Stefan Wiederkehr

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Stefan Wiederkehr (* 1969 in Zurich ) is a Swiss historian and librarian .

Life

Wiederkehr studied history, Russian linguistics and literature as well as philosophy at the University of Zurich and received his doctorate there in 2004/05 under Carsten Goehrke on a topic of Russian intellectual history. He completed his studies in library and information science at the Humboldt University in Berlin . From 2004 to 2009 he headed the library of the German Historical Institute in Warsaw . From there he moved to the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities , where from 2009 to 2014 he was also the director of the academy library and the head of the academy's project Annual Reports for German History . Since May 2014 he has been Head of Collections and Archives at the ETH Zurich Library .

His work on the Eurasian movement is called a scientific “ standard work ”.

Fonts (selection)

  • The Eurasian Movement. Science and politics in Russian emigration in the interwar period and in post-Soviet Russia (= contributions to the history of Eastern Europe . Vol. 39). Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2007, ISBN 978-3-412-33905-0 (also dissertation, University of Zurich, 2004/05).
  • with Rafael Ball (ed.): Networked knowledge. On-line. The library as a management task. Festschrift for Wolfram Neubauer on his 65th birthday . De Gruyter Saur, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-11-044154-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Alexander Höllwerth: Review of: Wiederkehr, Stefan: The Eurasian Movement. Science and Politics in Russian Emigration in the Interwar Period and in Post-Soviet Russia. Cologne 2007, in: H-Soz-Kult, August 16, 2008, < http://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/rezbuecher-11140 >.
  2. Martin Beisswenger on: Stefan Wiederkehr The Eurasian Movement. Science and Politics in Russian Emigration in the Interwar Period and in Post-Soviet Russia. Böhlau Verlag Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 2007 = contributions to the history of Eastern Europe. ISBN 978-3-412-33905-0 , in: http://www.dokumente.ios-regensburg.de/JGO/Rez/Beisswenger_Wiederkehr_Eurasische_Bewendung.html .