Jörg Fisch

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Jörg Fisch (born April 28, 1947 in St. Gallen ) is a Swiss historian .

Life

Jörg Fisch studied history and philosophy at the universities of Zurich , Basel , Vienna , Münster and Heidelberg . In 1976 he did his doctorate in Heidelberg with Reinhart Koselleck . From 1976 to 1986 he was a research assistant at the Faculty of History at Bielefeld University , where he completed his habilitation in 1983. Professorships in history at the universities of Bielefeld and Mainz followed . From 1987 until his retirement in 2012 he was a full professor of general modern history at the University of Zurich , teaching in particular non-European history and European contemporary history. In 1980/81, Fisch was a scholarship holder at the School of Oriental and African Studies (London), 1986 Directeur d'études associé at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (Paris), 1999/2000 visiting professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Tokyo , 2005 Visiting Fellow at the National Europe Institute of the Australian National University (Canberra) and 2007/08 research fellow at the Historical College in Munich . He has been a member of the Academia Europaea since 2010 .

Fisch's work focuses on the history of international law and international relations, the world wars and National Socialism, problems of universal history and the history of human rights. Fisch is co-editor of the Neue Fischer Weltgeschichte .

Fonts

Books

  • War and Peace in the Peace Treaty. A universal historical study of the foundations and formal elements of the peace treaty (= language and history. Vol. 3). Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1979, ISBN 3-12-912410-1 .
  • Cheap lives and dear limbs. The British transformation of the Bengal criminal law 1769-1817 (= contributions to research on South Asia. Vol. 79). Steiner, Wiesbaden 1983, ISBN 3-515-04012-9 .
  • European expansion and international law. The disputes about the status of the overseas territories from the 15th century to the present (= contributions to colonial and overseas history. Vol. 26). Steiner, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-515-04056-0 (Also: Bielefeld, University, habilitation paper).
  • Holland's fame in Asia. François Valentyn's vision of the Dutch empire in the 18th century (= contributions to colonial and overseas history. Vol. 34). Steiner, Stuttgart 1986, ISBN 3-515-04593-7 .
  • History of South Africa (= dtv 4550). Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-423-04550-7 (2nd edition, ibid 1991).
  • Reparations after World War II. Beck, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-406-35984-1 .
  • Deadly rituals. Indian widow burning and other forms of following into the dead. Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1998, ISBN 3-593-36096-9 .
  • Europe between growth and equality. 1850–1914 (= Handbook of the History of Europe . Vol. 8 = UTB 2290). Ulmer, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-8001-2763-6 .
  • The right of peoples to self-determination. The domestication of an illusion. Beck, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-406-59858-6 .
  • (Ed.) The distribution of the world. Self-determination and the right of peoples to self-determination. Oldenbourg, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-486-70384-9 .

Articles (selection)

  • The fairytale orient. The revaluation of a tradition from Marco Polo to Macaulay. In: Saeculum . Vol. 35, No. 3/4, 1984, pp. 246-266.
  • A Pamphlet War on Christian Missions in India 1807-1809. In: Journal of Asian History. Vol. 19, No. 1, 1985, ISSN  0021-910X , pp. 22-70.
  • A Solitary Vindicator of the Hindus. The Life and Writings of General Charles Stuart (1757 / 58-1828). In: Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. NS, Vol. 117, No. 1, 1985, ISSN  1356-1863 , pp. 35-57, doi : 10.1017 / S0035869X00154930 .
  • Causality and physiognomy. Cyclical history models from Ibn Haldun and Oswald Spengler. In: Archives for cultural history . Vol. 67, 1985, pp. 263-309.
  • Law as a means and as an end. Some remarks on the function of European and non-European law in the process of European expansion. In: Wolfgang J. Mommsen , Jaap A. de Moor (Eds.): European Expansion and Law. The encounter of European and indigenous law in 19th-and 20th-Century Africa and Asia. Berg, Oxford 1992, ISBN 0-85496-762-1 , pp. 15-38.
  • Africa as terra nullius: The Berlin Conference and International Law. In: Stig Förster , Wolfgang J. Mommsen, Ronald Robinson (Eds.): Bismarck, Europe and Africa. The Berlin Africa Conference 1884–1885 and the onset of partition. Oxford University Press, Oxford et al. 1988, ISBN 0-19-920500-0 , pp. 347-375.
  • Belief in the hereafter, inequality and death. On some aspects of following into the dead. In: Saeculum. Vol. 44, 1993, pp. 165-199.
  • Dying for the Dead: Sati in Universal Context. In: Journal of World History. Vol. 16, No. 3, 2005, ISSN  1045-6007 , pp. 293-325, doi : 10.1353 / jwh.2006.0005 .
  • Adolf Hitler and the right of peoples to self-determination. In: Historical magazine . Vol. 290, No. 1, 2010, pp. 93-118, doi : 10.1524 / hzhz.2010.0003 .
  • Peace making and keeping peace. In: Pim den Boer et al. (Ed.): European places of remembrance. Volume 1: Myths and basic concepts of the European self-image. Oldenbourg, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-486-70418-1 , pp. 285-295.

Lexicon article (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Curriculum vitae Prof. Dr. Jörg Fisch , University of Zurich website, accessed on July 29, 2014.
  2. ↑ Professor Dr. Jörg Fisch , website of the Historisches Kolleg, accessed on July 29, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Fish, Jörg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Gallen