Urs Altermatt

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Urs Altermatt (1988)

Urs Altermatt (born July 18, 1942 in Biberist ) is a Swiss historian . From 1980 to 2010 he was a full professor for contemporary history at the University of Freiburg . From 2003 to 2007 he was the rector of this bilingual university .

Life and research

Altermatt comes from a family close to the Christian Democratic People's Party. He studied history, sociology and political science in Bern , Freiburg and Berlin , he completed in 1970 with the promotion of Dr. phil. at the University of Bern . From 1973 to 1980 he was a lecturer at the University of Bern and has since been a professor in Freiburg. Guest lectureships and research stays have taken him to Harvard , Vienna , Budapest , Cracow , Sarajevo , Sofia and Leuven .

Altermatt's research focuses on the political system in Switzerland , culture , religion and society as well as minorities , nationalism , anti-Semitism and right-wing extremism .

In 2002 it was published under the title “Nation and Nationalism in Europe. Cultural construction of identities »a commemorative publication on his 60th birthday with contributions by Emil Brix , Erhard Busek , Moritz Csáky , Georg Kreis , Adam Michnik and others. Further commemorative publications were published in 2010 on retirement and in 2017 on his 75th birthday.

In 1991, Altermatt published the standard work “The Swiss Federal Councils”, which appeared in a new version in 2019. He commented on the Federal Council elections for Swiss television .

From 1990 to 2000 he worked for the Swiss cultural foundation Pro Helvetia . He was a member of the Commission for Contemporary History and the International Cultural Center . Altermatt was appointed by the Swiss government as President of the Jubilee Commission for the 700th anniversary of the Swiss Confederation. He was on the advisory board of the Munich journal Historisches Jahrbuch , the Österreichische Osthefte and the magazine for contemporary church history . He was editor-in-chief of the journal for Swiss church history . In 1995 he co-authored the right-wing extremism report for the Swiss government.

Altermatt has been a member of the Swiss Student Union since 1961 and is a member of the GV Wikinger Immensee , AV Berchtoldia Bern and honorary philistine of the AV Fryburgia and AKV Neu-Romania Freiburg . In 1968 he headed the association as Central President.

He lives with his wife in Solothurn , the couple has three grown children.

Fonts (selection)

  • The way of the Swiss Catholics into the ghetto. The history of the origins of the national popular organizations in Swiss Catholicism 1848–1919. Benziger, Zurich 1972, ISBN 3-545-25031-8 (3rd revised edition. (= Religion, Politics, Society in Switzerland. Vol. 13)). Universitäts-Verlag, Freiburg 1995, ISBN 3-7278-0968-X , Simultaneously: Bern, Diss., 1970: The long way of the Swiss Catholics to national popular organizations.
  • Catholicism and Modernity. On the social and mental history of Swiss Catholics in the 19th and 20th centuries. Benziger, Zurich 1989, ISBN 3-545-25076-8 .
  • as editor: The Swiss Federal Councilors. A biographical lexicon. Artemis and Winkler, Zurich 1991, ISBN 3-7608-0702-X ; updated new edition: The Federal Council Lexicon . NZZ Libro, Zurich 2019, ISBN 978-3-03810-218-2 ( preview ).
  • as editor with Hanspeter Kriesi: Right-wing extremism in Switzerland. Organizations and radicalization in the 1980s and 1990s. Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zurich 1995, ISBN 3-85823-562-8 .
  • The Sarajevo Fanal. Ethnonationalism in Europe. Schöningh, Paderborn 1996, ISBN 3-506-70406-0 .
  • as editor with Emil Brix : Switzerland and Austria. A neighborhood in Central Europe (= book series of the Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe. Vol. 1). Böhlau, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-205-98340-8 .
  • Nation, ethnicity and state in Central Europe (= book series by the Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe. Vol. 4). Böhlau, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-205-98544-3 .
  • Language and Nation (= Freiburg University Speeches . NF Vol. 53). Lecture on the occasion of the Dies academicus 1996. Universitäts-Verlag, Freiburg 1997, ISBN 3-7278-1118-8 .
  • Catholicism and Anti-Semitism. Mentalities, continuities, ambivalences. On the cultural history of Switzerland 1918–1945. Huber, Frauenfeld 1999, ISBN 3-7193-1160-0 .
  • as editor: Katholische Denk- und Lebenswelten. Contributions to the cultural and social history of Swiss Catholicism in the 20th century. Academic Press, Freiburg 2003, ISBN 3-7278-1427-6 .
  • The University of Freiburg in search of identity. Essays on the cultural and social history of the University of Freiburg in the 19th and 20th centuries. Academic Press, Freiburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-7278-1600-0 (= Religion, Politics, Society in Switzerland , Volume 50).
  • The CVP's ​​historical dilemma: between the Catholic milieu and the middle-class middle party. Hier + Jetzt, Baden 2012, ISBN 978-3-03919-254-0 .
  • as editor: Studies on Contemporary History. Huber Verlag, series of publications since 2001.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.nzz.ch/schweiz/das-dilemma-der-cvp-im-nachhinein-war-das-c-ein- Fehler- ld.1571938
  2. ↑ Catherine Bosshart-Pfluger, Joseph Jung , Franziska Metzger (eds.): Nation and Nationalism in Europe. Cultural construction of identities. Festschrift for Urs Altermatt. Huber, Frauenfeld et al. 2002, ISBN 3-7193-1299-2 (with Bibliography Altermatt).
  3. ↑ Franziska Metzger, Markus Furrer (Ed.): Religion, Politics, Society in Focus. Contributions to the retirement of the contemporary historian Urs Altermatt. Academic Press, Freiburg i. Üe. 2010, ISBN 978-3-7278-1684-0 .
  4. ↑ Josef Inauen, Franziska Metzger, Markus Furrer (ed.): History and profession. A commemorative publication for Urs Altermatt by his former students. LIT, Vienna / Zurich 2017 (= history and education, 7), ISBN 978-3-643-80259-0 .
  5. ↑ a b Thomas Widmer: "It also needs the quiet creators". Interview in: Schweizer Familie , March 1, 2019.
  6. ↑ Anti-Judaism and its extensions. The syndrome of Catholic anti-Semitism , Urs Altermatt in NZZ , November 20, 1999.
personal data
SURNAME Altermatt, Urs
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Beaverist