Joan Campbell

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Joan Campbell (born June 22, 1929 in Berlin as Johanna Stolper ; † March 3, 2013 in Toronto ) was a German - American historian with a focus on recent European history.

life and work

Johanna Stolper was born in Berlin in 1929 as the daughter of business journalist, economist, publisher and liberal politician Gustav Stolper and his wife, the economist and journalist Toni Stolper . Her half-brother was the economist Wolfgang F. Stolper .

She grew up in Berlin before her family emigrated to the United States in 1933 . Stolper then spent her childhood and youth in Connecticut and attended a Quaker boarding school in Pennsylvania . She graduated with a BA from Radcliffe College and then studied at Oxford, where she received her second degree. In Oxford, Johanna Stolper met her future husband Dugal Campbell , a son of Scottish immigrants. In 1954, Johanna Stolper and Dugal Campbell, who now lived in New York , married, and Johanna took the name Joan Campbell from then on. The marriage had four children. A short time after the marriage, the couple moved to London and moved to New Zealand in 1957 , before moving to Kingston, Ontario in 1960 .

Campbell received her PhD from Queen's University and then began her academic career at the same college, which she then continued at the University of Toronto , the University of Western Ontario and Ryerson University . Her most important publications include a detailed study of the Deutscher Werkbund , which she published in 1978. Campbell was also involved in adult education and social housing. She was a member of the Academy for Lifelong Learning and an active supporter of the St. Lawrence Neighborhood Association in Toronto.

Publications (selection)

  • The German Werkbund. The Politics of Reform in the Applied Arts. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 1978, ISBN 0-691-05250-6 .
  • Joy in Work, German Work. The National Debate, 1800-1945. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 1989, ISBN 0-691-05569-6 .
  • The German Werkbund. 1907-1934. (Translated from English by Toni Stolper ). Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-12-911980-9 (licensed edition. (= Dtv 4492). Klett-Cotta in Deutsches Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-423-04492-6 ).
  • as editor: European Labor Unions. Greenwood Press, Westport CT et al. 1992, ISBN 0-313-26371-X .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andreas W. Daum, Hartmut Lehmann, James J. Sheehan (eds.): The Second Generation. Émigrés from Nazi Germany as Historians . Berghahn Books, New York 2016, ISBN 978-1-78238-985-9 , pp. 18, 33, 357 .
  2. ↑ cf. Joan Campbell. Obituary. In: The Toronto Star , March 9, 2013 (accessed January 30, 2014).
personal data
SURNAME Campbell, Joan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stolper, Johanna (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American historian with a focus on recent European history
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH March 3, 2013
Place of death Toronto