Patrick Kury

Patrick Kury (* 1962 ) is a history professor at the University of Lucerne .

He studied history, sociology and German literature at the universities of Basel and Vienna . From 1997–2005 he was an assistant, with various research stays abroad, since 2005 senior assistant and lecturer at the universities of Basel , Bern , Zurich and Lucerne . He received his doctorate in 2002 from the University of Basel with a thesis on the history of foreign infiltration in Switzerland and completed his habilitation ( venia legendi ) in 2010 at the University of Bern on the history of stress. He has been a permanent lecturer at the University of Lucerne since 2012, and at the FernUni Schweiz (University Distance Learning Switzerland) since 2014 .

He researches and publishes on Jewish history, the history of migration and the construction of national identities, and the history of knowledge of the population, health and medicine. He also realizes historical exhibitions.

Publications (selection)

author

with André Holenstein, Kristina Schulz : Swiss Migration History. From the beginning to the present . Verlag Hier und Jetzt, 2018.
- Patrick Kury in an interview on the book: “Switzerland has never accepted migrants for purely humanitarian reasons” , Marc Tribelhorn, Martin Beglinger, NZZ , August 27, 2018.
We were not accepted, we were tolerated !: East Jewish migration to Basel 1890–1930. Helbing & Lichtenhahn, Basel / Frankfurt a. M. 2017.
Talking about strangers. Foreign infiltration discourse and exclusion in Switzerland 1900–1945. Publications of the Archives for Contemporary History ETH Zurich (Vol. 4), Zurich 2017 / Chronos Verlag, Zurich 2003.
The overwhelmed person. A story of knowledge from stress to burnout. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt / New York 2012.
with Barbara Lüthi : Setting limits: dealing with foreigners in Switzerland and the USA 1890–1950. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne u. a. 2005.
with Georg Kreis : Swiss naturalization norms through the ages. Swiss National Commission for UNESCO, Bern 1996.

Co- / editor

with Roman Rossfeld, Thomas Buomberger (ed.): 14/18 - Switzerland and the Great War , Baden 2014
with Heiko Haumann , Peter Haber , Kathrin Ringger, Bettina Zeugin (ed.): The First Zionist Congress of 1897 - causes, meaning, topicality. Basel u. a. 1997.

Exhibitions, catalogs

Patrick Kury, Philipp Sarasin , Regula Bochsler (eds.): Dear Fraulein, what do you cost? Prostitution in Zurich 1875–1925. Catalog for the exhibition of the same name. Baden 2004.
Patrick Kury, Helena Kanyar (eds.): Switzerland and the foreigners 1798–1848–1998. Volume accompanying the exhibition in the University Library of Basel, Basel 1998.

Individual evidence

↑ About the authors . In: Gisela Hauss, Susanne Maurer (eds.): Migration, flight and exile in the mirror of social work . 1st edition. Haupt Verlag, Bern / Stuttgart / Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-258-07559-4 , p. 309 .

Web links

Prof. Dr. Patrick Kury - University of Lucerne on the website of the University of Lucerne , unilu.ch
PD Dr. Patrick Kury at the University of Bern
Prof. Dr. Patrick Kury on the web of FernUni Switzerland (University Distance Learning Switzerland), fernuni.ch

personal data
SURNAME	Kury, Patrick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	1962

[1] About the authors . In: Gisela Hauss, Susanne Maurer (eds.): Migration, flight and exile in the mirror of social work . 1st edition. Haupt Verlag, Bern / Stuttgart / Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-258-07559-4 , p. 309 .