Ulrich van der Heyden

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Ulrich van der Heyden (born September 7, 1954 in Ueckermünde ) is a German historian , political scientist and specialist in the colonial history of Africa and the history of Christian missions in Africa.

Life

Ulrich van der Heyden studied History and Asian Studies, earned his diploma in 1981 and in 1984 at the Humboldt University of Berlin Dr. phil. PhD . Van der Heyden was a research associate at the Academy of Sciences of the GDR from 1984 to 1991 and a research associate at the Center for the Modern Orient and at the Seminar for African Studies at Humboldt University from 1992 to 1994. In 1997 he also received his doctorate in political science at the Free University , where he worked from 2001 at the Otto Suhr Institute as a private lecturer at the Institute for Political Science and received his habilitation in 2002 .

Ulrich van der Heyden is a professor at the Otto Suhr Institute and a member of the Department of Mission and Religious Studies and Ecumenics at Humboldt University. He is the editor of several scientific book series as well as the author and editor of more than 30 monographs and the author of over 130 scientific studies.

Ulrich van der Heyden is first deputy chairman of the Berlin Society for Missionary History and lives in Berlin. He has been an elected member of the learned society Leibniz Society of Sciences in Berlin since 2005 .

Selected works

  • Battle for the prairie. The North American Prairie Indians' struggle for freedom. ( Illustrated historical booklets : Booklet 47), Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-326-00318-8 .
  • Red eagles on Africa's coast. The Brandenburg-Prussian colony Großfriedrichsburg in West Africa . Selignow, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-933889-04-9 .
  • The literature of the German mission societies as a source for the history of South Africa. Shown primarily on the basis of the Berlin Mission Society. In: Ulrich van der Heyden, Heike Liebau (ed.): Mission history, church history, world history. Christian missions in the context of national developments in Africa, Asia and Oceania. Steiner, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-515-06732-9 , pp. 123-138. ( Mission history archive. 1).
  • with Joachim Zeller (ed.): Colonial metropolis Berlin. A search for clues. Berlin-Edition, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-8148-0092-3 .
  • Was there any contact between the GDR and the apartheid regime in South Africa? Issues on the DDR history No. 88, Helle Panke, Berlin 2004
  • with Joachim Zeller (Ed.): Power and share in world domination. Berlin and German colonialism . Unrast Verlag, Münster 2005, ISBN 3-89771-024-2 .
  • Anton Wilhelm Amo, the African philosopher. In: Ulrich van der Heyden (ed.): Unknown biographies. Africans in German-speaking countries from the 18th century to the end of the Second World War (= Edition Zeitgeschichte. 26). Kai Homilius-Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-89706-849-0 .
  • The Dakar process. The beginning of the end of apartheid in South Africa . Solivagus Praeteritum, Kiel 2018, ISBN 978-3-947064-01-4 .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The last colonial wars of conquest in South Africa. The subjugation of the Pedi and Venda Transvaals in the years 1876 to 1898, mainly based on German-language sources. Dissertation to obtain the academic degree doctor philosophiae (Dr. phil.), Humboldt University Berlin.
  2. ↑ Prof. Dr. Dr. Dr. Ulrich van der Heyden
  3. ^ Review at FAZ.net on June 20, 2018, change through rapprochement
personal data
SURNAME Heyden, Ulrich van der
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian, political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 7th September 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Ueckermünde , GDR