Tim Blanning

Timothy Charles William Blanning , FBA , (born April 21, 1942 ) is a British historian.

Life

Tim Blanning attended King's School in Bruton and then studied at Sidney Sussex College , Cambridge, where he received his doctorate in 1967. In 1972 he was hired as an assistant lecturer at the University of Cambridge . He was appointed lecturer in 1976 and reader in 1987, and finally professor in 1992. Until his retirement in 2009 he taught modern European history.

In 1974 Blanning published a study on the history of the city of Mainz in the 18th century up to the Mainz republic . His second book, The French Revolution in Germany: Occupation and Resistance in the Rhineland, 1792-1802 , published in 1983, also dealt with this period. About the French Revolution and his third book was The Origins of the French Revolutionary Wars (1986). In 1994 he published a biography of Emperor Joseph II. Several cultural and historical works followed. Further biographies dealt with Frederick the Great in 2015 and George I.

Blanning was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA) in 1990. Blanning received a Doctor of Letters from the University of Cambridge in 1998 . In 2016 he was awarded the British Academy Medal for his book about Frederick the Great .

Fonts (selection)

TCW Blanning (1995)

Tim Blanning: Frederick the Great (2015)

• Joseph II and Enlightened Despotism . London: Longman, 1970
• Reform and Revolution in Mainz, 1743–1803 . London: Cambridge University Press, 1974
• The French Revolution in Germany: Occupation and Resistance in the Rhineland, 1792-1802 . Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983
• The Origins of the French Revolutionary Wars . London: Longman, 1986
• The French Revolution: Aristocrats versus Bourgeois? . London: Macmillan, 1987
• Joseph II and enlightened despotism . London: Longman, 1994
• The French Revolutionary Wars 1787-1802 . Edward Arnold, 1996
• The French Revolution: Class War or Culture Clash? London: Macmillan, 1997
• The Culture of Power and the Power of Culture: Old Regime Europe, 1660-1789 . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002
  • Old Europe: 1660 - 1789. Culture of power and power of culture . Translation of Monika Carbe. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2006 ISBN 978-3-534-18819-2
• The Pursuit of Glory: Europe 1648-1815 . London: Penguin, 2007
• The Triumph of Music: The Rise of Composers, Musicians and Their Art . 2008
  • Triumph of music: from Bach to Bono . Translation of Yvonne Badal. Munich: Bertelsmann, 2010 ISBN 978-3-570-58012-7
• The Romantic Revolution: A History . 2011
• Frederick the Great: King of Prussia . London: Allen Lane, 2015
  • Frederick the Great - King of Prussia - a biography. Translation from English Andreas Nohl. Beck, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-406-71832-8
• George I: The Lucky King . London: Allen Lane, 2017

editor

• The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern Europe . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996
• The Rise and Fall of the French Revolution . Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1996
• with David Cannadine (Ed.): History and Biography: Essays in Honor of Derek Beales Cambridge, 1996
• with Peter Wende (Ed.): Reform in Great Britain and Germany, 1750-1850 . Oxford, 1999
• The Short Oxford History of Europe, vol. 8: The Eighteenth Century . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000
• The Short Oxford History of Europe, vol. 9: The Nineteenth Century . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000
• The Oxford History of Modern Europe . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000
• with Hagen Schulze (Ed.): Unity and Diversity in European Culture c. 1800 . Oxford, 2006

Web links

• Literature by and about Tim Blanning in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Tim Blanning in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Short biography and reviews of works by Tim Blanning at perlentaucher.de
• Tim Blanning , at University of Cambridge

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Professor Timothy Blanning FBA , at British Academy