Georg Iggers

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Georg Gerson Iggers (* December 7, 1926 as Georg Gerson Igersheimer in Hamburg ; † November 26, 2017 in Canterbury Woods , Amherst) was a German-American historian . Iggers was a specialist in the history of historiography and history theory , in particular German history, historicism and intercultural historiography .

Live and act

Georg Iggers came from a Jewish family, emigrated with his parents to the United States in 1938, where he attended the Universities of Richmond (VA) and Chicago and became politically active at an early age. In Chicago in 1951 he received his Ph.D. and taught from 1950 to 1963 as a professor at African American colleges in Little Rock and New Orleans , where he was involved in the civil rights movement against racial discrimination. From 1963 to 1965 he taught at Roosevelt University in Chicago. He taught at the State University of New York at Buffalo from 1965 to 1997 . From 1961 he lived with his wife Wilma partly in Göttingen , from where he was able to establish close connections with historians from the Federal Republic and the GDR , including Hans-Ulrich Wehler , Jürgen Kocka , Walter Markov and Hartmut Zwahr . He was visiting professor at universities in the USA, Europe, Australia and China. In 1999 he was visiting professor at the TU Darmstadt . The partnership between the universities of Buffalo and Darmstadt developed from the contacts between the historian Helmut Böhme , then President of the Technical University, and Iggers.

Iggers' book The German Conception of history , published in 1968, attracted international attention . The national tradition of historical thought from Herder to the present ( German history. A critique of the traditional conception of history from Herder to the present , first in 1971, last in 1997). It is considered a classic text of the critique of historicism. The history of the 20th century and the Iggers' autobiography were first published in German, the English editions and translations into other languages ​​followed a few years later. Iggers had been a co-editor of the Journal of History since 1994 .

In 2007 Iggers received the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class for his contribution to the development of German history and the deepening of German-German academic communication. He was also the recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation's research award , an honorary doctorate from the University of Richmond (since 2001), the Philander Smith College in Little Rock (since 2002) and the University of Darmstadt (since 2006). In 1988, Iggers received the Erasmus Kittler Medal for his services to the University of Darmstadt .

Fonts (selection)

Autobiography

  • Georg G. Iggers, Wilma A. Iggers: Two sides of the story. Life report from troubled times. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2002, ISBN 3-525-36265-X .
    • English edition: Two lives in uncertain times. Facing the challenges of the 20th century as scholars and citizens. Berghahn, New York / Oxford 2006, ISBN 1-84545-138-4 .
  • Georg G. Iggers: History and Social Action beyond National and Continental Borders. In: Andreas W. Daum , Hartmut Lehmann , James J. Sheehan (eds.): The Second Generation. Émigrés from Nazi Germany as Historians. With a biobibliographical guide. Berghahn, New York 2016, ISBN 978-1-78238-985-9 , pp. 82-96.

Monographs

  • The Cult of Authority. The Political Philosophy of the Saint-Simonians. A Chapter in the Intellectual History of Totalitarianism . Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague 1958, 2nd edition 1970.
  • The German Conception of History. The National Tradition of Historical Thought from Herder to the Present. Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, Connecticut 1968.
    • German edition: German history. A critique of the traditional view of history from Herder to the present. Translated by Christian M. Barth. Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 1971.
  • New Directions in European Historiography. With a contribution by Norman Baker. Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, Connecticut 1975.
    • German edition: New History. From historicism to historical social science. An international comparison. With contributions by Norman Baker and Michael Frisch. Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 1978, ISBN 3-423-04308-3 .
  • Marxism and history today (= meeting reports of the Leibniz Society. Vol. 8). Becker, Velten 1996, ISBN 3-89597-271-1 .
  • History of the 20th Century. A critical overview in an international context. With an afterword. 2nd Edition. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1996, ISBN 3-525-33587-3 .
    • English edition: Historiography in the Twentieth Century. From Scientific Objectivity to the Postmodern Challenge. Wesleyan University Press, Hanover, NH et al. 1997, ISBN 0-8195-5302-6 .
  • with Q. Edward Wang and Supriya Mukherjee: A Global History of Modern Historiography. 2nd Edition. Routledge, New York 2017, ISBN 978-1-138-94227-1 . German edition: Geschichtskulturen. World history of historiography from 1750 to today. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-525-30050-3 .

