Riccardo Bavaj

Riccardo Bavaj (* 1976 in Aachen ) is a German historian .

Life

Riccardo Bavaj studied Medieval and Modern History, Eastern European History and Economics at the Universities of Bonn and Southampton . He received his Magister Artium in 2001 and his doctorate in 2004. After working as a research volunteer at the Institute for Westphalian Regional History, he moved to the University of St Andrews in Scotland as a lecturer in 2005 , where he teaches German and European history of the 20th century. From 2009 to 2011 Riccardo Bavaj conducted research as a Feodor Lynen Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in the USA and was visiting professor at Saint Louis University .

Bavaj has published on the history of the Weimar Republic , National Socialism , liberalism after 1945 as well as the phenomena of the “West” and European modernity, and focuses on the history of ideas, concepts and space.

Awards

From 2002 to 2004 Riccardo Bavaj was a PhD scholarship holder from the German National Academic Foundation and in 2005 a research scholarship from the Fritz Thyssen Foundation . He has been a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society since 2006 and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy since 2007. In 2009 Bavaj received the Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship, which is awarded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation .

Fonts (selection)

As an author:

• The ambivalence of modernity under National Socialism. A balance sheet of research. Oldenbourg, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-486-56752-7 .
• From the left towards Weimar. Left anti-parliamentary thinking in the Weimar Republic (= political and social history. Vol. 67). JHW Dietz Nachf., Bonn 2005, ISBN 3-8012-4155-6 .
• Intellectual History. Version 1.0. In: Docupedia contemporary history . September 13, 2010.
• National Socialism. Origin, Rise, and Rule. Bebra, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-89809-407-8 .

As editor:

• with Florentine Fritzen: Germany - a country without revolutionary traditions? Revolutions in Germany of the 19th and 20th centuries in the light of more recent intellectual and cultural-historical findings. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-631-52871-X .
• with Martina Steber: Germany and “The West”. The History of a Modern Concept. Berghahn, New York 2015, ISBN 978-1-78238-597-4 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Riccardo Bavaj in the catalog of the German National Library
• Riccardo Bavaj's website
• Riccardo Bavaj on Academia.edu
• Riccardo Bavaj's researcher profile at Clio-online

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.bebra-wissenschaft.de/autoren/autor/339-Riccardo_Bavaj , be.bra Wissenschaft Verlag
2. ↑ http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/staff/riccardobavaj.html , University of St Andrews website
3. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated February 26, 2007 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. , history.ac.uk 
4. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from March 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Saint Louis University website, Nov. 16, 2009 
5. ↑ Virtual Specialist Library Eastern Europe  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , vifaost.de