Gerhard Dohrn-van Rossum

Gerhard Dohrn-van Rossum (born May 26, 1947 in Bad Reichenhall ) is a German historian .

Life

Dohrn-van Rossum graduated from the Birklehof in Hinterzarten ( Black Forest ) in 1966 and after studying history and philosophy in Berlin and Heidelberg as well as working as a university assistant with Reinhart Koselleck in Bielefeld, he was a visiting professor in Chicago and Zurich . In 1994 he was a professor at the Institute of European History, Department of History of the Middle Ages, to the TU Chemnitz appointed . In addition to his actual research area, Dohrn-van Rossum emerged with publications on the subject of time and time measurement .

Publications (selection)

• The family in history. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1982, ISBN 3-525-33460-5 (together with Heinz Reif ).
• In the web of time. Interdisciplinary human experience of time. Hitzel, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-8047-1057-3 .
• Political body, organism, organization. On the history of natural imagery and terminology in political language. Dissertation, Bielefeld University 1977.
• The story of the hour. Clocks and modern time systems. Hanser, Munich 1992, ISBN 978-3-446-16046-0 ; Reprint Anaconda, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-86647-139-9 .
• with Marcus Popplow: watch, watchmaker. In: Encyclopedia of Modern Times. Volume 13: Subsistence farming - vassal. Stuttgart 2011, Col. 887-896.

Web links

• Literature by and about Gerhard Dohrn-van Rossum in the catalog of the German National Library
• Prof. Dr. Gerhard Dohrn-van Rossum (TU Chemnitz, Philosophical Faculty / History) ( Memento from July 5, 2007 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Short biography .
2. ↑ See Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde , Gerhard Dohrn-van Rossum: organ, organism, organization, political body. In: Basic historical concepts. Historical lexicon on political and social language in Germany . Edited by Otto Brunner , Werner Conze , Reinhart Koselleck. Volume 4. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1978, pp. 519-622.