Thomas Kroll

Thomas Kroll (* 1965 ) is a German historian with a focus on comparative social, political and intellectual history from the 18th to the 20th century.

Life

Between 1986 and 1992 Kroll studied history , social science and Protestant theology at the universities of Cologne , Bielefeld , Düsseldorf and Florence . He obtained his Magister Artium in Cologne in 1992. In the following years he worked on the Max Weber Complete Edition in Düsseldorf until 1997 , before doing his doctorate on Tuscan aristocratic liberalism . From 1998 to 2001 he worked at the German Historical Institute in Rome . Until 2003 he was a lecturer at the Historical Institute of the University of Salzburg and then until 2007 as a member of a DFG project on Werner Sombart at the University of Gießen . In 2005 he completed his habilitation thesis on Western European communist intellectuals. A year later he received the Venia legendi for the subject of modern and contemporary history in Giessen.

In the 2007 summer semester, Kroll was appointed Professor of Western European History at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena . He gave his inaugural lecture in 2009 on Western European social historians .

Fonts

• The revolt of the patriciate. The Tuscan aristocratic liberalism in the Risorgimento. Niemeyer, Tübingen 1999, ISBN 3-484-82090-X . (Dissertation, Düsseldorf, 1997).
• Communist intellectuals in Western Europe. France, Austria, Italy and Great Britain in comparison (1945–1956). Böhlau, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-412-10806-9 . (Habilitation thesis, Gießen, 2005/06).

Web links

• Literature by and about Thomas Kroll in the catalog of the German National Library
• Thomas Kroll on the website of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena