Thomas Bohn (historian)

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Thomas M. Bohn (born December 28, 1963 in Hanover ) is a German historian . Since 2009 he has been teaching as professor for Eastern European history at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen .

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Thomas Bohn studied Middle and Modern History as well as Slavic Studies from 1985 to 1991 at the University of Hamburg . From 1992 to 1995 he was a research assistant at the Chair for Modern Eastern European History at the University of Hamburg. Bohn received his doctorate in 1996 under Norbert Angermann at the History Seminar in Hamburg with a thesis on the historian Pavel N. Miljukov and the Moscow School. From 1995 to 2007 he was a research assistant or assistant at the chair for Eastern European History at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena . In 2004 he completed his habilitation on the reconstruction of the Belarusian capital Minsk after the Second World War. This was followed by substitute professorships for the history of Eastern Europe at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich (LMU) (2005/06) and at the European University Viadrina (2006). From 2007 to 2009 Bohn was professor at the LMU Munich for the history of Eastern Europe with a focus on the history of Eastern Central Europe. Bohn has been teaching as Professor of Eastern European History at the Justus Liebig University in Gießen since 2009 . Bohn is a member of the German Society for East European Studies , the Johann Gottfried Herder Research Council , the South East European Society and the Association of Historians in Germany . He is editor of the series "Historical Belarus Studies". Since 2018 he has been the spokesman for the Belarusian-German History Commission.

His main research interests are the history of historiography and cultures of remembrance, urban history and urbanization research, superstition and vampirism as well as Belarusian history and everyday life in the Soviet Union. His Hamburg dissertation was awarded the Fritz Theodor Epstein Prize of the Association of Eastern European Historians in 1998. Together with Dietmar Neutatz , he published the second volume of the Study Guide for Eastern Europe , which relates to the history of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union . With Albert Weber, Adrian Gheorghe and Christof Paulus, he edited the three-volume Corpus Draculianum, a documentation on Vlad Ţepeş Drăculea . The aim of the edition is to make the letters, documents and narratives on life and rulership, which have been preserved in a total of 17 European and Oriental languages, accessible to a broad public through critical editions, translations and commentaries. The series is to come to a close in 2021 with a volume about the tradition from Western and Southeastern Europe and the Moscow Empire. He published a monograph on the European vampire myth in 2016.

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Monographs

  • Russian history from 1880 to 1905. Pavel N. Miljukov and the Moscow School (= contributions to the history of Eastern Europe. Vol. 25). Böhlau, Cologne et al. 1998, ISBN 3-412-12897-X (At the same time: Hamburg, Universität, Dissertation, 1996; in Russian and Cyrillic script: Томас М. Бон: Русская историческая наука. 1880 г. – 1905 Пиков Милюков и Московская школа. Олеариус Пресс, Санкт-Петербург 2005, ISBN 5-901603-05-2 ).
  • Minsk - model city of socialism. Town planning and urbanization in the Soviet Union after 1945 (= Industrial World. Vol. 74). Böhlau, Cologne et al 2008, ISBN 978-3-412-20071-8 (also in Russian: Томас М. Бон: "Минский феномен" Городское планирование и урбанизация в Советском Союзе После Второй мировой войны ... РОССПЭН, Москва, 2013, ISBN 978-5-8243-1751-0 ).
  • The Vampire. A European myth. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2016. ISBN 978-3-412-50180-8 (Also in English: The Vampire. Origins of a European Myth. Translated from the German by Francis Ipgrave. Berghahn, New York et al. 2019, ISBN 978-1- 78920-292-2 ).
  • with Aliaksandr Dalhouski, Markus Krzoska: Wisent wilderness and world heritage. History of the Polish-Belarusian National Park of Białowieża. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2017, ISBN 978-3-412-50943-9 .

Source editions

  • with Adrian Gheorghe, Albert Weber: Corpus Draculianum documents and chronicles on the Wallachian prince Vlad the Impaler 1448–1650. Edited by Adrian Gheorghe and Albert Weber. Vol. 3: The tradition from the Ottoman Empire. Post-Byzantine and Ottoman authors. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2013, ISBN 978-3-447-06989-2 .
  • with Adrian Gheorghe, Christof Paulus, Albert Weber: Corpus Draculianum. Documents and chronicles about the Wallachian prince Vlad the Impaler 1448-1650. Volume 1: Letters and Certificates. Part 1: The tradition from Wallachia. Edited by Albert Weber and Adrian Gheorghe. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2017, ISBN 3-447-10212-8 . Part 2: The tradition from Hungary, Central Europe and the Mediterranean. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2018, ISBN 978-3-447-10628-3 .

Editorships

  • with Dietmar Neutatz: Study Guide Eastern Europe. Vol. 2: Russian Empire and Soviet Union. Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2002. 2nd revised and updated edition 2009. ISBN 978-3-412-20173-9 .
  • with Victor Shadurski: A white spot in Europe ... The imagination of Belarus as a contact zone between East and West. transcript, Bielefeld 2011, ISBN 978-3-8376-1897-6 .
  • with Rayk Einax, Julian Mühlbauer: Colorful spots in Belarus. Places of remembrance between the Polish-Lithuanian Union and the Russian-Soviet empire. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2013, ISBN 978-3-447-10067-0 .
  • with Rayk Einax, Stefan Rohdewald: Vlad the Impaler - Dracula. Tyrant or tribune of the people . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2017, ISBN 978-3-447-10730-3 .
  • with Kirsten von Hagen: The Vampire Myth - Snappy Readings. Romanistischer Verlag, Bonn 2018, ISBN 978-3-86143-218-0 .

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Remarks

  1. ↑ See the review by Florian Kührer-Wielach in: Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas 66, 2018, pp. 684–686 ( online )
personal data
SURNAME Bohn, Thomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bohn, Thomas M.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover