John Hiden
John Hiden (born February 21, 1940 in London ; died August 10, 2012 in Leeds ) was a British historian.
Life
John Hiden attended public school in Acton, London . He studied history at the University of London and received his doctorate in 1970 with a dissertation on the political relations between the Weimar Republic and the Baltic states. The dissertation appeared in print in 1987.
Hiden taught at the University of Aberdeen from 1973 and moved to the University of Bradford in 1979 . There he founded a research center for the history of the Baltic States. From 2002 he continued to work as emeritus in Bradford and as a senior research fellow at Glasgow University . Among other things, Hiden was a member of the German Baltic Historical Commission .
Hiden was married to Juliet Hiden since 1963; they have two children.
Fonts (selection)
- The Weimar Republic . Longman, 1974
- Germany and Europe, 1919-39 . 1977
- with John Farquharson: Explaining Hitler's Germany . 1983
- The Baltic States and Weimar Ostpolitik . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987
- The Baltic in International Relations Between the Two World Wars . 1988
- with Thomas Lane: The Baltic and the Outbreak of the Second World War . Cambridge University Press, 1992, ISBN 0-521-53120-9
- Republican and Fascist Germany . 1996
- Defender of Minorities: Paul Schiemann , 1876–1944 . London: Hurst, 2004, ISBN 1-85065-751-3
- with Martyn Housden : Neighbors or Enemies? Germans, the Baltic and Beyond . Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2008
- with David Smith: Ethnic Diversity and the Nation State . 2012
literature
- Obituary of John Hiden , in: Central and Eastern European Review, 6/2012, ISSN 1752-7503 PDF
Web links
- Literature by and about John Hiden in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about John Hiden in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Martyn Housden: John Hiden , obituary, in: The Guardian, September 16, 2012
- Udo Bongartz: John Hiden has died , obituary, in: Latvian Press Review, October 4, 2012
Individual evidence
- ^ Karsten Brüggemann : Defender of Minorities. Paul Schiemann, 1876–1944 , Review in Reviews in History, May 2005 ISSN 1749-8155
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hiden, John |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 21, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 10, 2012 |
| Place of death | Leeds |