Gregor Thum

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Gregor Thum (2016)

Gregor Thum (born May 2, 1967 in Munich ) is a German historian .

biography

Thum studied history and Slavic studies at the Free University of Berlin and in Moscow from 1988 to 1995 . From 1995 to 2001 he was a research assistant to Karl Schlögel at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder) . In 2002 he received his doctorate there with a thesis on population exchange in Breslau / Wrocław after 1945 . The work, which was intended from the outset for a larger, also non-academic audience, achieved remarkable success on the book market, measured against the usual circulation of historical monographs. Thum taught from 2003 to 2008 and from 2010 to 2011 as visiting professor of the DAAD at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Washington in the USA . From 2008 to 2010 he was a Junior Fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) in Freiburg im Breisgau . Since 2012 he has been an Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh. He is working on a research project entitled: “Mastering the East. The German Frontier from 1800 to the Present ". Thum's main focus is on German cultural history in its relationship to Eastern Europe.

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Works

  • 1998 (Ed. With Katharina Kucher, Karl Schlögel, Bernhard Suchy): Chronicle of Russian Life in Germany, 1918–1941 , Berlin: Akademie Verlag, ISBN 3-05-003297-9 .
  • 2003 The foreign city. Breslau 1945 , Berlin: Siedler, ISBN 978-3-88680-795-6 .
  • 2006 (Ed.): Dreamland East. German Pictures from Eastern Europe in the 20th Century , Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, ISBN 3-525-36295-1 .
  • 2012 (Ed. With Maurus Reinkowski): Helpless Imperialists. Imperial Failure, Fear, and Radicalization , Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
  • 2013 (Ed. With Katharina Kucher, Sören Urbansky): Silent Revolutions. The new formation of the world since 1989 , Frankfurt a. M .: Campus.

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SURNAME Thum, Gregor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich