Jan-Georg German

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Jan-Georg Deutsch (born September 5, 1956 in Marburg , † December 22, 2016 in Oxford ) was a German historian who worked in Oxford and dealt with colonial history and the history of Africa.

Jan-Georg Deutsch went to high school in Burgwedel with the Abitur in 1977. He received his doctorate in 1990 at the London School of Oriental and African Studies with the dissertation Educating the middleman . In the 1990s he was at what is now the Leibniz Center for the Modern Orient in Berlin. He was an Associate Professor in Commonwealth History and a Fellow of St Cross College at Oxford University . He was particularly concerned with the colonial history of German East Africa and Tanzania, for example he wrote a monograph on the tolerance of slavery in German East Africa (tolerated by the colonial government so as not to offend local elites). He was a representative of history from below and conducted research in Zanzibar (as part of the entire Indian Ocean) and Nigeria, among others.

He organized protests when his friend, the historian from Zanzibar and expert on Zanzibar, Abdul Sherriff (* 1939), lost his professorship in Dar es Salaam in Tanzania in 2005 for political reasons .

Fonts

  • Educating the middlemen: Political and economic history of statutory cocoa marketing in Nigeria, 1936–1947, Verlag Das Arabische Buch 1995
  • From the district administrator to the multi-party system - transformations of political rule in colonial and post-colonial Tanzania, in: Ulrich van Heyden, Achim von Oppen (eds.), Colonial Past and New Awakening, African Studies 7, Münster 1996, pp. 21–47
  • with others: African-related bequests in the libraries and archives of the federal states of Berlin, Brandenburg and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Verlag Das Arabische Buch 1997
  • with Albert Wirz (ed.): History in Africa. Introduction to Problems and Debates, Verlag Das Arabisches Buch 1997
  • The 'Freeing' of slaves in German East Africa: The statistical record, 1890-1914, Slavery and Abolition, Volume 19, 1998, pp. 109-132
  • Periodizations in African History, Wiener Zeitschrift zur Geschichte der Neuzeit, Volume 1, 2001, pp. 105–108.
  • with Peter Probst, Heike Schmidt (eds.): African modernities: entangled meanings in current debate, Heinemann 2002
  • Absence of Evidence is no Proof? Slave Resistance under German Colonial Rule in East Africa, in: Klaas van Walraven (Ed.), Rethinking Resistance. Revolt and Violence in African History, Leiden: Brill 2002, pp. 170-187.
  • Zanzibar, in: Paul Tiyambe Zeleza, Dickson Eyoh (Eds.), Encyclopaedia of Twentieth-Century African History, London 2002.
  • with Brigitte Reinwald (ed.): Space on the Move: transformations of the Indian Ocean seascape in the nineteenth and twentieth century, Klaus Schwarz Verlag 2002
    • in German: The Indian Ocean and a very small place in Zanzibar
  • Celebrating power in everyday life: the administration of law and the public sphere in colonial Tanzania, 1890-1914, Journal of African Cultural Studies, Volume 15, 2002, pp. 93-103
  • Emancipation without abolition in German East Africa, c. 1884-1914, James Currie Publishers 2006

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dates of birth Vademecum of Historical Sciences, Steiner 1998
  2. ^ Protest letter from Jan-Georg Deutsch 2005 on the occasion of Sherriff's dismissal
personal data
SURNAME German, Jan-Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH 5th September 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Marburg
DATE OF DEATH December 22, 2016
Place of death Oxford