Peter Borowsky

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Peter Borowsky (born June 3, 1938 in Angerburg ; † October 13, 2000 in Hamburg ) was a German historian and professor of modern history with a focus on contemporary history at the University of Hamburg .

Life

Borowsky attended various schools during the Second World War and in the post-war period and graduated from high school in 1959 in Bethel , Bielefeld. He then studied history and Latin as well as education, psychology and philosophy in Marburg , Freiburg and at the University of Hamburg from 1959 to 1965 .

After the teaching qualification for grammar schools, Borowsky became a research assistant to Fritz Fischer in 1966 , with whom he received his doctorate in 1968 on German Ukraine policy in 1918. In 1970 he was appointed to the Scientific Council, the following year to the Scientific Councilor, he continued to teach modern and contemporary history at the Department of History in Hamburg , since 1974 also regularly as a visiting professor at Smith College in Northampton , Massachusetts , and since 1991 at Middlebury College in the US state Vermont .

Borowsky completed his habilitation in Modern History in 1991, with a special focus on contemporary history, in Hamburg, where he then worked as a private lecturer . He was appointed professor in 1996, but without receiving a chair.

Borowsky wrote numerous articles on Eastern European, German and Hamburg history of the 19th and 20th centuries. His introduction to history , first published in 1975 together with Heide Wunder and Barbara Vogel , is still significant today. He wrote a biography of Hitler for young people .

Fonts

For a complete list of Borowsky's writings, see the Peter Borowsky bibliography . In: Rainer Hering / Rainer Nicolaysen (eds.): Living social history. Commemorative publication for Peter Borowsky . Westdeutscher Verlag, Wiesbaden 2003, ISBN 3-531-13717-4 , pp. 795-797.

  • German Ukraine policy 1918 with special consideration of economic questions . Matthiesen, Lübeck / Hamburg 1970 (dissertation; = historical studies , volume 416).
  • (with Barbara Vogel and Heide Wunder) Introduction to history I. Basic problems, work organization, resources . Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1975 (5th edition 1989; online ; = Study Books Modern History , Volume 1).
  • (with Barbara Vogel and Heide Wunder) Introduction to History II. Materials on Theory and Method . Opladen 1975 (2nd edition 1980; = study books Modern History , Volume 2).
  • Adolf Hitler . Dressler, Hamburg 1978 (5th edition 1990; = Dressler Menschen) .
  • The Soviet Union 1917–1982 . Schöningh, Paderborn 1986 (= times and people , edition Q).
  • Germany 1970–1976 . Hanover 1980 (= Zeitgeschehen edition ).
  • Germany 1963–1969 . Hanover 1983 (= Zeitgeschehen edition ).
  • Germany 1969–1982 . Hanover 1987 (= Edition Zeitgeschehen ).
  • Germany 1945–1969 . Hanover 1993 (= Current Issues Edition ).
  • Highlights of historical research. Studies on German history in the 19th and 20th centuries . Edited from the estate by Rainer Hering and Rainer Nicolaysen. Hamburg University Press, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-937816-17-8 (14 previously unprinted manuscripts; online edition: urn : nbn: de: gbv: 18-3-93 , PDF, 1.4 MB).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ For an overview of his teaching activities see courses by Peter Borowsky . In: Rainer Hering / Rainer Nicolaysen (eds.): Living social history. Commemorative publication for Peter Borowsky . Westdeutscher Verlag, Wiesbaden 2003, ISBN 3-531-13717-4 , pp. 798-804.
personal data
SURNAME Borowsky, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Angerburg
DATE OF DEATH October 13, 2000
Place of death Hamburg