Jutta Scherrer

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Jutta Scherrer (* 1942 in Berlin ) is a Franco-German Eastern European historian with a focus on Russian history . She taught for a long time as a professor of Russian history at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris , today she is retired.

Life

Scherrer was born in what was later to be East Berlin and grew up there until 1958; she moved to West Berlin and then studied Eastern European history, Slavic studies and sociology at the Free University of Berlin , in Cambridge / USA and in Paris.

She received her doctorate in 1971 with a work The Petersburg Religious-Philosophical Associations: the development of the religious self-image of its Intelligencija members; (1901 - 1917) at the Free University of Berlin. From 1973 she worked at the Paris Center National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). Since 1980 she has taught social sciences at the École des Hautes Études. Her research focuses on the social, political and cultural history of Russia. From 1997 she worked for a two-year research stay at the Franco-German science center "Marc Bloch" in Berlin.

From 1995 she worked in an advisory capacity for universities in Moscow and Petersburg and helped set up new institutes. She is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the "European University of Petersburg".

Scherrer was only able to return to Russia after perestroika (1986). Since that time she has been researching primarily the Russian "intelligentsia" and the development of the image of history after the time of the Soviet Union. She wrote numerous articles in newspapers and magazines such as ZEIT and "Cicero".

Publications (selection)

  • Requiem for Red October. The Russian intelligentsia in transition , Leipzig: Leipziger Univ.-Verlag 1996, ISBN 3-929031-96-5 .
  • Kulturologie: Russia in search of a civilizational identity , Göttingen: Wallstein-Verlag 2003, ISBN 3-89244-474-9 .

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personal data
SURNAME Scherrer, Jutta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Franco-German historian of Eastern Europe
DATE OF BIRTH 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin