Konrad Canis

Otto Paul Konrad Canis (born February 6, 1938 in Wurzen ) is a German historian .

The son of a teacher passed his Abitur in Wurzen in 1956. From 1956 to 1958 he did military service. From 1958 to 1962 he studied history at the University of Leipzig . He was then a scientific assistant, in 1965 he became a senior scientific assistant in Rostock. In the same year he received his doctorate with the work The Prussian Militarism in the Revolution of 1848 . In 1970 Canis became a professor at the University of Rostock . In 1975 he completed his habilitation at the University of Rostock with an examination of Bismarck and Waldersee. The foreign policy crisis of the Bonapartist dictatorship and the position of the General Staff. Since 1975 he taught as a university lecturer and from 1980 to 1999 as a full professor of German history at the Humboldt University in Berlin . Canis was visiting professor at the University of Vienna (1999/2000) and the Humboldt University Berlin (2000/2001). He has been retired since 2003.

His main research interests are German history from 1789 to 1871, the history of the German Empire and the history of international relations. His three-volume presentation on German foreign policy between 1870 and 1914, begun in 1997, is considered a standard work. In 2016 he published a detailed account of Austria-Hungary's foreign policy from 1866 to 1914. Konrad Canis is a member of the Leibniz Society of Sciences in Berlin .

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Monographs

• The oppressed great power. Austria-Hungary and the European system of power 1866 / 67–1914. Schöningh, Paderborn 2016, ISBN 978-3-506-78564-0 .
• The way into the abyss. German foreign policy 1902–1914. Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-506-77120-9 .
• Bismarck's Foreign Policy 1870–1890. Ascent and endangerment (= Otto von Bismarck Foundation. Scientific series. 6). Schöningh, Paderborn 2004, ISBN 3-506-70131-2 ( review in: H-Soz-u-Kult ).
• From Bismarck to world politics. German foreign policy 1890 to 1902 (= studies on international history. 3). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-05-002758-4 .
• Bismarck and Waldersee. The foreign policy crisis phenomena and the behavior of the General Staff 1882 to 1890 (= writings of the Central Institute for History. 60, ISSN  0138-3566 ). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1980.
• Prussian militarism in the revolution of 1848. Rostock 1965, (Rostock, University, dissertation, June 12, 1965; typed).

Web links

• Literature by and about Konrad Canis in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry on Konrad Canis in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium