Historian Prize of the City of Münster

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The Historikerpreis der Stadt Münster is a science award that was donated by the city of Münster in 1978 on the occasion of the 330th anniversary of the Peace of Westphalia . Since 1981 life's works or "outstanding works of historical science " have been honored with it. The prize is endowed with 12,500 euros and is awarded every five years (as of 2017).

Since 2017, a sponsorship award worth 3,000 euros has also been awarded to young historians .

Award winners

Grand Prize

  • 1981 Gordon A. Craig , doyen of US history and Germany expert
  • 1984 Thomas Nipperdey , for his three-volume German history and his studies on the history of religion
  • 1988 Hans-Peter Schwarz , for his research on the history of the Federal Republic of Germany in the era of Konrad Adenauer
  • 1993 Jacques Le Goff , for his studies on the birth of Europe in the Middle Ages
  • 1998 Konrad Repgen , for researching the history of Germany and Europe from the age of the Reformation to the present
  • 2003 Reinhart Koselleck , for his fundamental studies on the history of concepts and sensitization for the instrumentalizability of political language
  • 2009 Henryk Samsonowicz , for a "European intellectual and outstanding representative of contemporary Polish history," who had "played a major role in the success of the Solidarność movement in the 1980s ".
  • 2017 David Nirenberg , for the research on his work “Anti-Judaism. A History of Western Thought "

Sponsorship award

literature

  • Berthold Tillmann (Hrsg.): Historikerpreis der Stadt Münster. The award winners and laudators from 1981 to 2003 . Lit-Verlag, Münster 2004, ISBN 978-3-8258-8025-5

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ City of Münster: Press and Information Office - Press releases. In: muenster.de. March 24, 2017. Retrieved May 16, 2017 .