Dieter Groh

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Dieter Groh (born January 28, 1932 in Frankfurt am Main ; † July 29, 2012 in Heidelberg ) was a German historian .

Live and act

Dieter Groh studied law , history , philosophy and Slavic studies in Heidelberg and Paris from 1952 to 1958 . In 1959 he was at John Kuhn at the University of Heidelberg to the Dr. phil. doctorate , then he worked until 1968 as a research assistant at the Institute for Social and Economic History with Werner Conze and received his habilitation in 1970 . In the same year he became a lecturer and head of the history department. In 1974 he was appointed professor of modern history at the University of Konstanz .

At the University of Konstanz he was chairman of the central committee for teaching issues from 1976 to 1980 and dean of the philosophy faculty from 1985 to 1987 . Groh worked at several foreign research institutions, such as the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris; he was associate professor at the University of Paris-Nanterre and visiting professor at the Universities of St. Gallen and Bern as well as at the ETH Zurich .

Groh was a member and leader of several domestic and foreign research communities and projects. From 1996 to 2002 he was project manager in the Collaborative Research Center “Literature and Anthropology” at the University of Konstanz. From 1991 to 1996 he was co-editor of the magazine “Gaia. Ecological Perspectives in Science, Humanities and Economics ". In 1997 Dieter Groh retired . On the occasion of Groh's 70th birthday, the Collaborative Research Center 511 “Literature and Anthropology” and the Cultural Studies Research College “Norm and Symbol” held a multi-day conference at the University of Konstanz in November 2002.

Dieter Groh was married to the literary scholar Ruth Groh since 1955 , with whom he also published together. He was the father of two sons.

Fonts

Dieter Groh has published over 120 publications, including monographs and scientific articles as a single author, co-author and editor.

  • with Dmitrij Tschizewskij (Ed.): Europe and Russia. Texts on the problem of Western European and Russian self-image. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1959.
  • Russia and the way Europe sees itself. Luchterhand, Neuwied 1961.
  • with Werner Conze: The labor movement in the national movement. German Social Democracy before, during and after the founding of the Reich. Klett, Stuttgart 1966.
  • Negative integration and revolutionary attentism. German social democracy on the eve of the First World War. Propylaea, Berlin 1973, ISBN 3-549-07281-3 .
  • Critical history with the intention of emancipating. Thoughts on history as a social science. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1973, ISBN 3-17-001444-7 .
  • with Ruth Groh: worldview and appropriation of nature. On the cultural history of nature. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-518-28539-4 .
  • with Peter Brandt : "Patriotic journeymen". Social Democracy and the Nation 1860–1990. Beck, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-406-36727-5 .
  • Anthropological Dimensions of History. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1992, ISBN 3-518-28592-0 .
  • with Ruth Groh: The outer world of the inner world. On the cultural history of nature 2. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-518-28818-0 .
  • with Michael Kempe, Franz Mauelshagen (ed.): Natural catastrophes. Contributions to their interpretation, perception and representation in text and images from antiquity to the 20th century. Literature and Anthropology, Volume 13. Narr, Tübingen 2002, ISBN 3-8233-5712-3 .
  • Creation in contradiction. Interpretations of the nature of man from Genesis to the Reformation. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-518-29089-4 .
  • Divine world economy. Perspectives of the Scientific Revolution from the 15th to the 17th Century. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-518-29545-8 .
  • Frank Hertweck, Dimitrios Kisoudis (ed.): As long as the empire is there. Carl Schmitt in conversation with Klaus Figge and Dieter Groh 1971. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-13452-6 .

Propylaea history of Germany

Dieter Groh was the editor of the ten-part Propylaen history of Germany , which was published from 1984 to 1994 by Propylaen-Verlag Berlin.

literature

  • Bernhard Kleeberg, Tilmann Walter, Fabio Crivellari: Primitive man and science. An inventory. Festschrift for Dieter Groh. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2005, ISBN 3-534-17461-5 .
  • Lorenz Jäger: awakening thanks to ascent. Thinking historian: On the death of Dieter Groh. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, August 7, 2012, No. 182, p. 31.

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personal data
SURNAME Groh, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH July 29, 2012
Place of death Heidelberg