Friedrich Lenger

Friedrich Lenger (born November 15, 1957 in Gelsenkirchen ) is a German historian .

Friedrich Lenger studied history and social sciences at the Universities of Düsseldorf and Bielefeld from 1976 to 1985 as well as history, cultural anthropology and political science as a scholarship holder at the University of Michigan . In 1979 he did his Masters in Michigan. He received his doctorate in 1985 in Düsseldorf. From 1985 to 1994 he was a research assistant and university assistant at the University of Tübingen . He completed his habilitation in modern history in 1993. In 1994 he was awarded a Heisenberg grant from the German Research Foundation. Lenger was professor at the universities of Bielefeld and Tübingen (1994/95). From 1995 to 1999 he was Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg . Since 1999 he has been a professor for Middle and Modern History at the University of Giessen . In 2001/2002 he held the Konrad Adenauer Chair at the Center for German and European Studies at Georgetown University . Since 2009 he has been Deputy Chairman of the Board of Trustees for German Humanities Institutes Abroad .

His research focus is the social history of the 19th and 20th centuries. He has dealt in depth with the labor movement, the history of the city and urbanization and the history of the bourgeoisie. Lenger is the author of the volume on the industrial revolution and the founding of the nation state of the latest edition of the classic textbook of German history, the " Gebhardt ". For 2015 he was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize .

He was a Visiting Fellow at St Antony's College , Oxford in 1997/98 . He was a fellow at the Kulturwissenschaftlichen Kolleg Konstanz 2009/10, a fellow at the Kulturwissenschaftlichen Kolleg Munich 2011/12 and has been a member of the Commission for Social and Economic History of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences since 2013 . Since 2015 he has been a full member of the International Commission for the History of Towns . In 2019, Friedrich Lenger was accepted as a member of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in the Cultural Studies section .

He is married and lives in Tübingen.

Fonts

Monographs

• Modern metropolises. A European city history since 1850. Beck, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-406-65199-1 .
• Social science around 1900. Studies on Werner Sombart and some of his contemporaries. Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2009, ISBN 978-3-631-59408-7 .
• City stories. Germany, Europe and the USA since 1800. Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2009, ISBN 978-3-631-58855-0 .
• Industrial revolution and nation-state establishment. 1849-1870s (= Handbook of German History . Vol. 15). 10th, completely revised edition. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-608-60015-9 .
• Werner Sombart. 1863-1941. A biography. Beck, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-406-38094-8 (3rd edition, ibid. 2012, ISBN 978-3-406-62021-8 ).
• Social history of the German craftsmen since 1800 (= Edition Suhrkamp. 1532 = NF Bd. 532 New historical library ). Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1988, ISBN 3-518-11532-4 .
• Between the petty bourgeoisie and the proletariat. Studies on the social history of the Düsseldorf craftsmen 1816–1878 (= critical studies on historical science . Vol. 71). Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1986, ISBN 3-525-35731-1 (also: Düsseldorf, University, dissertation, 1984/1985).

Editorships

• with Ansgar Nünning : Modern media events. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2008, ISBN 978-3-534-20367-3 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Friedrich Lenger in the catalog of the German National Library
• Page from Lenger at the University of Giessen
• Deutschlandfunk cultural issues. Debates and documents of December 23, 2018: How a city becomes a metropolis

Remarks

1. ↑ member entry by Friedrich Lenger in the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
2. ↑ University. "Large number of open questions". In: Lauterbacher Anzeiger , July 10, 2015.