Peter Haenger

Peter Haenger (* 1960 ) is a Swiss historian .

Life

Peter Haenger studied history, sociology and ethnology at the University of Basel . He wrote his licentiate thesis in 1989 on The Basler Mission in the area of ​​tension between attempts at African integration and European colonial policy (unpublished). In 1996 he received his doctorate in Basel with a thesis on slavery and slave emancipation in West Africa. He works as a teacher at the high school in Muttenz and as a freelance historian. His research focuses on the colonial history of Africa and the social and economic history of Basel in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Fonts (selection)

• Slavery and slave emancipation on the Gold Coast. A contribution to the understanding of social dependency relationships in West Africa. Helbing & Lichtenhahn, Basel 1997 (dissertation, University of Basel, 1996).
  • English translation: Slaves and slave holders on the Gold Coast. Towards an understanding of social bondage in West Africa. Edited by JJ Shaffer and Paul E. Lovejoy. Introduction by Paul E. Lovejoy. Translated from the German by Christina Handford. Schlettwein, Basel 2000.
• The meat and the butchers. Meat consumption and butcher's trade in Basel. Chronos, Zurich 2001
• with Niklaus Stettler and Robert Labhardt : Cotton, Slaves and Loans. The Basel global trading company Christoph Burckhardt & Cie. in revolutionary times (1789-1815). Merian, Basel 2004.
• Doctors in the 19th century. By craft surgeons and academic medical professionals. On behalf of EE Zunft zum Goldenen Stern. Merian, Basel 2010

Web links

• Biographical information on the website of Lehrmittelverlag Zürich