Jakob Tanner (historian)

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Jakob Tanner (born July 18, 1950 in Root ) is a Swiss historian .

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Jakob Tanner studied history and German at the University of Zurich . From 1982 he worked as a research assistant and lecturer at the Universities of Basel , Freiburg , Bern and Zurich. In 1986 he was at the University of Zurich with the work "federal budget, currency and war economy" doctorate . He then completed several stays abroad, including at the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, at the London School of Economics and Political Science and at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. In 1996/1997 he worked as a substitute professor at Bielefeld University .

In 1997 Jakob Tanner was appointed professor for general and Swiss history of recent and recent times at the Research Center for Social and Economic History and the History Department of the University of Zurich. His work focuses on economic and financial history, science , medicine and the history of the body . In 2001/2002 he was a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin , and since October 2004 he has been a fellow at the Collegium Helveticum . He was also a member of the Bergier Commission .

Jakob Tanner is co-editor of the journals Historische Anthropologie , Zeitschrift für Unternehmensgeschichte and Gesnerus . From 2004 to 2016 he was President of the Swiss Social Archives in Zurich, is a board member of the Swiss Society for Economic and Social History and a member of the advisory board of the research project “History of the German Research Foundation ”. Tanner is a member of the Center for the History of Knowledge . In 2015 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Lucerne .

Fonts

  • with Felix Müller, Hans Schäppi: Crisis - Coincidence or Consequence of Capitalism? Switzerland and the current economic crisis. An introduction from a Marxist point of view. Limmat, Zurich 1976, ISBN 3-85791-005-4 .
  • Federal budget, currency and war economy. Dissertation. University of Zurich 1985. Limmat, Zurich 1986, ISBN 3-85791-100-X .
  • Financial problems in Switzerland in the Second World War and their consequences for economic development after 1945. In: Dietmar Petzina (Hrsg.): Problems of the financial history of the 19th and 20th centuries. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-428-06698-7 , pp. 77-98.
  • Basic lines of Swiss foreign policy. Swiss Peace Foundation , Bern 1993, ISBN 3-908230-20-9 .
  • with Youssef Cassis (ed.): Banks and Credit in Switzerland / Banques et credit en Suisse 1850–1930. Chronos, Zurich 1993, ISBN 3-905311-15-1 .
  • with René Renggli: The drug problem. History, experiences, therapy concepts. Springer, Berlin a. a. 1994, ISBN 3-540-57089-6 .
  • Property rights, innovation dynamics and market power. On the importance of Swiss patent and trademark protection for the development of the chemical-pharmaceutical industry (1907–1928). In: Andreas Ernst , Erich Wigger (Ed.): The new Switzerland? A society between integration and polarization (1910–1930). Chronos, Zurich 1996, ISBN 3-905311-82-8 , pp. 273-303.
  • The international financial relations of Switzerland between 1931 and 1950. In: Swiss journal for history . Volume 47, No. 4. Schwabe, Basel 1997, ISSN  0036-7834 , pp. 492-519 ( doi: 10.5169 / seals-81201 ).
  • (Ed.): History of the consumer society. Markets, culture and identity (15th – 20th centuries). Chronos, Zurich 1998, ISBN 3-905312-51-4 .
  • «Banking Power». Political bogeyman, anti-Semitic stereotype or analytical category? In: Journal of Company History. Volume 43, No. 1. Beck, Munich 1998, ISSN  0342-2852 pp. 19-34.
  • Collaboration on Manfred Hettling et al .: A Brief History of Switzerland. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 3-518-12079-4 .
  • Factory meal. Nutritional science, industrial work and national nutrition in Switzerland 1890–1950. Habilitation thesis. University of Zurich. Chronos, Zurich 1999, ISBN 3-905312-01-8 .
  • How do people have experiences? Cultural Studies Research College of the University of Konstanz, Konstanz 2000.
  • with Sigrid Weigel (Ed.): Memory, Money and Law. On dealing with the past of the Second World War. vdf, Zurich 2002, ISBN 3-7281-2658-6 .
  • Introductory historical anthropology. Junius, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-88506-601-7 .
  • History of Switzerland in the 20th century. Beck, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-406-68365-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Historical Anthropology" on H-Soz-u-Kult
  2. ^ "Journal for Company History" on H-Soz-u-Kult
  3. ^ "Gesnerus" on H-Soz-u-Kult
  4. ↑ Honorary doctorates on the website of the University of Lucerne, November 5, 2015


personal data
SURNAME Tanner, Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Root