Eugen Weber

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Eugen Joseph Weber (born April 24, 1925 in Bucharest , Romania , † May 17, 2007 in Brentwood , USA ) was an American historian . As a connoisseur of French history , he became known worldwide.

Life

Weber was born in Romania and trained in England. He first studied history at Ashville College in Windermere and then joined the United Kingdom as a soldier in World War II . Between 1942 and 1947, assignments took him to Belgium, Germany and India. After returning to Europe, he studied history at the Sorbonne in Paris , the Institut d'études politiques de Paris and the University of Cambridge .

Eugen Weber initially taught at Emmanuel College in Cambridge (1953–1954), the University of Alberta (1954–1955) and the University of Iowa (1955–1956). In 1956 Eugen Weber became professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). From 1977 to 1982 he was dean of the Faculty of Literature and Natural Sciences. He was named best UCLA professor in 1992. The Chair of Modern European History at UCLA was named after him. In 1993 he retired.

Eugen Weber had been married to the French Jacqueline Brument-Roth since 1950. He died of pancreatic cancer .

Act

Weber's main research interests were French culture and politics. He published numerous books on French history such as "The Nationalist Revival in France, 1905-1914" (1959), followed by "Action Francaise: Royalism and Reaction in Twentieth-Century France" (1962), "Peasants Into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, 1880-1914 ”(1976),“ France, Fin de Siecle ”(1986),“ My France: Politics, Culture, Myth ”(1991) and“ The Hollow Years: France in the 1930s ”(1994).

His work "A Modern History of Europe" (1971) and "The Western Tradition" (1989) became standard works of historical university education. He was awarded the Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize of the Phi Beta Kappa Society for his book Peasants into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, 1870-1914 .

Weber was a full member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (since 1977), the American Philosophical Society (since 2001) and the National Endowment for the Humanities , the Guggenheim Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies.

Fonts

  • Action Francaise (1962).
  • Varieties of Fascism (1964).
  • A Modern History of Europe (1971).
  • Peasants Into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, 1880-1914 (1976).
  • France, Fin de Siecle (1986).
  • The Hollow Years (1994).
  • Apocalypses (1999).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Member History: Eugen Weber. American Philosophical Society, accessed January 1, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Weber, Eugene
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weber, Eugen Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Bucharest , Romania
DATE OF DEATH May 17, 2007
Place of death Brentwood , USA