Robert Jan van Pelt
Robert Jan van Pelt (born August 15, 1955 in Haarlem , Netherlands ; also Robert-Jan van Pelt ) is a Dutch architectural historian.
Life
After studying art history and archeology, Pelt graduated from Leiden University with a Dr. phil. graduated, his specialty is the history of architecture and urban construction. He teaches as a professor of cultural history at the Institute for Architecture at Waterloo University in Ontario, Canada . He also teaches at universities in London, Singapore and the USA.
He was best known for his architectural-historical work on the subject of Auschwitz . For this he received the “National Jewish Book Award” in 1996 and the “ Spiro Kostof Award” from the Society of Architectural Historians in 1997 . Van Pelt stood up in the trial that David Irving had brought against Deborah Lipstadt and lost, and in 2002 he summarized his opinion in a book.
Robert Jan van Pelt has been a member of the International Scientific Advisory Board of the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI) since 2010 .
Fonts (selection)
- with Carroll William Westfall: Architectural Principles in the Age of Historicism. Yale University Press, New Haven CT et al. 1991, ISBN 0-300-04999-4 .
- A Site in Search of a Mission. In: Yisrael Gutman , Michael Berenbaum (eds.): Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp. Indiana University Press, Bloomington IN 1994, ISBN 0-253-32684-2 , pp. 93-156.
- with Jean-Claude Pressac : The Machinery of Mass Murder at Auschwitz. In: Yisrael Gutman, Michael Berenbaum (eds.): Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp. Indiana University Press, Bloomington IN 1994, ISBN 0-253-32684-2 , pp. 183-245.
- with Debórah Dwork : Auschwitz, 1270 to the present. Yale University Press, New Haven CT et al. 1996, ISBN 0-300-06755-0 (In German: Auschwitz. From 1270 to today. Pendo, Zurich et al. 1998, ISBN 3-85842-334-3 ).
- The case for Auschwitz. Evidence from the Irving Trial. Indiana University Press, Bloomington IN et al. 2002, ISBN 0-253-34016-0 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Robert Jan van Pelt in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pelt, Robert Jan van |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pelt, Robert-Jan van |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch architectural historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 15th August 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Haarlem , the Netherlands |