Editorships

  • The Doctrine of Saint-Simon. In terms of exposure. First year, 1828-1829 . Translated with notes and an introduction by Georg G. Iggers. Beacon Press, Boston et al. 1958.
  • with Harold T. Parker: International handbook of Historical Studies. Contemporary Research and Theory . Methuen, London 1980, ISBN 0-416-73870-2 .
  • with James M. Powell: Leopold von Ranke and the Shaping of the Historical Discipline. Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, NY 1990, ISBN 0-8156-2469-7 .
  • Another historical look. Examples of East German social history. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-596-10834-9 .
    • English edition: Marxist historiography in transformation. East German social history in the 1980s. Translated by Bruce Little. Berg, New York 1991, ISBN 0-85496-228-X .
  • The GDR historical science as a research problem (= historical magazine. Supplement. New series, volume 27). Oldenbourg, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-486-64426-2 (International Conference on History in the GDR, Göttingen, May 30 to June 1, 1996).
  • with Dieter Schott, Hanns H. Seidler, Michael Toyka-Seid: University - History - City. Festschrift for Helmut Böhme. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2004, ISBN 3-534-18616-8 .
  • with Konrad von Moltke: Leopold von Ranke: The Theory and Practice of History. Routledge, New York 2011, ISBN 0-672-60920-7 .
  • with Q. Edward Wang: Marxist Historiographies. A global perspective. Routledge, New York 2016, ISBN 978-0-415-72343-5 .

literature

  • Andreas W. Daum : Georg G. Iggers (1926-2017). In: Central European History 51, No. 3 (2018), pp. 335–353.
  • Georg G. Iggers (1926-2017). In: Journal of History. 66 (2018), pp. 5-8.
  • Andreas W. Daum: Refugees from Nazi Germany as Historians: Origins and Migrations, Interests and Identities. In: Andreas W. Daum, Hartmut Lehmann , James J. Sheehan : The Second Generation. Émigrés from Nazi Germany as Historians. With a Biobibliographical Guide. Berghahn, New York 2016, ISBN 978-1-78238-985-9 , pp. 1–52.
  • Matthias Dohmen: Georg G. Iggers on his 90th birthday. In: Journal of History . 64 (2016), pp. 1077-1080.
  • Q. Edward Wang and Franz Fillafer (Eds.): The Many Faces of Clio. Cross-Cultural Approaches to Historiography. Essays in Honor of Georg G. Iggers. Berghahn, New York 2007, ISBN 978-1-84545-270-4 .
  • Larry Eugene Jones (Ed.): Crossing Boundaries. The Exclusion and Inclusion of Minorities in Germany and the United States. Berghahn, New York 2001, ISBN 1-57181-285-7 .
  • Gerald Diesener (Ed.): Historiographischer Rückspiegel. Georg G. Iggers on his 70th birthday (= work reports of the Institute for Cultural and Universal History Leipzig. Vol. 1). Leipziger Universitäts-Verlag, Leipzig 1997, ISBN 3-933240-08-5 .
  • Konrad Jarausch , Jörn Rüsen , Hans Schleier (Hrsg.): History before 2000. Perspectives on the history of historiography, history theory, social and cultural history. Festschrift for Georg G. Iggers on his 65th birthday (= contributions to historical culture. Vol. 5). MRM, Hagen 1991, ISBN 3-926862-27-0 .
  • Jörn Rüsen: Georg G. Iggers (1926-2017). In: Historical magazine . 307 (2018), pp. 733-740.
  • Franz L. Fillafer: Scientific news. History as enlightenment. In Memoriam Georg G. Iggers (1926-2017). In: Geschichte und Gesellschaft , vol. 44, 2018, issue 4, pp. 643–659.

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ Dale Anderson: Georg G. Iggers, renowned historian and civil rights activist . In: The Buffalo News , November 27, 2017, accessed November 28, 2017.
  2. ^ Andreas W. Daum: Georg G. Iggers (1926-2017). In: Central European History. Volume 51, 2018, pp. 335-353.
  3. ↑ Andreas W. Daum, Hartmut Lehmann, James J. Sheehan (eds.): The Second Generation. Émigrés from Nazi Germany as Historians. With a Biobibliographic Guide. New York 2016, pp. 385-387 (short biography).
  4. ^ Stefan Berger: Stefan Berger responds to Ulrich Muhlack . In: Bulletin of the German Historical Institute London 23, No. 1, May 2001, pp. 21–33, here p. 24.
  5. ^ Jörn Rüsen: Georg G. Iggers (1926–2017). In: Historical magazine . 307 (2018), pp. 733-740, here: p. 739.
  6. ↑ Andreas W. Daum, Hartmut Lehmann, James J. Sheehan (eds.): The Second Generation: Émigrés from Nazi Germany as Historians. With a Biobibliographic Guide. New York 2016, pp. 385–387, here: p. 386 (short biography).
personal data
SURNAME Iggers, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Iggers, Georg G .; Iggers, Georg Gerson; Iggers, George G .; Igersheimer, Georg Gerson
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH November 26, 2017
Place of death Canterbury Woods , Amherst