Matthias Berg (historian)

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Matthias Berg (* 1974 in Berlin ) is a German historian .

Matthias Berg completed a commercial apprenticeship from 1993 to 1996. From 1997 to 2005 he then studied modern and contemporary history, political science, sociology and economics at the Humboldt University in Berlin . In 2006 he obtained a Magister Artium degree. His master's thesis dealt with the historian Wilhelm Grau and his contribution to “Jewish research” in the years 1933 to 1938. From 2006 to 2007 he was a research assistant for the research project “Population science and population policy in the Federal Republic of Germany” at the Center for Research on Antisemitism at the Technical University of Berlin . From 2007 to 2010 he was a research assistant at the Institute for History of the Berlin Humboldt University in the research project "The Historian Karl Alexander von Müller and German History between the Late Empire and the Federal Republic". From 2011 to 2012 he was a research assistant at the Humboldt University in Berlin in the research project “Preparation of a pilot study on the history of the Historians' Association”. He received his doctorate in 2013 at the HU Berlin with a thesis on Karl Alexander von Müller supervised by Rüdiger vom Bruch and Michael Wildt . From April 2013 to 2017 he was a research assistant at Martin Sabrow's chair at the Humboldt University in Berlin in the research project “Institutionalized History. The Association of German Historians and its Historians Days 1890 to 1950 ”, funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation . In 2017/2018 he was a research assistant at the Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in the edition project "The Scientific Correspondence of the Historian Karl Hegel (1813–1901)". Berg was on parental leave in 2018. Since October 1, 2019, he has been a research assistant for the Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in the edition project "The New German Biography (1940–1975) - A Biographical Memory of the Federal Republic?"

His work focuses on the history of science, universities and historiography of the 19th and 20th centuries. His dissertation on Karl Alexander von Müller, published in 2014, is considered a standard work. Until then, there was no scientific monographic account of one of the most influential historians under National Socialism . Berg traces the life of Müller in eight chronologically structured sections. For the first time, he fully included Müller's estate for the study. He describes Müller as the prototype of a historian for whom crossing the borders between science, politics and society was commonplace. Especially in the Nazi era, Müller acted as a link between the generations.

Berg worked on the 846-page handbook of ethnic science with more than 140 articles on people, institutions and fields of ethnic science in Germany between the Weimar Republic and the former Federal Republic. Berg edited Karl Alexander von Müller's correspondence from 1910 to 1960 for the Department of German Historical Sources of the 19th and 20th Centuries at the Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. Berg worked on a research project for the Association of Historians in Germany and its Historikertage from 1890 to 1950.

Fonts

Monographs

  • with Olaf Blaschke , Martin Sabrow , Jens Thiel , Krijn Thijs: The assembled guild. Association of Historians and Historians' Days in Germany. 2 volumes. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2018, ISBN 3-8353-3294-5 .
  • Karl Alexander von Müller. Historian for National Socialism (= series of publications by the Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. Volume 88). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-525-36013-2 .

Editorships

  • with Martin Sabrow: The German Association of Historians in an interdisciplinary comparison (= Comparativ. 25, 2015,1). Leipziger Universitäts-Verlag, Leipzig 2015, ISBN 978-3-86583-974-9 .
  • with Jens Thiel and Peter Th. Walther: With pen and sword. Military and science - scientists and war (= science, politics and society. Volume 7). Steiner, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-515-09606-5 .

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Project to process the history of the VHD .
  2. ↑ See the reviews .
  3. ^ Matthias Berg: Karl Alexander von Müller. Historian for National Socialism. Göttingen 2014, p. 15.
  4. ^ Matthias Berg: Karl Alexander von Müller. Historian for National Socialism. Göttingen 2014, pp. 26, 215, 223, 245, 459.
personal data
SURNAME Berg, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin