Norman Stone

Norman Stone (born March 8, 1941 in Edinburgh , Scotland , † June 19, 2019 ) was a British historian of modern Europe, especially Central and Eastern Europe.

Life

In 1971 he became director of studies at Jesus College at Cambridge University . In 1975 he published his study The Eastern Front 1914–1917 , which established his reputation and contributed to not only looking at the First World War after what happened in the western theater of war. Stone received the Wolfson History Prize for this in 1976 . Through gambling and alcohol he increasingly neglected his duties and eventually moved to Oxford.

Between 1985 and 1997 Stone was Professor of Modern History at Oxford University . His teaching activity there ended in 1997 with a severance payment. From 1987 to 1990, Thatcher was also the foreign policy advisor to the government . From 1997 Stone worked in Turkey , first at Bilkent University in Ankara, from 2005 at Koç University in Istanbul .

In Germany he was best known for his book Hitler , which Guido Knopp presented on television. In 2004 Stone denied the genocide of the Armenians in the magazines Spectator and Times Literary Supplement - following Bernard Lewis ' theses . He was sometimes sharply criticized for this, B. by the Swiss historian Hans-Lukas Kieser , who accused him in November 2006 in Weltwoche of uncritically following the arguments of the Turkish national PR apparatus after Stone again denied the genocide of the Armenians in a previous edition of the same Swiss publication would have.

Harsh judgments about colleagues, his alcoholism and inappropriate behavior towards female students made him a difficult personality. The former Prime Minister Edward Heath said of Stone during his time in Oxford: “ Many parents of Oxford students must be both horrified and disgusted that the education of our children should rest in the hands of such a man ” (German: “ Many parents of students in Oxford must be both appalled and disgusted that the education of our children is in the hands of such a man. "

From 1966 to 1977 he was married to Nicole Aubrey, the niece of a finance minister under the Haitian dictator François Duvalier . With her he had two sons. In 1982 he married Christine Booker, with whom he had another son, who died in 2016. Stone died in June 2019.

Fonts

• The Eastern Front. 1914-1917. Hodder and Stoughton, London et al. 1975, ISBN 0-340-12874-7 .
• Hitler. Hodder and Stoughton, London et al. 1980, ISBN 0-340-24980-3 .
• Europe Transformed 1878-1919 (= Fontana Paperbacks 4262). Fontana, London 1983, ISBN 0-00-634262-0 (2nd edition. Blackwell, Oxford et al. 1999, ISBN 0-631-21507-7 ).
• as editor with Eduard Strouhal: Czechoslovakia. Crossroads and Crises, 1918-88. Macmillan et al., Basingstoke 1989, ISBN 0-333-48507-6 .
• As editor of the edition: Geoffrey Barraclough (Ed.): The Times Atlas of World History. 3rd edition, Times Books, London 1989, ISBN 0-7230-0304-1 .
• with Michael Glenny : The Other Russia. Faber and Faber, London et al. 1990, ISBN 0-571-13574-9 .
• Islam in Turkey. In: Caroline Y. Robertson-von Trotha (ed.): Europe in the world - the world in Europe (= cultural studies interdisciplinary. Vol. 1). Nomos, Baden-Baden 2006, ISBN 3-8329-1934-1 , pp. 139–145.
• Hungary: A short history . Profile, 2018

Web links

• Stones criticism of European criticism of Turkey , Die Welt , May 9, 2006

Individual evidence

1. ^ Obituary: Norman Stone, hard-living Glaswegian historian who became an advisor to Margaret Thatcher. In: The Herald , June 20, 2019. Retrieved June 21, 2019.
2. ^ Norman Stone: Vote Turkey this Christmas.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: The Spectator . December 18, 2004, accessed February 13, 2012.  
3. ↑ Hans-Lukas Kieser : Core of the matter. In: Die Weltwoche . No. 44/2006, accessed on February 13, 2012.
4. ↑ Norman Stone: It wasn't genocide. In: Die Weltwoche. No. 43/2006, accessed on February 13, 2012.
5. ^ Obituary in The Guardian, June 25, 2019, accessed June 26, 2019
6. ↑ Harry Mount: A tribute to Norman Stone. Obituary in: The Spectator , June 19, 2019, accessed June 19, 2019; see. the obituary in The Guardian of June 25, 2019, accessed on June 26, 2019, is very critical
7. ↑ Paul Lendvai : Nationalist tremors on the eastern edge of Europe . Review, in: Financial Times, January 5, 2019, S. L&A 8