Peter Oliver Loew

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Peter Oliver Loew (2015)

Peter Oliver Loew (* 1967 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German historian, translator and university lecturer. He is mainly concerned with the history of Poland.

Life

Peter Oliver Loew studied Eastern European history , Slavic studies and economics at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg , the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and the Freie Universität Berlin . With a doctoral thesis on local historical culture in Gdansk , he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD . In 2002 he became a research associate at the German Poland Institute in Darmstadt. In 2014 he completed his habilitation at the Technical University of Dresden . As a private lecturer , Loew succeeded Dieter Bingen as director of the German Poland Institute, whose deputy he had previously been, in autumn 2019 . Loew deals with the history of Poland and Silesia , German-Polish relations in modern times , regional and urban history, especially the history of the city of Gdansk and Pomerania , with minority history and cultural aspects of the history of East Central Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries . For 2006/07 he received a teaching position at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz . He has been teaching at the Technical University of Darmstadt since 2009 and also at the TU Dresden since 2014. In addition to his academic work, he translates from Polish.

Publications

  • with Jarosław Ellwart: Śladami Bismarcka po Pomorzu. Region, Gdynia 2001, ISBN 83-87400-60-2 . German edition: In Bismarck's footsteps in Western Pomerania. A historical-tourist guide. Region, Gdynia 2003, ISBN 83-87400-78-5
  • (Ed. :) Poland thinks of Europe. Political texts from two centuries. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-518-41621-9
  • Gdańsk literacki (1793-1945). Mestwin, Gdańsk 2005.
  • Gdańsk. Między mitami. Borussia, Olsztyn 2006.
  • Literary guide to Gdansk. Eight city walks. German Cultural Forum Eastern Europe, Potsdam 2009, ISBN 978-3-936168-43-3
  • The literary Danzig 1793 to 1945. Building blocks for a local cultural history. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 2009, ISBN 978-3-631-57571-0 excerpts
  • Danzig. Biography of a city. Beck, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-406-60587-1 excerpts
  • We invisible. History of the Poles in Germany. Beck, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-406-66708-4 .

Honors

  • Katarzyna Cieślak Prize (bankruptcy in. Dr Katarzyny Cieślak, 2003)
  • Prize of the Societas Jablonoviana (2013)
  • Adalbertus Medal of the City of Gdansk (Medal św. Wojciecha, 2014)
  • Martin Opitz Prize of the City of Gdansk (2014)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dissertation: Danzig and its past 1793–1997. The historical culture of a city between Germany and Poland .
  2. ↑ a b c d e PD Dr. Peter Oliver Loew (DPI)
  3. ↑ Christoph von Marschall: The Sisyphos of Darmstadt. In: www.tagesspiegel.de. September 27, 2019, accessed October 6, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Berlin was ready for Satan , in FAZ of October 24, 2014, page 12
personal data
SURNAME Loew, Peter Oliver
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian, translator and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main