George L. Mosse

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George L. Mosse, Visiting Professor at Cambridge University in 1991

Georg Lachmann-Mosse , later George L. Mosse (born September 20, 1918 in Berlin , † January 22, 1999 in Madison , Wisconsin ) was an American historian of German-Jewish origin.

Life

As the son of publishers Hans and Felicia Mosse (1888–1972), he grew up sheltered in Berlin. He was a grandson of the Berlin newspaper publisher Rudolf Mosse and the great cousin of the historian Werner E. Mosse . After elementary school he switched to the Berlin Mommsen-Gymnasium and in 1928 to the boarding school of the Schloss Salem school .

After the seizure of power of the Nazis , he emigrated in April 1933, at the age of 14, with his mother and sister Hilde (1912-1982) to Switzerland, his father to France. Later George L. Mosse also went to France and from there to study in Great Britain. In 1939 his parents divorced.

1936-1939 he studied in Cambridge , later at Haverford College in Haverford , Pennsylvania in the USA, where he took the bachelor's degree in 1941. During this time, Mosse became a US citizen. At Harvard he received his doctorate in 1946. From 1944 he had teaching positions, later an assistant professor at the University of Iowa .

In 1955 he became professor of European history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison . In his work The Culture of Western Europe: The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, published in 1961 , an Introduction , he summarized this subject matter. From 1969 he taught German history every second semester at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem , where he was the first holder of the chair for German history from 1980–85.

Since 1993 he was also AD White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University . He was the first to be appointed research historian in residence at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum (opened in 1993) .

Act

George Mosse was an outsider in many ways: as the son of one of the richest families in Berlin, as an avowed Jew, as an emigrant, as an avowed homosexual. As a historian, he was particularly concerned with the 20th century. He became known for his studies on the history of European Jewry , racism and the relationship between nationalism and sexuality .

George L. Mosse Humanities Building (right) on the University of Wisconsin campus

The American Historical Association has awarded the George L. Mosse Prize since 2000 .

George L. Mosse is the namesake of the Mosse Lectures , a series of lectures that has been taking place at the Humboldt University of Berlin since 1997 .

Awards and honors

Works (selection)

in German
  • International Fascism, 1920–1945 . Edited with Walter Laqueur , Nymphenburger, Munich 1966. First in English, Harper & Row, New York 1966.
  • Left-wing intellectuals between the two world wars. Edited with Walter Laqueur, Nymphenburger 1969. First in English by Harper & Row, New York 1966.
  • Outbreak of war in 1914 . Edited with Walter Laqueur, Nymphenburger 1970. First in English by Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London 1966.
  • Racism: a symptom of disease in 19th and 20th century European history . Athenaeum, Königstein im Taunus 1978. ISBN 3-7610-8029-8 (translation of Toward the Final Solution: A History of European Racism . Howard Ready, New York, 1978)
  • One nation one empire one leader. The Volkish Origins of National Socialism . Athenaeum, Königstein im Taunus 1979. ISBN 3-7610-8056-5 (translation of The Crisis of German ideology . New York 1964)
  • Nationalism and sexuality . Rowohlt, Hamburg 1987 ISBN 3-499-55448-8
  • The first World War and the brutalization of politics. Reflections on political rights, racism and the German special path . In: Manfred Funke , Hans-Adolf Jacobsen , Hans-Helmuth Knütter & Hans-Peter Schwarz (eds.): Democracy and dictatorship. Spirit and shape of political rule in Germany and Europe. Festschrift for Karl Dietrich Bracher . Series: Series of publications, studies on history and politics, 250th Federal Agency for Political Education , Bonn 1987 ISSN  0435-7604 ISBN 3-923423-72-1 & Droste , Düsseldorf 1987 ISBN 3-7700-0730-1 pp. 127–140
  • The history of racism in Europe. Fischer, Frankfurt 1990 ISBN 3-596-10237-5 (Title of the English original (1978): Toward the Final Solution: A History of European Racism . Paperback 1997, ISBN 978-0865274280 )
  • "I will remain an emigrant." Conversations with George L. Mosse. Eds. Irene Runge & Uwe Stelbrink. Dietz, Berlin 1991. ISBN 3-320-01754-3
  • The Volkish Revolution. About the spiritual roots of National Socialism . Athenaeum, Königstein & Hain, Meisenheim 1991, ISBN 3-445-04765-0
  • Jewish intellectuals in Germany. Between religion and nationalism. Campus, Frankfurt 1992. ISBN 3-593-34627-3
  • Favor for the fatherland. National heroism and nameless death . Klett-Cotta , 1993. ISBN 3-608-91622-9
  • National Socialist everyday life . Beltz-Athenaeum, Weinheim 1993. ISBN 3-89547-815-6
  • The nationalization of the masses. Political symbolism and mass movements from the Wars of Liberation to the Third Reich . Campus, Frankfurt 1993. ISBN 3-593-34939-6 (Original title: The Nationalization of the Masses: Political Symbolism and Mass Movements in Germany, from the Napoleonic Wars Through the Thrird Reich . Paperback 2001, ISBN 978-0865274310 )
  • The image of the man. To the construction of modern masculinity . Fischer, Frankfurt 1997. ISBN 3-10-050605-7
  • The homosexual commemorate Nazi victims. Foreword Claudia Neusüß, introduction to the HomoMonument initiative, contributions from GLM and others; Heinrich Böll Foundation , Berlin 1999 ISBN 3-927760-36-6
  • From a big house. Memories of a German-Jewish historian . Ullstein, München 2003. ISBN 3-550-07583-9 (Title of the original: Confronting History: The Memoirs of George L. Mosse , Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 2000. Paperback 2013, ISBN 978-0299165840 ).
in English
  • The Struggle for Sovereignty in England. From the Reign of Queen Elizabeth to the Petition of Right . Michigan State College Pr., East Lansing 1950
  • The Crisis of German Ideology. Intellectual Origins of the 3rd Reich. New York 1964
  • Germans and Jews. The Right, the Left, and the Search for a "Third Force" in Pre-Nazi Germany. New York 1974
  • Fallen Soldiers. Reshaping the Memory of the World Wars. New York 1990, ISBN 0-19-506247-7

literature

  • Andreas W. Daum , Hartmut Lehmann , James J. Sheehan (eds.): The Second Generation. Émigrés from Nazi Germany as Historians. With a Biobibliographic Guide . Berghahn Books, New York 2016, ISBN 978-1-78238-985-9 .
  • Elisabeth Kraus: The Mosse family. German-Jewish bourgeoisie in the 19th and 20th centuries . Munich: Beck, 1999, ISBN 3-406-44694-9 .
  • Dieter Langewiesche: Educational liberalism and German Judaism. Historical reflections on the footsteps of George L. Mosse . In: Medaon 12 (2018), 22 ( online ).
  • Lothar Mertens : He remained an emigrant. Obituary for GLM in: Sachor. Journal for Antisemitism Research, 9: From Emancipation to Disenfranchisement. German-Jewish life paths Essen: Klartext, 1999 pp. 87–89 ISSN  0948-2415 ISBN 3-88474-789-4 .

Web links

Commons : George L. Mosse  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Georg Lachmann Mosse: Confronting History - A Memoir. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2000, pp. 53-70.
  2. ↑ Andreas W. Daum, Hartmut Lehmann, James J. Sheehan (eds.): The Second Generation. Émigrés from Nazi Germany as Historians. With a Biobibliographic Guide. Berghahn Books, New York 2016, ISBN . Berghahn Books, New York 2016, ISBN 978-1-78238-985-9 , pp. 429–432 (short biography and list of publications) .
  3. ↑ The Idea of ​​Sovereignty in England, from Sir Thomas Smith to Sir Edward Coke , published in 1950 under the title The Struggle for Sovereignty in England .
  4. ^ 'Koebner Professorship of History'.
  5. ↑ www.librarything.com
  6. ↑ Michael Brenner: Rich, Jewish and Talented: The Memoirs of George Mosse. Süddeutsche Zeitung, October 13, 2003.
  7. ↑ http://www.historians.org/prizes/index.cfm?PrizeAbbrev=Mosse George L. Mosse Prize of the American Historical Association
  8. ↑ http://www.mosse-lectures.de/ Website of the Mosse Lectures at the Humboldt University in Berlin
  9. ^ Member History: George L. Mosse. American Philosophical Society, accessed December 18, 2018 .
  10. ↑ only the Droste edition. with cpl. Bracher's bibliography
personal data
SURNAME Mosse, George L.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mosse, George Lachmann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian of German origin
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 22, 1999
Place of death Madison , Wisconsin , USA