Jörn Leonhard

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Jörn Leonhard at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2018

Jörn Leonhard (born May 27, 1967 in Birkenfeld / Nahe ) is a German modern historian. Since 2006 he has been Professor of Modern and Contemporary History of Western Europe at the Historical Institute of the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg . He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in London and the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences . He has already received several important research awards for his research.

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Leonhard studied history, political science and German studies at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and the University of Oxford from 1987 to 1994 as a scholarship holder of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes . He completed his studies in Oxford in 1992 with a Master of Studies in Modern History and in 1994 with a Magister Artium in Heidelberg. He then received a doctoral scholarship from the German Academic Scholarship Foundation and in 1998 he worked with Volker Sellin in Heidelberg with a dissertation on Liberalism. On the historical semantics of a European interpretation model for Dr. phil. ( summa cum laude ) doctorate.

From 1998 to 2003, Leonhard was a Fellow and Tutor in Modern History at Wadham College / Modern History Faculty at the University of Oxford and a specialist lecturer at the DAAD for Modern German and European History, before receiving a one-year scholarship from the Munich Historical College . In 2004 he completed his habilitation in Heidelberg on the subject of bellicism and nation. Interpretation of war and determination of nations in Europe and the United States 1750-1914 and received the Venia Legendi for Modern History.

Leonhard then held the Friedrich Schiller University Lecturer (C-2) for European History at the Historical Institute of the University of Jena until 2006 . Since 2006 he has been a professor and holder of the chair for modern and recent history of Western Europe at the history seminar of the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg. From 2007 to 2012, he and Ulrich Herbert directed the School of History at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS). From 2012 to 2013 he was a research professor at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University .

Leonhard is on the scientific advisory board of several research institutions and foundations, including the German Historical Institute in Paris , the Federal President Theodor Heuss House Foundation and the France Center of the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, as well as on the editorial board of various renowned specialist journals. He is also a liaison professor for the German National Academic Foundation. Since June 2018 he has also been teaching at the Foreign Service Academy in Berlin as part of the attaché training for the higher foreign service.

In his research, Leonhard deals with the history of Europe and the world since the 18th century from a comparative perspective. The focus is on the history of liberalism and nationalism, research into multiethnic empires and the history of war and peace. Leonhard's story of the First World War , published in 2014 under the title “Die Büchse der Pandora”, is, according to Michael Epkenhans, “the best book that has ever come onto the market.” Hans-Ulrich Wehler also described it as “the most important book about the first World War ”, it was the“ beginning of a new era in the history of the world war ”.

In 2015 he was reappointed a one-year scholarship from the Munich Historical College. In the academic year 2016/17 Leonhard worked there on his new monograph, which was published in October 2018 under the title "The overwhelmed peace. Versailles and the world 1918–1923".

Awards

Memberships / working groups

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • Liberalism. On the historical semantics of a European pattern of interpretation (= publications by the German Historical Institute, London . Volume 50). Oldenbourg, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-486-56533-8 .
  • Bellicism and Nation. Interpretation of war and nation determination in Europe and the United States 1750–1914 (= systems of order . Volume 25). Oldenbourg, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-486-58516-2 .
  • With Ulrike von Hirschhausen : Empires and nation states in the 19th century (= FRIAS red series . Volume 1). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-525-32300-7 .
  • Pandora's Box. History of the First World War . CH Beck, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-406-66191-4 (5th edition, 2014).
  • The overwhelmed peace. Versailles and the world 1918–1923. CH Beck, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-406-72506-7 .

Editorships

  • With Ulrike von Hirschhausen : Nationalisms in Europe. Western and Eastern Europe in comparison . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-89244-479-X .
  • With Lothar Funk: Ten Years of German Reunification. Transfer, Transformation, Incorporation? Birmingham University Press, Birmingham 2002, ISBN 1-902459-12-1 .
  • With Ulrike von Hirschhausen: Multi-Ethnic Empires and the Military: Conscription in Europe between Integration and Disintegration, 1860-1918 (Journal of Modern European History 5/2) . CH Beck, Munich 2007.
  • With Rolf G. Renner: Colonial Pasts - (Post-) Imperial Present. Lecture series as part of the anniversary "550 years of Albert-Ludwigs-Universität", summer semester 2007 and winter semester 2007/08 in cooperation with the history seminar and the Romance seminar of the university (= studies of the France Center of the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg . Volume 19). Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-8305-1736-8 .
  • With Ulrike von Hirschhausen: Comparing Empires. Encounters and Transfers in the Long Nineteenth Century (= publication series of the FRIAS School of History . Volume 1). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-525-31040-3 .
  • With Christian Wieland: What Makes the Nobility Noble? Comparative Perspectives from the Sixteenth to Twentieth Century (= publication series of the FRIAS School of History . Volume 2). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-525-31041-0 .
  • With Ute Daniel , Martin Löffelholz : The military and the media in the 20th century (special issue of the military history journal, Vol 70/1) . Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Potsdam 2011.
  • With Kurt Hochstuhl, Christoph Strauss: People in the war 1914–1918 on the Upper Rhine. Colloquium for the exhibition of the same name / Vivre en temps de guerre des deux côtes du Rhin 1914–1918 ; German French. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 978-3-17-026341-3 .
  • With Anselm Doering-Manteuffel : Liberalism in the 20th Century . Steiner-Verlag, Wiesbaden 2015, ISBN 978-3-515-11072-3 .
  • Comparison and Interdependence: Germany and France in the 20th Century . Erich Schmidt, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-503-13790-9 .
  • With Willibald Steinmetz : Semantics of Work: Diachrones and Comparative Perspectives (= Industrial World . Volume 91). Böhlau, Cologne 2016, ISBN 978-3-412-50280-5 .

literature

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ deutschlandradiokultur.de
  2. ↑ Hans-Ulrich Wehler: Beginning of a new epoch in the history of the world war . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , May 6, 2014.
  3. ↑ Prize winners of the Wolf Erich Kellner Prize. (PDF) Wolf-Erich-Kellner-Gedächtnisstiftung, accessed on December 9, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Leonhard, Jörn
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Birkenfeld (Nahe)