Fritz K. Ringer

Fritz K. Ringer (* 1934 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ; † February 3, 2006 in Washington, DC ) was an American historian of German origin.

Life

Ringer came to the United States with his family in 1947 . He graduated from Amherst College in 1956. In 1961 he earned a PhD from Harvard . Ringer taught European Intellectual History at Harvard University (1960–62), Indiana University (1966–69) and Boston University (1970–84) and then until his retirement in 2001 as a Mellon- Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh . In 2001/2002 he was a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and from 2002 until his death honorary professor at Georgetown University , Washington DC.

Services

Fritz K. Ringer's research focus was initially on the history of German universities in the late 19th and first third of the 20th century. In his best-known work The Decline of the German Mandarins: The German Academic Community 1890–1933 (1969) he advocated the thesis that in the sense of the “German special path”, the elitist, idealistically oriented mandarins of German university teachers paved the way for development into National Socialism . He later examined higher education in Germany, Great Britain and France for the same period from a comparative perspective. In the nineties, Ringer increasingly occupied himself with the life and work of the German sociologist Max Weber . In the course of his work as a university lecturer, he received seven renowned research grants , including from the National Endowment for the Humanities , the National Science Foundation , the National Humanities Center , the Guggenheim Foundation and the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin .

Important works

• The decline of the German mandarins. The German academic community 1890–1933 . Harvard University Press, Cambridge / Mass. 1969. Dt. The scholars. The decline of the German mandarin 1890–1933 . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1983. ISBN 3-12-912030-0
• Education and society in Modern Europe . Indiana University Press, Bloomington 1979. ISBN 0-253-31929-3
• Fields of knowledge: French academic culture in comparative perspective 1890–1920 . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1992. ISBN 2-7351-0419-2 (German Fields of Knowledge: Education, Science and Social Advancement in France and Germany around 1900. Library for Educational Research Vol. 23. Beltz, Weinheim-Basel-Berlin 2003 . ISBN 3-407-32049-3 )
• Max Weber's methodology: the unification of the cultural and social sciences . Harvard University Press, Cambridge / Mass. 1997. ISBN 0-674-55657-7
• Trouble in Academe: A Memoir . toExcel, San José 1999. ISBN 1-58348-205-9
• Max Weber: an intellectual biography . University of Chicago Press, Chicago / Ill. 2004. ISBN 0-226-72005-5

Web links

• Literature by and about Fritz K. Ringer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Hartmut Titze: Review of Fields of Knowledge in: Erziehungswissenschaftliche Revue (EWR) 2004, accessed on July 15, 2011
• Andrew Lees, Rutgers University at Camden: In memoriam Fritz K. Ringer ; Obituary on the American Historical Association (AHA) website , accessed July 15, 2011
• Jonathan Harwood, University of Manchester: In memoriam Fritz K. Ringer ; Obituary for H-Soz-u-Kult , accessed on July 15, 2011 (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Andrew Lees: In memoriam Fritz K. Ringer
2. ^ Andrew Lees: In memoriam Fritz K. Ringer
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