Comité International des Sciences Historiques
The Comité international des Sciences Historiques (CISH), in the Anglo-American world also International Committee of Historical Sciences (ICHS) is the worldwide organization of historians . It holds the International Day of Historians every five years and has a general assembly every three years.
The organization was founded on May 13, 1926 in Geneva . There are three types of members: the national associations (50 today), the 32 international organizations (associations for church history or military history, for example ) and nine internal commissions. The German member is the Association of Historians of Germany (VHD), the Austrian member is the Association of Austrian Historians and History Associations , and in Switzerland it is the Swiss Society for History .
International congresses of historians
There were international historians' congresses even before the committee was founded.
| count | Meeting place | year |
|---|---|---|
| - | The hague | 1898 |
| I. | Paris | 1900 |
| II. | Rome | 1903 |
| III. | Berlin | 1908 |
| IV. | London | 1913 |
| V. | Brussels | 1923 |
| VI. | Oslo | 1928 |
| VII. | Warsaw | 1933 |
| VIII. | Zurich | 1938 |
| IX. | Paris | 1950 |
| X. | Rome | 1955 |
| XI. | Stockholm | 1960 |
| XII. | Vienna | 1965 |
| XIII. | Moscow | 1970 |
| XIV. | San Francisco | 1975 |
| XV. | Bucharest | 1980 |
| XVI. | Stuttgart | 1985 |
| XVII. | Madrid | 1990 |
| XVIII. | Montréal | 1995 |
| XIX. | Oslo | 2000 |
| XX. | Sydney | 2005 |
| XXI. | Amsterdam | 2010 |
| XXII. | Jinan | 2015 |
| XXIII. | Poznan (planned) | 2020 |
The last General Assembly was in September 2012 in Budapest , the last Historians found in 2015 in China's Jinan instead. The chairman is currently and until 2020 the Italian historian Andrea Giardina.
literature
- Karl Dietrich Erdmann : The ecumenism of historians. History of the International Congress of Historians and the Comité Internationale des Sciences Historiques , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1987 (= treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class , Volume 3, Volume 158), ISBN 3-525-82442-4 .