Ernst Kohn-Bramstedt
Ernst Kohn-Bramstedt , since 1945 Ernest K [ohn] Bramstedt (born December 16, 1901 in Augsburg , † May 14, 1978 in London ) was a British historian and sociologist of German origin. He is the older brother of the publisher Hein Kohn .
Life
Kohn-Bramstedt received his doctorate as a historian in 1925 at the University of Berlin with a thesis on Spinoza and the state . Erich Marcks and Friedrich Meinecke were reviewers for his dissertation . He was then a study assessor at a grammar school and, from 1931, a lecturer ( German for foreigners ) at the University of Frankfurt am Main . Because of his Jewish ancestors, he was dismissed from both positions after the Nazi takeover . In 1933 he emigrated to Great Britain via the Netherlands. There he spent three years researching questions of the sociology of literature , among others with Karl Mannheim . In 1936, Kohn-Bramstedt received his doctorate in sociology from the London School of Economics and Political Science . After that he was a teacher at a secondary school until 1939. He became a British citizen in 1939, worked for the BBC for three years and from 1943 to 1947 for the Political Intelligence Division of the British Foreign Office . In 1952 he moved to Australia. There he was a research assistant until 1969 and then professor of European history at the University of Sydney . When he finished teaching, he returned to Great Britain.
Works (selection)
- Aristocracy and the middle-classes in Germany: social types in German literature 1830 - 1900 , London: King, 1937.
- Dictatorship and political police: the technique of control by fear , London: Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1945.
- Goebbels and the National Socialist Propaganda 1925 to 1945 (Translated from the English by HE Strakosch), Frankfurt a. M .: S. Fischer, 1971.
- Germany , Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1972.
Web links
- Literature by and about Ernst Kohn-Bramstedt in the catalog of the German National Library
- Letter from Kohn-Bramstedt to Ernest Manheim - short biography below (PDF; 9 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information on the curriculum vitae is based, unless otherwise proven, on: Klemens Wittebur, Die Deutsche Socziologie im Exil. 1933–1945 , Münster; Hamburg: Lit., 1991, p. 81 f.
- ↑ J. Hooper, Ernest K. Bramstedt (1901–1978). A european historian in Germany, England and Australia. In: Australian Journal of Politics and History , Vol. 31, Issue 3, December 1985, pp. 397-407.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kohn-Bramstedt, Ernst |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ernest Kohn Bramstedt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British historian and sociologist of German origin |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 16, 1901 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | augsburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 14, 1978 |
| Place of death | London |