Martin Lengwiler

Martin Lengwiler (* 1965 in Winterthur ) is a Swiss historian .

Life

Martin Lengwiler studied history , sociology and literary studies at the University of Zurich and did his doctorate in 1998 with Rudolf Braun . In 2004 he received his habilitation in Zurich , where he then worked as a private lecturer. From August 2009 he was assistant professor for modern general history at the University of Basel , after having already represented Professors Martin Schaffner (2006/07) and Thomas Mergel (2008/09). In January / February 2009 he was visiting professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris . In 2012 he was promoted to full professor in Basel.

He is an associated member of the science policy project group at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB) and has been an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Exeter since 2009 . He also works as editor-in-chief of the Swiss History Journal . Since 2014 he has been a member of the Independent Expert Commission for the Scientific Review of Administrative Care Before 1981 .

His research focuses on the history of the welfare state , the modern history of science and the economic and social history of the 19th and 20th centuries.

(with Stefan Länzlinger and Thomas Meyer) Amriswil . History from the middle of the 19th to the end of the 20th century. Municipality, Amriswil 1999, ISBN 3-9521685-0-5 .
Between clinic and barracks. The history of military psychiatry in Germany and Switzerland, 1870–1914. Chronos , Zurich 2000, ISBN 3-905313-44-8 (= dissertation , University of Zurich, 1998/99).
(with Stefan Länzlinger) Fürigen fortress. (Swiss Art Guide, No. 689, series 69). Ed. Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 2001, ISBN 978-3-85782-689-4 .
(with Urs Lengwiler, Verena Rothenbühler and Markus Stromer) Dietikon : City air and village spirit. From the beginning to the present. Chronos, Zurich 2003, ISBN 3-03-400662-4 .
(with Verena Rothenbühler) Power and impotence of the medical profession. The history of the Zurich Medical Association in the 20th century. Chronos, Zurich 2004, ISBN 3-03-400698-5 .
Risk policy in the welfare state. The Swiss accident insurance 1870-1970 (= Industrial World. Vol. 69). Böhlau , Cologne 2006, ISBN 3-412-08606-1 (= habilitation thesis , University of Zurich, 2004).
(with Verena Rothenbühler and Daniel Kauz) Flying sparks and water shortage, building insurance in Thurgau 1806–2006. Huber, Frauenfeld 2006, ISBN 3-7193-1417-0 .
Practice book history. Introduction to historical methods. Orell Füssli , Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-8252-3393-8 .

Literature by and about Martin Lengwiler in the catalog of the German National Library
Martin Lengwiler on the website of the History Department of the University of Basel