Richard H. Tilly

Richard Hugh Tilly (born October 17, 1932 in Chicago ) is an American economic and social historian and university professor.

Life

Richard H. Tilly was born into a family of German descent, but only came into closer contact with Germany as an adult. Tilly studied at the University of Madison-Wisconsin history and graduated in 1955 with the Bachelor of Arts. From 1955 to 1957 he did his military service, partly in Germany. From 1958 to 1961 he attended the Graduate School of the University of Wisconsin – Madison. With the help of a scholarship he was in Cologne from 1961 to 1963 , where he worked on his dissertation on early German industrialization in the Prussian Rhineland . Tilly had been an assistant professor at the University of Michigan since 1963, and in 1964 he received his doctorate (Ph.D. in Economics). Since 1966 Tilly taught at Yale University .

In the summer of 1966, Tilly was invited to lectures at various German universities, where he met the influential empirical economic researcher Walther G. Hoffmann in Münster . On Hoffmann's initiative, Tilly was appointed to the chair of economic and social history at the University of Münster in the fall of 1966 and was appointed director of the Institute for Economic and Social History at the University of Münster . Richard H. Tilly also held visiting professorships in the USA from time to time. He has been retired since 1997.

Richard H. Tilly is the brother of the historian Charles Tilly (1929-2008) and the brother-in-law of the historian Louise Tilly .

Services

Richard H. Tilly has significantly modernized German economic historiography by applying economic theories and econometric methods to economic and social history ( New Economic History , Cliometry ).

Tilly's main areas of work in economic history are early industrialization , the history of companies and their financing, and in social history research into social protests . Tilly's contributions to the history of the German banking system and large German corporations were of particular importance for economic history research. Tilly's socio-historical work is also considered to be groundbreaking for quantifying research into social protests, for example strikes and hunger riots.

Richard H. Tilly is a member of the Working Group for Banking History and the Society for Company History . In 1974 he was one of the co-founders of the magazine Geschichte und Gesellschaft and was the editor of special issues on the history of industrialization. Since the 1990s he has published the Münster articles on cliometry . In 1969 Tilly was elected a full member of the Historical Commission for Westphalia . In 2006 its membership was converted into a corresponding one.

The New Economic History funded by Tilly has proven to be an important innovation for economic history research in Germany. His lasting impact as an academic teacher can be seen in the fact that seven of his students held professorships in economic history or economics at the beginning of the 21st century, including Hans-Heinrich Bass (* 1954), Rolf Horst Dumke (* 1941), Rainer Fremdling (* 1944 ), Carl-Ludwig Holtfrerich (* 1942), Hermann von Laer (* 1945) and Toni Pierenkemper (* 1944).

Honors

Richard H. Tilly was awarded the Edwin Francis Gay Prize for Economic History for his dissertation in 1964 .

On December 10, 2009, he was awarded the Helmut Schmidt Prize for German-American Economic History at the German Historical Institute in Washington .

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

• with Michael Kopsidis: From Old Regime to Industrial State. A History of German Industrialization from the Eighteenth Century to World War I. University of Chicago Press, Chicago 2020, ISBN 978-0-22-672543-7 .
• Willy H. Schlieker. Rise and fall of an entrepreneur (1914–1980). (= Yearbook for Economic History . Supplements 14). Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-05-004477-4 .
• Globalization from a historical perspective and learning from history. (= Cologne lectures on social and economic history. Issue 41). Cologne 1999.
• Money and Credit in Economic History . Steiner, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-515-06785-X .
• From the customs union to the industrial state. The economic and social development of Germany from 1834 to 1914 (= German history of the latest time ). Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-423-04506-X .
• Capital, State and Social Protest in German Industrialization. Collected Essays. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1980 (= Critical Studies in History , Vol. 41), ISBN 3-525-35997-7 .
• with Charles Tilly and Louise Tilly: The Rebellious Century: 1830–1930. Harvard University Press, Harvard 1975, ISBN 0-674-74955-3 .
• Financial Institutions and industrialization in the Rhineland 1815-1870 . University of Wisconsin Press, Madison 1966.

editor

• with Paul JJ Welfens: Economic Globalization, International Organizations and Crisis Management: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives on Growth, Impact and Evolution of Major Organizations in an Interdependent World. ISBN 3-540-65863-7 .
• Banking crises in Central Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries. Steiner, Stuttgart 2000.
• History of Economic Policy. From mercantilism to the social market economy. Oldenbourg, Munich / Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-486-22640-1 .
• Contributions to the quantitative comparative company history. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1985, ISBN 3-608-91325-4 .
• with Rainer Fremdling: Industrialization and Space: Studies on Regional Differentiation in 19th Century Germany. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1979, ISBN 3-12-911070-4 .

Web links

• Press release from the University of Münster
• Toni Pierenkemper: Richard H. Tilly. 1997. (PDF; 1.6 MB)
• Awarded the Helmut Schmidt Prize 2009 to Richard Hugh Tilly
• Literature by and about Richard H. Tilly in the catalog of the German National Library

supporting documents

1. ^ Toni Pierenkemper: Richard H. Tilly. 1997. (PDF; 1.6 MB).
2. ^ Toni Pierenkemper: Richard H. Tilly. 1997. (PDF; 1.6 MB).
3. ^ Toni Pierenkemper: Richard H. Tilly. 1997. (PDF; 1.6 MB).
4. ↑ Short biography of Richard H. Tilly (PDF; 78 kB).
5. ↑ Michael Hecht: Hunger riots, encyclopedia on restoration and Vormärz. German history from 1815 to 1848 .
6. ↑ Award of the Helmut Schmidt Prize 2009 to Richard Hugh Tilly ( memento of the original from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ↑ Award of the Helmut Schmidt Prize 2009 to Richard Hugh Tilly ( memento of the original from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.