Hansjörg Siegenthaler

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Hansjörg Siegenthaler (born March 23, 1933 in Interlaken ) is a Swiss economic historian .

Hansjörg Siegenthaler was born as the son of the chef Alfred Siegenthaler. He attended secondary school in Interlaken, the Realgymnasium and the Oberseminar in Zurich. Afterwards he was a primary school teacher for a short time before studying economic history, theoretical social economics and modern history at the University of Zurich from 1955 to 1959 . He received his doctorate in 1961 under Max Silberschmidt . From 1964 to 1966 he was a visiting scholar at Harvard University . In 1968 he completed his habilitation at the University of Zurich on the importance of monopolies in the American textile industry in the mid-19th century. After a visiting professorship at the University of Münster , Siegenthaler taught from 1970 as an assistant professor, from 1971 as an associate professor and from 1976 as a full professor for modern economic history and special areas of economics at the University of Zurich. In 1998 he retired. In 1998/99 he was a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin . In 2004 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Lucerne .

His research areas include the connections between economic development and socio-cultural change; he is considered a pioneer in the integration of economic and cultural history . Siegenthaler has also dealt with economic crisis phenomena, among other things with various crisis periods in the history of Switzerland . In the 1970s and 1980s, he wrote historical overview articles about Switzerland. Siegenthaler lives in Sent in the Lower Engadine .

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • Trust in rules, prosperity and crises. The unevenness of economic and social development as a result of individual action and social learning. Mohr, Tübingen 1993, ISBN 3-16-146051-0 .
  • The Weight of Monopolistic Elements in the American Textile Industry (1840–1880). Fashionable product variation under the guidance of the commission house. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-02496-6 (habilitation thesis, University of Zurich).
  • The painting trade in old Zurich. Swiss Association of Painters and Plasterers, Zurich 1963 (dissertation, University of Zurich, 1961).

Editorships

  • Rationality in the process of cultural evolution. Rational assumptions as a condition of the possibility of substantial rationality of action. Tübingen 2005, ISBN 3-16-148519-X .
  • Science and welfare. Modern science and its supporters in the formation of the Swiss welfare state during the second half of the 19th century. Zurich 1997, ISBN 3-905312-50-6 .

literature

  • Andreas Ernst , Thomas Gerlach, Patrick Halbeisen, Bettina Heintz and Margrit Müller (eds.): Continuity and Crisis. Social change as a learning process. Festschrift for Hansjörg Siegenthaler. Chronos-Verlag, Zurich 1994, ISBN 3-905311-24-0 .

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Remarks

  1. ^ Honorary doctorates - University of Lucerne
  2. ↑ Particularly influential: Hansjörg Siegenthaler: History and Economy after the Culturalist Turnaround. In: History and Society . Volume 25, Issue 2, April 1999, pp. 276-301 ( JSTOR 40185878 at JSTOR ).
  3. ^ Hansjörg Siegenthaler: Crises and their settlement in the Swiss federal state. In: Switzerland: yesterday, today, tomorrow (= Orientation. No. 99). Schweizerische Volksbank, Bern 1991, pp. 35–44; Ders .: consensus, expectations and determination. Experience of Switzerland in overcoming the Great Depression a hundred years ago. In: Swiss Journal for Economics and Statistics. Volume 119 (1983), Issue 3, pp. 213-235 ( online ); ders .: Decision horizons in social change. In: Swiss History Journal. Vol. 33 (1983), pp. 414-431.
  4. ^ Hansjörg Siegenthaler: Switzerland 1850–1914. In: Wolfram Fischer (Ed.): Handbook of European Economic and Social History, Vol. 5, Stuttgart 1985, pp. 443–473
personal data
SURNAME Siegenthaler, Hansjörg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss economic historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Interlaken