Madeleine Herren-Oesch

Madeleine Herren-Oesch (born January 26, 1956 in Bern ) is a Swiss historian .

Madeleine Herren-Oesch studied history and German at the University of Bern. She wrote her licentiate thesis on "Aspects of cisleithan social policy " and in 1989 her dissertation on "International social policy before the First World War from the perspective of the Third French Republic". 1997 habilitation them with "back doors to power. Internationalism and Modernization-Oriented Foreign Policy in Belgium, Switzerland and the USA 1865–1914 ”. From 2004 to 2013 Madeleine Herren-Oesch was Professor of Modern History at Heidelberg University . Since April 1, 2013, she has been head of the European Institute at the University of Basel .

Fonts

• International social policy before the First World War . The beginnings of European cooperation from the point of view of France (Writings on Economic and Social History, Vol. 41) , Berlin 1993.
• Back doors to power. Internationalism and modernization-oriented foreign policy in Belgium, Switzerland and the USA 1865–1914, Munich 2000.
• Foreign Policy Network. International organizations and congresses as instruments of Swiss foreign policy 1914–1950 , Madeleine Herren-Oesch and Sacha Zala , Zurich 2002.
• International Organizations since 1865. A Global History of the International Order. Knowledge Book Society, Darmstadt 2009, ISBN 978-3-534-20365-9 .
• Staged life. The disenchanted biography of the self-promoter Dr. Tomarkin , Madeleine Herren-Oesch, Franziska Rogger, Cologne / Vienna 2012.
• Transcultural History. Theories, Methods, Sources , Madeleine Herren-Oesch, Martin Rüesch, Christiane Sibille, Heidelberg 2012.

Web links

• Literature by and about Madeleine Herren-Oesch in the catalog of the German National Library
• Page at the historical seminar of Heidelberg University
• Page at the European Institute of the University of Basel

Awards

• 2013: German Biography Prize (together with Franziska Rogger ) for Staged Life. The disenchanted biography of the self-promoter Dr. Tomarkin. Vienna: Böhlau / Zurich: NZZ, 2012, ISBN 978-3-03-823789-1 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 6th German Biography Prize 2013 ( Memento of the original dated December 31, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the Biography Center website, accessed May 11, 2017.