Hermann Giliomee

Hermann Buhr Giliomee (born  April 4, 1938 in Sterkstroom , Cape Province ) is a South African historian , political scientist , author and columnist who is considered one of the most renowned South African social scientists of the present. From 1983 to 2002 he was Professor of Political Science at the University of Cape Town and has since been Associate Professor of History at the University of Stellenbosch .

Life

Hermann Giliomee was born in Sterkstroom in 1938 and studied history at the University of Stellenbosch from 1956 to 1961, where he also received his doctorate in 1971 . After completing his studies, he initially worked for the South African Foreign Ministry in 1963/1964 , from 1967 to 1982 he then worked as a lecturer at the University of Stellenbosch. In 1973 and 1977/1978 he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University and in 1982/1983 as a Jan Smuts Fellow at the University of Cambridge . From 1983 to 2002 he was Professor of Political Science at the University of Cape Town, since then he has been an Associate Professor of History at the University of Stellenbosch. From 1995 to 1997 he served as President of the South African Institute of Race Relations .

Hermann Giliomee, who is considered politically liberal and who appeared as a critic of apartheid before 1990 , co-founded the Afrikaans-language monthly magazine Die Suid-Afrikaan in 1984 . He also published regularly in various South African daily newspapers, such as the Cape Times and the Rand Daily Mail, in the 1980s and 1990s . Since then he has written a political column for the newspapers Die Burger , Beeld and Volksblad . He is the author of a number of academic publications and several books on the history and politics of South Africa and the relationship between the various ethnic groups in the country. His most important works are a historical treatise on the Boers entitled "The Afrikaners - Biography of a People", which has been described by various critics as his magnum opus , and the book "New History of South Africa" , which he wrote together with Bernard Mbenga .

Hermann Giliomee lives in Stellenbosch. He has been married since 1965 and has two daughters.

Works (selection)

• Ethnic Power Mobilized: Can South Africa Change? New Haven 1979 (as co-author)
• The Parting of the Ways: South African Politics 1976–1982. Cape Town 1982
• Up Against the Fences: Poverty, Passes, and Privilege in South Africa. New York 1985 (as co-author)
• Negotiating South Africa's Future. New York 1989
• From apartheid to nation-building. Cape Town and New York 1990 (as co-author)
• The Awkward Embrace: One-Party Domination and Democracy. Amsterdam 1999 (as co-author)
• The Afrikaners - Biography of a People. Cape Town 2003
• New History of South Africa. Cape Town 2007 (as co-author)

literature

• Giliomee, Hermann Buhr. In: The International Who's Who 2004. 67th edition. Taylor & Francis, London 2003, ISBN 1-85-743217-7 , p. 608.
• Hermann Giliomee. In: Rosemarie Breuer, Jill Adams: Stellenbosch Writers: Stellenbosch Authors of Books. Stellenbosch Writers Publishers, Stellenbosch 2005, ISBN 0-62-032948-3 , p. 105.
• Heribert Adam: 'An Historian of Afrikaner Origin, but not an Afrikaner Historian': Hermann Giliomee at 70. In: South African Historical Journal. 60 (4) / 2008. Southern African Historical Society, pp. 535-552, ISSN  0258-2473

Web links

• Stellenbosch Writers - Hermann Giliomee (English and Afrikaans, with picture)