Peter Haber (historian)

Peter Haber during a lecture (September 2010)

Peter Haber (born January 15, 1964 in Basel ; † April 28, 2013 ibid) was a Swiss historian and lecturer in general history of modern times at the University of Basel .

Life

Haber studied general history, history of Switzerland , sociology , philosophy and constitutional law at the University of Basel and the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg . In Basel, he was charged with a 2005 dissertation on the history of Jews in Hungary PhD ; It was there that he completed his habilitation on the subject of history and digital media . He completed additional training in archive and information sciences at the University of Bern .

With the Swiss historian Jan Hodel, he founded the website hist.net in 1998 , an international platform on the subject of historical studies in the digital age .

Since 1999 he has been teaching at the University of Basel and the University of Lucerne , and from 2004 he was editor-in-chief at H-Soz-u-Kult .

As part of a research project from 2007 to 2011, Haber and Hodel dealt with the importance of Wikipedia for the historical sciences. He also examined the historical foundation of Wikipedia's self-image as the successor to the Alexandria Library and the Encyclopédie . He formulated his criticism of Wikipedia articles in the humanities area as follows:

«The weaknesses of Wikipedia (lie) precisely there […], where many suspect its greatest strength: It is not particularly suitable for getting an initial overview of a complex topic. [...] It is a very demanding task to introduce a historical topic in a tight space. Such contributions are not suitable to be written cooperatively. "

- Peter Haber : Interview in Die Zeit in July 2010.

In the summer semester of 2010, Haber was visiting professor for history, didactics and digital media at the University of Vienna .

Haber died on April 28, 2013 after a long and serious illness.

Fonts

Monographs

• with Anna Sax and Daniel Wiener: The Existence Maximum. Basis for a sustainable Switzerland. Werd-Verlag, Zurich 1997, ISBN 3-85932-212-5 .
• The beginnings of Zionism in Hungary (1897–1904). Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2001, ISBN 3-412-10001-3 .
• Between Jewish tradition and science. The Hungarian orientalist Ignác Goldziher (1850–1921). Dissertation . Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2006, ISBN 3-412-32505-8 .
• with Erik Petry and Daniel Wildmann: Jewish Identity and Nation. Case studies from Central Europe. Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2006, ISBN 3-412-25605-6 .
• Digital past. History in the digital age. Oldenbourg, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-486-70704-5 .

Editorships

• Budapest. Jewish cityscape. Jewish publishing house, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-633-54159-4 .
• Computer history Switzerland - an inventory. Chronos, Zurich 2009, ISBN 978-3-0340-0985-0 .
• with Martin Gasteiner (ed.): Digital work techniques for the humanities and cultural studies. UTB / Böhlau, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-8252-3157-6 .

To Wikipedia

• Wikipedia. A web 2.0 project that wants to be an encyclopedia . History in Science and Education 63 / 5–6 (2012), pp. 261–270.

Web links

Commons : Peter Haber  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Peter Haber in the catalog of the German National Library
• Peter Haber on the website of the Department of History at the University of Basel
• Peter Haber on hist.net
• Short biography and reviews of Peter Haber on www.perlentaucher.de
• Contemporary history and digital humanities . Version: 1.0, In: Docupedia-Zeitgeschichte . September 24, 2012

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Peter Haber at perlentaucher.de , last accessed on April 28, 2013.
2. ↑ The historian Peter Haber has died. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung from May 2, 2013.
3. ↑ "Whoever has a lot of time is in charge of Wikipedia". In: derStandard.at . July 6, 2010, accessed April 28, 2013 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b} Curriculum vitae by Peter Haber. (No longer available online.) Hist.net, archived from the original on May 2, 2013 ; Retrieved April 28, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ Peter Haber at Forschungszentrum Jülich ( Memento from April 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
6. ↑ Wikipedia and the historical sciences. In: hist.net. Retrieved September 25, 2010.
7. ↑ Oliver Hochadel: Between knowledge and know-it-all In: Berner Zeitung , July 18, 2010.
8. ↑ World Library or Diderot's Heir? Traditional lines from Wikipedia. ( Memento of the original from March 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ( PDF , 43 kB), published in print in: Conference proceedings on INFORMATIK 2007. 37th annual conference of the Gesellschaft für Informatik e. V. (GI); Workshop of the “Department of Computer Science and Computer History” in connection with the “Presidium's Working Group on the History of Computer Science”, 24. – 27. September 2007, last accessed September 25, 2010. 
9. ↑ Christian Staas: The more controversial, the better. In: Die Zeit , July 10, 2010 (interview).
10. ^ In Memoriam Peter Haber (1964–2013) at weblog.hist.net, accessed on April 28, 2013.