John Horne (historian)

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John Nicholas Horne (born February 5, 1949 ) is a historian . He is Professor Emeritus of Modern European History at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland .

Life

Horne studied 1968-71 at Balliol College, Oxford University with a degree in modern history. He received his doctorate at the University of Sussex Dr. phil. From 1977 to 1991 he was a lecturer in modern French and European history at Trinity College, Dublin, then senior lecturer in European history (1991-1997) and assistant professor of modern European history (1997-2003). In 2003 he was appointed Professor of Modern European History at Trinity College. From 2008 to 2010 he was first director of the Center for War Studies at Trinity College , Dublin, which he co-founded . In addition, he had study visits and visiting professorships a. a. in Princeton (School of Historical Studies), at Rutgers University , at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) Paris and at the Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of Freiburg .

In 2003 Horne was a founding member of EURHISTXX, an association of European research institutions, which describes the modern history of Europe from a comparative and trans-national perspective.

honors and awards

  • 2000 Fraenkel Prize in contemporary history (with Alan Kramer), 2000
  • 2005 Marc Bloch lecture at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris
  • Elected to the Royal Irish Academy in 2005

Publications

  • Labor at War. France and Britain, 1914-1918. Clarendon Press, 1991
  • with Alan Kramer : German Atrocities, 1914. A History of Denial. Yale, 2001.
    • German war atrocities 1914. The controversial truth . From the English by Udo Rennert, Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-930908-94-8 .
  • as editor with Robert Gerwarth : Paramilitary violence in Europe after the First World War . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-8353-1298-2 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ John Horne, Fellow Emeritus, History . Trinity Research, Trinity College, accessed August 31, 2019
  2. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from November 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tcd.ie
  3. ↑ CV. Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies, accessed on August 31, 2019
  4. ^ Members: John Nicholas Horne. Royal Irish Academy, accessed May 8, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Horne, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Horn, John Nicholas (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1949