John Milton Hoberman

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John Milton Hoberman

John Milton Hoberman (* 1944 ) is Professor of Germanic Languages ​​at the University of Texas at Austin and one of the most important social science critics of sport.

biography

He studied English and Germanic languages ​​and graduated in 1966 with a BA at Haverford College , Haverford, PA, an MA in 1969 and a PhD in 1975 at the University of California, Berkeley . He taught Norwegian at Berkeley, the University of Wisconsin – Madison and 1975–1976 at Harvard University . There he was Assistant Professor for Scandinavian Languages ​​from 1976 to 1979, before moving to the University of Texas at Austin, where he was a professor from 1979 to 1992, before becoming a full professor and from 2005 to 2009 director of the institute. In 2014 he retired as a professor. He is a Fellow of the European Committee for Sports History .

As an expert on sports in the Scandinavian and German-speaking countries, he has also worked with colleagues from these countries. His provocative books have been translated into different languages. His book Mortal Engines ( mortal machines ) became a standard work in German doping history . He is considered an expert on the American doping scene, where he criticizes the sports associations because they are more interested in the image of their own association than in solving the problem. He has criticized the widespread racism in American sports . Here, however, he was accused of arguing from a racist position himself. He held the Horst Ueberhorst Honorary Address at the European Committee for Sports History .

Publications

  • Sport and Political Ideology . Austin 1984. ISBN 0-292-77588-1 .
  • The Olympic Crisis: Sport, Politics, and the Moral Order . New Rochelle, New York 1986. ISBN 0-89241-224-0 .
  • Mortal Engines: The Science of Performance and the Dehumanization of Sport . New York 1992. ISBN 0-02-914765-4 .
    • German: Mortal machines: doping and the inhumanity of high-performance sport . Aachen 1994. ISBN 3-89124-196-8 .
  • Darwin's Athletes: How Sport Has Damaged Black America and Preserved the Myth of Race . Boston 1997. ISBN 0-395-82291-2 .
  • with Verner Møller: Doping and public policy . Odense 2004. ISBN 8778389429 .
  • Testosterone Dreams . California 2005. ISBN 0-520-22151-6 .
  • Black and blue: the origins and consequences of medical racism . Berkeley 2012. ISBN 9780520248908 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ John Hoberman, Verner Møller (Ed.) Doping and Public Policy. Odense: University Press of Southern Denmark 2004.
  2. ↑ John Hoberman & Arnd Krüger (eds.). Journal of sport history 17 (2) 1990 (Special Issue: German sports historiography ).
  3. ^ Incident in the mendacious milieu Berliner Zeitung September 26, 1998 .
  4. ↑ Yearbook 2012 of the German Society for the History of Sports Science eV Berlin 2014. ISBN 978-3-643-12437-1 , p. 102.
  5. ↑ Testosterone Dreams: Rejuvenation, Aphrodisia, Doping (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005; Mortal Machines: Doping and the inhumanity of high-performance sport . Aachen: Meyer & Meyer 1994.
  6. ^ Darwin's Athletes: How Sport Has Damaged Black America and Preserved the Myth of Race . Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1997; Black & Blue: The Origins and Consequences of Medical Racism. Berkeley: University of California Press 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Hoberman, John Milton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American sports sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1944