Hans-Jürgen Grabbe

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Hans-Jürgen Grabbe (born September 6, 1947 in Detmold ) is a German historian and cultural scientist. As founding director, Grabbe headed the Center for USA Studies at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg . The main focus of work is transatlantic migration and the history of German-American relations. Grabbe has also been working intensively on the history of Wittenberg since 2016.

Scientific career

Hans-Jürgen Grabbe studied history and English philology at the University of Hamburg and was awarded a doctorate there in 1982 with a thesis on the relationship between the CDU / CSU and the SPD and the United States of America. phil. PhD . In 1990 he completed his habilitation, also in Hamburg, with a socio-historical study of European immigration to the USA during the so-called Early National Period. Associated with this was the granting of the Venia legendi for the subject of modern history.

From 1977 to 1988 Grabbe belonged to the history department of the University of Hamburg as a research assistant and university assistant. 1990/91 he represented the Chair of British and American Studies at the University of Kassel , then came in the summer of 1991 as a DAAD -Dozent to the Institute of History of the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg and represented there 1991/92 the founding Chair of Newer Story . In 1992 he accepted a professorship for the history of the United States of America at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg . From 1994 to 2012 Grabbe held the chair for Anglo-American cultural studies in Halle.

Scientific functions

Hans-Jürgen Grabbe was President of the European Association for American Studies (2008–2011). From 2004 to 2008 he was treasurer of the EAAS. From 1996 to 1999 he was President of the German Society for American Studies Treasurer (1993–1997; 2002–2003) and Managing Director (2003–2005). As founding director, Grabbe built the Center for USA Studies at the Leucorea Foundation in Wittenberg (1995–1999) and was again director of this facility from 2006 to 2012.

Grabbe is the editor of the American Studies Journal (1996–1999 and since 2006). From 2003 to 2019 he was one of the editors of the journal Amerikastudien / American Studies (Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg) and has been a member of the Advisory Board since 2020. Since 1994 he has been responsible for the USA Studies series at Franz Steiner Verlag (Stuttgart). In 2006, Grabbe founded the European Views of the United States series (Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg).

Scholarships and visiting professorships

In 1983/84 Hans-Jürgen Grabbe worked as a Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania . He was a scholarship holder of the German Research Foundation , visiting scholar at Stanford University (2005), Fellow at the Liguria Study Center for the Arts and Humanities of the Bogliasco Foundation (2006) and visiting professor at the University of Vienna (2010).

Honors

On February 15, 2008 Hans-Jürgen Grabbe received the Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany . With this award, Federal President Köhler honored u. a. his commitment to the promotion of scientific relations at national and European level as well as German-American relations and the merits in connection with the establishment of the Center for USA Studies.

At the 2013 general meeting of the German Society for American Studies, Hans-Jürgen Grabbe was awarded honorary membership on the occasion of the DGfA's 60th anniversary due to his scientific achievements and his commitment to American studies in Germany and beyond. In October 2013 he also received a "Certificate of Appreciation" from the United States Department of State for "outstanding services in promoting mutual understanding between Germany and the USA through teaching, research and public relations".

On Grabbe's 70th birthday, an international symposium on "Women and US Politics" took place in Wittenberg from 25 to 27 September 2017.

Important publications

  • Union parties, social democracy and the United States of America 1945-1966 . Droste, Düsseldorf 1983, ISBN 3-7700-5118-1 (Contributions to the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 71; extended version of the dissertation from 1977)
  • Before the great flood. European Migration to the United States of America 1783-1820 . Steiner, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-515-07814-2 (USA studies. Volume 10)
  • Colonial Encounters. Essays in Early American History and Culture . Winter, Heidelberg 2003, ISBN 3-8253-1535-5 (American Studies. A Monograph Series. Volume 109)
  • together with Sabine Schindler: The Merits of Memory. Concepts, contexts, debates . Winter, Heidelberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-8253-5315-5 (American Studies. A Monograph Series. Volume 143)
  • Halle Pietism, Colonial North America, and the Young United States . Steiner, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-515-08767-4 (USA studies. Volume 15)
  • Slandered, persecuted, expelled. The Wittenberg doctor Paul Bosse and his family 1900-1949 . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 2019, ISBN 978-3-96311-189-1

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Homepage of the Center for USA Studies of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
  2. ^ Homepage of the Chair for Anglo-American Cultural Studies
  3. ^ Homepage of the European Association for American Studies
  4. ^ Homepage of the German Society for American Studies
  5. ↑ On the history of the American Studies Journal
  6. ^ Carsten Hummel, Julia Nitz, Axel Schäfer: Conference homepage. In: Wittenberg Symposium. Obama Center of the University of Mainz; Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, December 27, 2017, accessed on December 27, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Grabbe, Hans-Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and cultural scientist
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Detmold