Josef Mooser

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Josef Albert Mooser (born November 18, 1946 in Abensberg ) is a German historian .

Life

The son of a farmer studied history , German and social studies at the University of Munich from 1968 to 1973 and graduated in 1974 with the state examination. From 1973 to 1976 he studied history at the University of Bielefeld and wrote his dissertation with Reinhart Koselleck . In 1978 he received his doctorate with the distinction summa cum laude . In the same year he became a research assistant in Bielefeld, in 1979 he switched to the working group for modern social history at Heidelberg University as a research assistant . In 1980 he came back to Bielefeld as a research assistant , where he was working on his habilitation thesis . In 1986 he completed his habilitation and received the Venia legendi for the subject of modern history . In the same year he became a temporary professor (C2) for modern history with a special focus on cultural and social history at Bielefeld University. In the winter semester 1988/89 and the summer semester 1989 he represented Jürgen Kocka at the Free University of Berlin . In 1990 he became a representative of a C3 professorship for modern history, with special emphasis on social and economic history at the University of Trier . From 1993 he was Professor of General History of the 20th Century at the University of Basel . At the end of the fall semester 2011 he was retired.

His research focuses on the German social, economic and cultural history of the 19th and 20th centuries, the social history of rural societies and the history of workers.

Fonts (selection)

  • Rural class society 1770–1848. Peasants and lower classes, agriculture and trade in eastern Westphalia (= critical studies on historical science . Vol. 64). Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1984, ISBN 3-525-35723-0 (modified dissertation, Bielefeld University, 1978).
  • Working life in Germany 1900–1970. Class situations, culture and politics (= Edition Suhrkamp. Vol. 1259. New series. Vol. 259). Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1984, ISBN 3-518-11259-7 .

literature

  • Pascal Maeder, Barbara Lüthi, Thomas Mergel (eds.): Why still social history? A discipline in transition. Festschrift for Josef Mooser on his 65th birthday. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-525-30034-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andrea Heeb Perrig: Interview: “Prosperity is the exception”. In: Baslerstab . October 9, 2011, accessed October 21, 2012.
  2. ↑ Resignations / Emeritus (2010) Prof. Dr. Josef Mooser. (PDF, 32 kB) Rectorate Uni Basel, February 9, 2010, accessed on June 12, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Mooser, Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mooser, Josef Albert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 18, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Abensberg