Timothy W. Ryback

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Timothy W. Ryback (* 1954 ) is Deputy Secretary General of the Académie Diplomatique Internationale (ADI) in Paris and co-founder of the Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation (IHJR) in The Hague . Before that he was director and vice-president of the Salzburg Global Seminar as well as a lecturer specializing in history and literature at Harvard University .

Ryback has published widely on European history, politics and culture, including in The Atlantic Monthly , The New Yorker and the New York Times .

He is the author of the widely acclaimed book The Last Survivor: Legacies of Dachau , which was published in 2000 and which was also published under the German title The Last Survivor: In Search of Alfred Numbersfeldt .

He also wrote the monograph Hitler's private library: the books that shaped his life , published in 2008 by Alfred A. Knopf . The book has appeared in more than two dozen editions worldwide, has received much recognition for the insights it provided into Hitler's life and personality, but has also been criticized for some inaccuracies and incompleteness of the consideration. Ian Kershaw has hailed the book as "elegantly written, meticulously researched, and fascinating".

Ryback is also internationally known for his account of the rock music scene in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, Rock Around the Bloc: A History of Rock Music in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union , published in 1989 by Oxford University Press , on the eve of the collapse of the Eastern Bloc .

Works (selection)

  • Timothy W. Ryback: Hitler's private library: the books that shaped his life . Knopf, New York 2008, ISBN 978-1-4000-4204-3 .
    • Timothy W. Ryback: Hitler's Books: His Library - His Thought. Translation by Heike Schlatterer. With a foreword by Norbert Frei . Fackelträger-Verl., Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-7716-4437-6 .
  • Timothy W. Ryback: The Last Survivor: In Search of Alfred Numbersfeldt . Siedler, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-88680-691-X .
  • Timothy W. Ryback: Rock around the bloc: a history of rock music in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union . Oxford Univ. Press, New York 1990, ISBN 0-19-505633-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Timothy Ryback's 'Hitler's Private Library' . In: New York Sun , 2008. Retrieved December 28, 2011. 
  2. ↑ Peter Conrad: Books that filled the Führer . In: The Observer , February 1, 2009. Retrieved December 28, 2011. 
  3. ↑ Simon Heffer: Hitler's Private Library: the Books that Shaped his Life by Timothy Ryback - review . In: Telegraph.co.uk , February 6, 2009. Retrieved December 28, 2011. 
  4. ↑ Hitler's Private Library by Timothy W. Ryback . In: The Complete Review . Retrieved December 28, 2011.
  5. ↑ Ian Kershaw: Timothy Ryback's 'Hitler's Private Library' . In: New York Sun , September 24, 2008. Retrieved December 28, 2011. 
personal data
SURNAME Ryback, Timothy W.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ryback, Timothy Wernig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian, publicist
DATE OF BIRTH 1954