Karl-Joseph Hummel

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Karl-Joseph Hummel (born August 14, 1950 in Augsburg ) is a German historian . From 1993 to 2015 he was director of the research center of the Commission for Contemporary History .

Karl-Joseph Hummel attended elementary school and the humanistic high school near St. Stephan in Augsburg , where he graduated from high school in 1969. From the winter semester 1969/70 he studied history , German literature , political science and philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and the University of Sussex (1971/72) and passed the first state examination for teaching at grammar schools in Munich in 1976 . After completing his legal traineeship , he passed the second state examination in 1978 . From the winter semester 1979 Hummel worked as a research assistant at Thomas Nipperdey at the University of Munich, where he in 1983 with the work Munich in the revolution of 1848-49 doctorate was. From 1984 to 1993 he was employed by the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung in Sankt Augustin as deputy head of the institute for the promotion of talented students and head of the promotion of young journalists . In 1993 Hummel became director of the research center of the Commission for Contemporary History in Bonn . There he retired in 2015. Since the winter semester 2011/12 he has been teaching as an honorary professor at the University of Erfurt .

Fonts (selection)

  • Munich in the revolution of 1848/49 (= series of publications by the Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , Volume 30). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1987.
  • German history 1933–1945. Olzog, Landsberg am Lech 1998.
  • (Ed.): Contemporary Catholicism Research. Facts, interpretations, questions. An interim balance. (= Publications of the Commission for Contemporary History , Series B, Volume 100). Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2006.
  • as editor with Stefan Heid : Papality and patriotism. The Campo Santo Teutonico. Location of the Germans in Rome between Risorgimento and the First World War (1870–1918) (= Roman quarterly for Christian antiquity and church history , supplement 65). Herder, Freiburg (Breisgau) et al. 2018, ISBN 978-3-451-38130-0 .

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SURNAME Hummel, Karl-Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German contemporary historian
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg