Peter Sebald

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Peter Sebald (born May 15, 1934 in Niesky ; † March 5, 2018 in Berlin ) was a German historian .

Peter Sebald studied history in Leipzig . In 1956 he began studying the history of Togo under German colonial rule . In the late 1960s, Sebald headed the GDR's first culture and information center in Africa, the "House of Friendship" in Zanzibar . From 1978 to 1991 he worked as a research assistant at the Institute for General History of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR in Berlin. From 1990 to 2010 he researched three months a year in Lomé in the National Archives of Togo and taught at the university there.

Peter Sebald published on the history of German colonialism.

Peter Sebald built a model of the Kamina radio station , which was shown in 2009 on the occasion of a book and photo project by Reinhard Klein-Arendt at the Goethe Institute in Lomé .

Monographs by Peter Sebald (in chronological order)

About the history of Africa:

  • Malam Musa - Gottlob Adolf Krause . 1850-1938. Researcher - Scientist - Humanist. Life and life's work of an anti-colonial-minded African scholar under the conditions of colonialism. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1972.
  • Lost in Africa's jungle. New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1974, 2nd edition 1982.
  • Togo 1884–1914. A history of the German “model colony” based on official sources. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1988.
  • Peter Heine, Ulrich van der Heyden (ed.): Studies on the history of German colonialism in Africa. Festschrift for the 60th birthday of Peter Sebald. Centaurus-Verlagsgesellschaft, Pfaffenweiler 1995.
  • On the German trail in Lomé: A city guide. [Sebald], Lomé 1997.
  • Hans Gruner : Advance to Niger. The memoirs of the leader of the Togo hinterland expedition 1894/95. Edited and introduced by Peter Sebald (= Volume IV of the Cognoscere series ). Edition Ost, Berlin 1997.
  • Ernst Vollbehr : Impressions from Togo. Catalog of the joint exhibition of the Goethe-Institut Lomé and the Institut für Länderkunde Leipzig. Preface by Peter Sebald. Leipzig 1997.
  • Adam Jones, Peter Sebald (Eds.): An African Family Archive. The Lawsons of Little Popo / Aneho (Togo) 1841–1938. The British Academy, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2005.
  • The German colony of Togo 1884–1914. Aftermath of foreign rule. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-86153-693-2 .

On the history of the town of Niesky in Upper Lusatia :

  • Niesky 1742. The documents of the Brethren for the foundation of Niesky. Edited by the Niesky Brethren, edited and commented on by Peter Sebald. Niesky 1992.
  • History of Niesky 1742–1992. Volume 1: Administration by the Brethren 1742–1892. Niesky-Herrnhut 1998.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice , in: Sächsische Zeitung of March 7, 2018.
  2. ↑ Steffen Gerhardt: Jenseits von Afrika und Niesky , in: Sächsische Zeitung of March 7, 2018.
  3. ↑ Kamina - The transcontinental radio station of the Empire in Togo 1911 - 1914.
personal data
SURNAME Sebald, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Niesky
DATE OF DEATH 5th March 2018
Place of death Berlin