Ingrid Wessel

Ingrid Wessel (* as Ingrid Wöller on January 11, 1942 in Bobersberg ) is a German historian and Southeast Asian scholar who primarily deals with the history and culture of Southeast Asia , especially Indonesia .

Ingrid Wessel was delegated to the Lomonossow University in Moscow to study abroad , where she studied Indonesian studies. From 1967 she held a scheduled academic traineeship at the Humboldt University of Berlin (HUB), in 1970 she became a research assistant . In October 1972 the doctorate took place with a thesis on the topic The Indonesian Bourgeoisie. Problems of their development and their position in the national liberation struggle up to 1965 . The reviewers were Kurt Huber , Diethelm Weidemann and Helmut Fessen . The PhD B followed in July 1982 with the thesis on the development of social structures and political leaders in Indonesia and the Philippines. A comparative analysis by Weidemann, Horst Grienig and Klaus Ernst . In February 1983 Wessel became a university lecturer for the New History of Southeast Asia in the Southeast Asia Department of the Asian Studies section of the HUB. In 1988 she became a full professor for the New History of Southeast Asia, from 1994 she taught as a professor for Indonesian at the seminar for Southeast Asian Studies at the HUB and is head of the "Modern Southeast Asia" department.

Fonts

Ingrid Wessel is the author, editor and co-editor of books on the subject of Southeast Asia. She has contributed to anthologies and magazines such as Asia, Africa, Latin America and the International Asia Forum .

• The Indonesian bourgeoisie. Problems of their development and their position in the national liberation struggle up to 1965. Dissertation. Humboldt University of Berlin 1972.
• with Hans Dieter Kubitscheck: History of Indonesia. From ancient times to the present. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1981.
• State and Islam in Indonesia. Institute for Asian and African Studies, Berlin 1996.

Editing

• Nationalism and ethnicity in Southeast Asia. Proceedings of the Conference “Nationalism and Ethnicity in Southeast Asia” at the Humboldt University, Berlin, October 1993. LIT, Münster 1993.
• Indonesia at the end of the 20th century. Abera, Hamburg 1996, ISBN 3-931567-07-9 .
• with Georgia Wimhöfer (Ed.): Violence in Indonesia. Abera, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-934376-16-9 .
• Democratization in Indonesia after the fall of Suharto. Logos, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-8325-0861-9 .

literature

• Lothar Mertens : Lexicon of the GDR historians. Biographies and bibliographies on the historians from the German Democratic Republic. Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-11673-X , pp. 636-637.
• Eva stripeseder, Antje Missbach (ed.): Indonesia - the presence of the past. A festschrift in honor of Ingrid Wessel. Regiospectra, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-940132-00-0 .
• Sindy Herrmann and Frederik Holst (eds.): Society and politics in Southeast Asia. A student publication in honor of Prof. Dr. Ingrid Wessel. Institute for Asian and African Studies, Berlin 2007. (Southeast Asia working papers, No. 31).

Web links

• Literature by and about Ingrid Wessel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Ingrid Wessel on the website of the Humboldt University of Berlin ( Memento from September 22, 2006 in the Internet Archive )