Hermann W. von der Dunk

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Hermann W. von der Dunk in 2008.

Hermann Walther von der Dunk (born October 9, 1928 in Bonn ; † August 22, 2018 in Bilthoven ) was a Dutch historian and cultural scientist of German origin. He was Professor Emeritus of Contemporary History at the University of Utrecht and the University of Nijmegen .

Life

Von der Dunk was a son of Heinrich M. von der Dunk and Ilse Loeb. His father couldn't find a job in National Socialist Germany because he was married to a Jewish woman. The family fled to the Netherlands in 1937 , where the father got a job as a teacher at the Werkplaats Kindergemeenschap in Bilthoven under the direction of the reform pedagogue Kees Boeke . Von der Dunk Junior studied history with the internationally known historian Pieter Geyl and then conducted research at the Institute for European History in Mainz . In 1966 he received his doctorate in Utrecht with the dissertation "The German Vormärz and Belgium, 1830-1848". A year later he was appointed professor of history at the same university. In 1990 he retired .

Von der Dunk published numerous monographs and specialist articles in newspapers and national and international journals. He was the author of numerous books and wrote regularly for daily and weekly newspapers. In 1995 he received the Goethe Medal .

Von der Dunk is the father of the cultural historian Thomas von der Dunk and the telecommunications lawyer Frans von der Dunk . He died in Bilthoven at the age of 89.

Books (selection)

  • Cultural history of the 20th century , 2 volumes. Translated from the Dutch by Andreas Ecke , Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 2004, ISBN 978-3421056047
  • German-Dutch Neighborhood: Four Contributions to Political Culture , Hermann W. von der Dunk and Horst Lademacher, Waxmann, 1999, ISBN 978-3893257973 .
  • Walther Rathenau 1867–1922 , Akademische Verlagsanstalt (Ava), Leipzig, 1999, ISBN 978-3931982126 .
  • Germany and the Netherlands: between the desire for harmony and the need for demarcation , ed. by Günther Rüther, Bonn / Köllen, 1997, magazine on political education; Born 34.1.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hermann W. von der Dunk. In: Pearl Divers . Retrieved August 24, 2018 .
  2. ^ "A kind of anti-Semitism": The historian von der Dunk on Holland's image of Germany. In: Der Spiegel 14/1993. April 5, 1993, p. 161 , accessed on August 24, 2018 (interview).
  3. ^ Friedrich Wilhelm Graf : In the prefabricated building - Hermann W. von der Dunks two-dimensional cultural history. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 283/2004. December 3, 2004, p. 37 , accessed on August 24, 2018 (book review).
  4. ↑ Historicus Hermann von der Dunk was geen archiefrat, maar meeslepend sales. In: NOS.nl . August 23, 2018, accessed August 24, 2018 (Dutch).
personal data
SURNAME Dunk, Hermann W. von der
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dunk, Hermann Walther from the
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn
DATE OF DEATH 22nd August 2018
Place of death Bilthoven