Edgar R. Rosen

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Edgar Robert Rosen (born June 18, 1911 in Berlin ; † December 10, 1994 in Braunschweig ) was an American-German political scientist. He was the first professor of political science at the Technical University of Braunschweig .

Life

Rosen was the only child of the dentist Jaky Rosen and his wife Margot, b. Loewinberg, both of Jewish faith , who lived in Berlin but were American citizens. Her son was also granted American citizenship. Rosen initially received private lessons and then attended the bilingual French grammar school in Berlin until he graduated from high school . From 1929 he studied law, political science and history at the University of Berlin . In 1933 Rosen became his graduation from the University of Leipzig Dr. phil. PhD . The subject of his dissertation was Italian fascism .

In 1937 Rosen left Germany and moved to the USA , which was possible for him as an American citizen without a visa. His wife Edith, b. Labor, whom he had married shortly before in Cologne , however, needed a permit and was able to come after Rosen had obtained guarantees from American friends.

In the United States, Rosen worked as a journalist for The Christian Science Monitor . In 1948 he was given the opportunity to continue his academic work at the University of Missouri at Kansas City , where he initially worked as an assistant professor and later, until 1965, as a full professor of History and Government .

After the Second World War , Rosen again contacted German colleagues. In 1954/55 he represented Ossip K. Flechtheim at the German University of Politics in Berlin, in 1959/60 he was visiting professor at the Otto Suhr Institute at the Free University of Berlin , and in 1963 he took over a professorship for Theodor Eschenburg at the University of Tübingen . In 1965 he returned completely to Germany and took over the newly established chair for political science at the Technical University of Braunschweig , which was renamed the Technical University in 1968 . In 1976 he retired and was succeeded by Gilbert Ziebura . Since 1975 he has been a full member of the Braunschweig Scientific Society .

Rosen's main scientific interests were in the history and system of government in Italy . In his last, two-part, study, Kingdom of the South , he summarized the results of his research into Italy. He could no longer present a planned third volume. For his research he was honored with the title Cavalliere dell'Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana .

In addition, Rosen dealt with the work of Theodor Fontane as a journalist .

Fonts (selection)

  • Fascism and its state idea. A contribution to the intellectual history of the new Italy. C. Heymann, Berlin 1933, OCLC 40429937 .
  • Mussolini and Germany 1922–1923. In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte . Volume 5, 1957, Issue 1, pp. 19–41, online (PDF) accessed January 3, 2016.
  • Mete Fontane, letters to parents. 1880-1882; Word and letter-based edition based on the manuscripts. Edited and illustrated by Edgar R. Rosen. 2nd edition, Propylaen, Frankfurt / Berlin / Vienna 1975, ISBN 3-549-05336-3 .
  • Kingdom of the South. Part 1, Goltze, Göttingen 1988, ISBN 3-88452-250-7 .
  • Kingdom of the South. Part 2, Goltze, Göttingen 1990, ISBN 3-88452-256-6 .
  • Fontane's. Döring, Braunschweig 1994, ISBN 3-925268-14-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Unless otherwise stated, the representation is based on: Karl Heinrich Olsen: Edgar R. Rosen. 1995 yearbook of the Braunschweigische Wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft, pp. 192–195, online version ( Memento from March 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF), accessed on January 3, 2016.
  2. ↑ There are different details about the Leipzig doctoral supervisor. Wittebur names Hans Freyer , Olsen names Walter Goetz . Compare Klemes Wittebur: The German Sociology in Exile 1933-1945. A biographical cartography. Lit-Verlag, Münster / Hamburg 1991, p. 92, and Karl Heinrich Olsen: Edgar R. Rosen. 1995 yearbook of the Braunschweigische Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft, pp. 192–195, here p. 192.
  3. ^ Edgar R. Rosen: History of the development of fascism and its state thought. C. Heymann, Berlin 1933.
  4. ^ History of the Institute for Social Sciences at the TU Braunschweig ( Memento from January 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 3, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Rosen, Edgar R.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rosen, Edgar Robert (full name); Rosen, Edgar Louis Robert; Roser, Edgar Lewis Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American-German political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH December 10, 1994
Place of death Braunschweig