David Blackbourn

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David Gordon Blackbourn (born November 1, 1949 in Spilsby ) is a British historian who specializes in German and modern European history. He has been the Cornelius Vanderbilt Distinguished Chair of History at Vanderbilt University since 2012 . Previously, he was Coolidge Professor of History at Harvard University , where he was head of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies .

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After his doctorate at Jesus College of Cambridge University in 1976 taught Blackbourn initial period of 16 years at the University of London , before moving in 1992 to the United States to conduct research at Harvard University. In 2012 he moved from there to Vanderbilt University in the US state of Tennessee .

Blackbourn received early attention with Mythen deutscher Historschschrift (1980, not until 1984 in English as The Peculiarities of German History ; with Geoff Eley), a critique of the thesis of the “ German Sonderweg ”. Most recently, Die Eroberung der Natur (2006, German 2007) appeared, a story of the development of German rivers and moorland landscapes in modern times with a chapter on National Socialism , in which Blackbourn talks about genocide , the nimbus of the border, under the heading "Race and Land Reclamation" "Wild East" and the war of conquest, which ended in a war of extermination, writes as "Indian Wars".

In addition to teaching and researching, Blackbourn is co-editor of Past & Present ; Academic advisor to the “ Leibniz Institute for European History ” in Mainz and the Friends of the German Historical Institute in Washington . 1998–1999 and 2000–2002 he was director of the history department at Harvard; 2003–2004 President of the Central European History Committee of the American Historical Association .

In 2007 Blackbourn was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Fonts (selection)

  • Class, Religion, and Local Politics in Wilhelmine Germany. The Center Party in Württemberg before 1914. Steiner, Wiesbaden 1980, ISBN 3-515-03298-3 .
  • (with Geoff Eley ) The Peculiarities of German History: Bourgeois Society and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Germany. Oxford University Press, Oxford / New York 1984, ISBN 0-19-873058-6 ( online ).
    • Translation: Myths of German historiography. The failed bourgeois revolution of 1848. Edited by Dieter Groh , Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin / Vienna 1980, ISBN 3-548-35068-2 .
  • Populists and Patricians: Essays in Modern German History. Allen & Unwin, London / Boston 1987, ISBN 0-04-943047-5 .
  • Popular piety and belief in progress in the Kulturkampf . Steiner, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-515-05045-0 .
  • (Ed. With Richard J. Evans ) The German Bourgeoisie: Essays on the Social History of the German Middle Class from the Late Eighteenth to the Early Twentieth Century. Routledge, London / New York 1991, ISBN 0-415-03597-X .
  • Marpingen: Apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Nineteenth-Century Germany. Knopf, New York 1994, ISBN 0-679-41843-1 .
    • Translation: "When you see her again, ask her who she is". Apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Marpingen - the rise and fall of German Lourdes. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1997, ISBN 3-498-00583-9 .
  • The Long Nineteenth Century: A History of Germany, 1780-1918. Oxford University Press, Oxford / New York 1998, ISBN 0-19-507671-0 .
  • A Sense of Place: New Directions in German History. German Historical Institute, London 1999, ISBN 0-9533570-2-3 .
  • The Conquest of Nature: Water, Landscape, and the Making of Modern Germany. Cape, London 2006, ISBN 0-224-06071-6 .
    • Translation: The Conquest of Nature: A History of the German Landscape. Translated by Udo Rennert. DVA, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-421-05958-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The International Who's Who 2001. 64th edition. Routledge, London 2000, p. 162.
  2. ^ New faculty: David Blackbourn communes with the past , Presentation of Blackbourn on the pages of Vanderbilt University, November 28, 2012 (accessed October 15, 2013).
  3. ↑ David Blackbourn: The conquest of nature: A history of the German landscape. DVA, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-421-05958-1 , Chapter 5, pp. 307-376.
  4. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter B. (PDF; 1.2 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved May 17, 2020 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Blackbourn, David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blackbourn, David Gordon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 1, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Spilsby