Peter von Sivers (historian)
Peter von Sivers (* 1940 ) is an American historian.
Life
After graduating from the Städtisches Realgymnasium Koblenz in 1960, he studied political science , history and culture of the Middle East, philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich (1960–1967) and the School of Oriental and African Studies (autumn ) with Eric Voegelin and Hans-Joachim Kißling 1964). He had grants from the Volkswagen Foundation, the Earhart Foundation and the British Council (1964–1967).
After graduating as Dr. phil. (magna cum laude, Philosophical Faculty, LMU) in July 1967 he was assistant at the Institute for Political Science, University of Munich, 1967–1968; Visiting Assistant Professor, 1968–1969, and Lecturer, Department of History, UCLA , 1970–1975; Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Northwestern University , 1969–1970 and since 1975 Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Utah .
Works (selection)
- Caliphate, royalty, and decay. Ibn Khaldun's political theory (= series of publications on politics and history ). List, Munich 1968, OCLC 561681202 (also dissertation, Munich 1967).
- (Ed.): Respublika Christiana. Political Thought of Orthodox Christianity in the Middle Ages. Sacerdotium ac imperium. John of Salisbury . Thomas Aquinas . William of Ockham . Council theorists (= List University Series History of Political Thought . Volume 1506). List, Munich 1969, OCLC 72949062 .
- (Ed.): Eric Voegelin: History of political ideas. Volume 2. The Middle Ages to Aquinas (= The collected works . Volume 20). University of Missouri Press, Columbia 1997, ISBN 0-8262-1142-9 .
- with Charles A. Desnoyers and George Stow: Patterns of world history . Oxford University Press, New York 2012, ISBN 978-0-19-533287-2 .
Web links
- resume
- List of Emeriti Department of History, University of Utah
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| SURNAME | Sivers, Peter von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1940 |