Karl Heinz Metz

Karl Heinz Metz (born June 14, 1946 in Seefeld (Upper Bavaria) ) is a German historian .

Metz studied history, German, political science and philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . He received his doctorate in 1976 in Munich with a study on methodological questions in the history of science, which he discussed using case studies. After research stays and a. He completed his habilitation in Oxford and Bielefeld in 1983 and in 1986 became Professor of Modern History, with a focus on Western European history, at the University of Erlangen . He has been retired since 2011 .

Fonts (selection)

• Basic forms of historiographical thinking. History of science as methodology, presented by Ranke, Treitschke and Lamprecht. With an appendix on contemporary history theory . Fink, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-7705-1550-1 (= at the same time: Munich, Univ., Department of History and Art Studies, Diss., 1976).
• Industrialization and social policy. The problem of social security in Great Britain 1795–1911 (= publications of the German Historical Institute, London , vol. 20). Vandenhoeck u. Ruprecht, Göttingen 1988, ISBN 3-525-36305-2 .
• Origins of the future. The history of technology in western civilization . Schöningh, Paderborn 2006, ISBN 3-506-72962-4 .
• History of violence. War, revolution, terror . Primus, Darmstadt 2010, ISBN 978-3-89678-697-5 .
• From memory to knowledge. A new theory of history . WBG, Darmstadt 2012, ISBN 978-3-534-25221-3 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Karl Heinz Metz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Violence as part of social history. Karl Heinz Metz: "History of Violence". Reviewed by Ulrich Baron . In: Deutschlandradio , April 17, 2011