Hajo Holborn

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Hajo Holborn (born May 18, 1902 in Berlin , † June 20, 1969 in Bonn ) was a German-American modern historian .

Life

Holborn was the son of the physicist Ludwig Holborn . He attended the Kaiserin Augusta Gymnasium in Berlin-Charlottenburg (Abitur 1920) and studied history with Friedrich Meinecke at the University of Berlin and was awarded a doctorate in 1924 with a study on Germany and Turkey between 1878 and 1890. phil. PhD . In 1926 he completed his habilitation with a thesis on Ulrich von Hutten at the University of Heidelberg and taught there as a private lecturer. From 1931 he was a professor of history at the German University of Politics in Berlin. In 1933 he was dismissed for political reasons and because of his Jewish wife.

Holborn emigrated to the USA via Great Britain in 1934. In 1934 he became a visiting professor of German history at Yale University . From 1936 to 1942 he taught at Tufts University , Massachusetts . During the Second World War he was naturalized and worked for the Office of Strategic Services . From the end of the war until his death, he taught as a professor at Yale University. His main work was a three-volume history of Germany in modern times.

In 1941 Holborn was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

In 1955, Holborn was visiting professor at the University of Vienna . In 1967 he became the first president of the American Historical Association who was not born in the United States. Among his many well-known students are Otto Plant and Peter Gay .

His daughter, Hanna Holborn Gray , also a historian, was president of both Yale University and the University of Chicago .

Fonts (selection)

  • Bismarck's European Policy in the Early Seventies and the Radowitz Mission . German Publishing Society for Politics and History, Berlin 1925.
  • Germany and Turkey 1878–1890. German Publishing Society for Politics and History, Berlin 1926.
  • Ulrich von Hutten . Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1929.
  • War debt and reparations at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 . BG Teubner, Leipzig / Berlin 1932.
  • Weimar constitution and freedom of science (= New Germany ). Meiner, Leipzig 1933.
  • Ulrich von Hutten and the German Reformation. Yale University Press, New Haven 1937.
  • American military government. Its Organization and Policies. Infantry Journal Press, Washington 1947.
  • The collapse of the European state system. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1954.
  • German history in modern times. 3 volumes, Oldenbourg, Munich 1969–1971.
  • The Prusso-German School. Moltke and the rise of the General Staff. In: Peter Paret (Ed.): Makers of Modern Strategy. From Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age. Princeton University Press, Princeton 1986.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Holborn's handwritten curriculum vitae in Gerhard A. Ritter: Friedrich Meinecke. Academic teacher and emigrated pupil , Oldenbourg, Munich 2006, p. 234.
  2. ^ Members of the American Academy. Listed by election year, 1900-1949 ( PDF ). Retrieved September 27, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Holborn, Hajo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American contemporary historian of German origin
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 20th June 1969
Place of death Bonn