George L. Mosse
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 .
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
- Membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1985)
- Goethe Medal of the Goethe Institute (1988)
- Award for Scholarly Distinction, American Historical Association (1996)
- Member of the American Philosophical Society (1997)
- Leo Baeck Medal (1998) from the Leo Baeck Institute New York
- Honorary doctorate from the University of Siegen (1998)
- At the University of Wisconsin , the humanities building is named after Mosse
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
- Literature by and about George L. Mosse in the catalog of the German National Library
- Comprehensive Bibliography (English)
- Official website of the Mosse Lectures at the Humboldt University of Berlin
- George L. Mosse Program in History ( Memento from March 30, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ^ Georg Lachmann Mosse: Confronting History - A Memoir. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2000, pp. 53-70.
- ↑ 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) .
- ↑ 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 .
- ^ 'Koebner Professorship of History'.
- ↑ www.librarything.com
- ↑ Michael Brenner: Rich, Jewish and Talented: The Memoirs of George Mosse. Süddeutsche Zeitung, October 13, 2003.
- ↑ http://www.historians.org/prizes/index.cfm?PrizeAbbrev=Mosse George L. Mosse Prize of the American Historical Association
- ↑ http://www.mosse-lectures.de/ Website of the Mosse Lectures at the Humboldt University in Berlin
- ^ Member History: George L. Mosse. American Philosophical Society, accessed December 18, 2018 .
- ↑ only the Droste edition. with cpl. Bracher's bibliography
personal data | |
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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 |