyday history of military service in Switzerland 1939–1945.

After receiving his doctorate, he conducted research in Zurich , Göttingen and Constance . In 2010 he completed his habilitation project on the social, cultural and historical foundations of global trade using the example of the Swiss trading company Gebrüder Volkart at the University of Konstanz . Christof Dejung received the Humanities International Prize in 2015 for the translation of Die Fäden des Global Markts into English for the promotion of outstanding publications in the humanities and social sciences.

Between 2013 and 2015 was Christof Dejung as Marie Curie Fellow at Wolfson College of the University of Cambridge . He later held a substitute professorship at the Free University of Berlin (2015–16), a visiting professorship at the University of Basel (2016) and a complementary professorship at the University of Konstanz (2016–17).

Christof Dejung has been a full professor of recent general history at the Historical Institute of the University of Bern since 2018. His main research interests include a. Global history, economic and corporate history as well as theory and methodology of the historical sciences. He is co-editor of the Peripherien series - Contributions to European History by Böhlau Verlag .

Fonts (selection)

  • The threads of the global market. A social and cultural history of world trade using the example of the trading company Gebrüder Volkart . Böhlau, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-412-20986-5 .
  • with Niels P. Petersson (Ed.): Foundations of World-Wide Economic Integration. Power Institutions and Global Markets 1850–1930 . Cambridge University Press, New York 2013, ISBN 978-1-107-03015-2 .
  • with Monika Dommann and Daniel Speich Chassé (eds.): In search of the economy. Historical approaches . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-16-153379-2 .
  • with Martin Lengwiler (Ed.): Ränder der Moderne. New approaches to European history (1800–1930) (= peripheries, volume 1), Böhlau, Cologne 2016, ISBN 978-3-412-22535-3 .
  • Commodity, Trading, Globalization and the Colonial World. Spinning the Web of the Global Market . Routledge, New York 2018, ISBN 978-1-138-18168-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ As one calls into the forest, it sounds back. The different perception of “forest dying” in German and French Switzerland. In: infoclio.ch. Retrieved November 23, 2018 .
  2. ^ Archimob - Memories of the Second World War in Switzerland. Retrieved February 3, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Christof Strauss: Christof Dejung: Active service and gender order. A cultural and everyday history of military service in Switzerland 1939–1945. Zurich 2006. In: HSK / Infoclio / Reviews / Books. August 9, 2006, accessed November 23, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Prof. Dr. Christof Dejung. April 26, 2018. Retrieved November 23, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Dejung, Christof
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1968