Jürgen Heideking

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Jürgen Heideking (born April 17, 1947 in Hameln , † March 10, 2000 in Brühl ) was a German historian .

Jürgen Heideking attended the Schiller-Gymnasium Hameln and passed the Abitur there in 1966. He studied from 1968 to 1974 at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen and from 1970 to 1971 in Paris at the Sorbonne . He received his doctorate from Gerhard Schulz in Tübingen in 1978 . He completed his habilitation in Tübingen in 1987 after a lengthy research stay as a Feodor Lynen scholarship holder at the University of Wisconsin with a fundamental work on the political culture of the early American republic: The Constitution at the Judgment Seat. History and ratification of the American Constitution 1787–1791. For this he was awarded the Schurman Prize of the University of Heidelberg in 1997.

From 1988 to 1990 Heideking was a research fellow at the German Historical Institute in Washington, DC. In 1990 he took over a chair for North American history in Tübingen. In 1992 he succeeded Erich Angermann as Professor of Modern and Contemporary History and Director of the Institute for Anglo-American History at the University of Cologne , where he taught until his death in spring 2000. His successor was Norbert Finzsch . Heideking was killed in a car accident.

Heideking was one of the leading German USA historians who published over twenty books as an author and editor. His academic interests focused on American history from the 18th to the 20th centuries, international contemporary history, the history of the secret services, and German-American educational history.

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Monographs

  • Constitution, democracy, political culture. American history in a transatlantic perspective (= Mosaic , Vol. 16). WVT, Trier 2002, ISBN 3-88476-508-6 (edited by Heike Bungert , Marc Frey and Christof Mauch ).
  • Introduction to American History. Beck Verlag, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-406-44199-8 (together with Vera Nünning ).
  • History of the USA (= UTB , Vol. 1938). 6th edition Franck Verlag, Tübingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-8252-1938-3 (with CD-ROM sources on “History of the USA” ).
  • The constitution before the judgment seat. History and ratification of the American Constitution 1787–1791 . DeGruyter, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-11-011604-9 (also: habilitation thesis, University of Tübingen, 1987).
  • Areopagus of the diplomats. The Paris Ambassadors Conference of the Main Allied Powers and the Problems of European Politics 1920–1931 (= Historical Studies. Vol. 436). Matthiesen, Husum 1979, ISBN 3-7868-1436-8 (also: dissertation, University of Tübingen, 1978).
  • The chronology of the Periclean age (= income from research. Vol. 36). Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1975, ISBN 3-534-04498-3 (together with Erich Bayer).

Editorships

  • with James A. Henretta: Republicanism and Liberalism in America and the German States, 1750-1850. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2002, ISBN 0-521-80066-8 .
  • The Sixties Revisited. Culture, Society, Politics (= American Studies. Vol. 90). Winter, Heidelberg 2001, ISBN 3-8253-1207-0 (together with Jörg Helbig and Anke Ortlepp).
  • with Ragnhild Fiebig-von Hase: Two ways into modernity. Aspects of German-American Relations 1900–1918. WVT, Trier 1998, ISBN 3-88476-246-X .
  • with Marc Depaepe and Jürgen Herbst: Mutual Influences on Education. Germany and the United States in the Twentieth Century (= Pädagogica historica / NS Bd. 33,1). CSHP, Gent 1997, ISBN 90-800497-4-3 .
  • with Christof Mauch: American Intelligence and the German Resistance to Hitler. A Documentary History. Westview Press, Boulder, Co. 1996, ISBN 0-8133-2687-7 .
  • The American presidents. 42 historical portraits from George Washington to George W. Bush. Beck, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-406-48872-2 .
  • with Henry Geitz and Jürgen Herbst: German Influences on Education in the United States to 1917. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1995, ISBN 0-521-47083-8 .
  • with Christof Mauch: secret service war against Germany. Subversion, Propaganda and Political Planning by the American Secret Service in World War II. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1993, ISBN 3-525-01350-7 .
  • with Christof Mauch: USA and German resistance. American Intelligence Service Analysis and Operations during World War II. Francke Verlag, Tübingen 1993, ISBN 3-7720-2130-1 .

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personal data
SURNAME Heideking, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamelin
DATE OF DEATH March 10, 2000
Place of death Bruehl