Walter Rothholz (political scientist)

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Walter Rothholz (born April 7, 1943 in Asker , Norway ) is a political scientist and former professor at the Institute for Political and Communication Science at the University of Greifswald and at the Institute for Political Science and European Studies at the University of Stettin .

life and career

Walter Rothholz is a son of the lawyer Walter Rothholz , who came from Stettin and who emigrated to Norway in 1939, and the Norwegian Else Marie Bølling (1915–1976). His father was a Jew in concentration camp imprisonment in Norway from October 1942 to May 1945 and, as he lived in a mixed marriage, was not deported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp. Rothholz studied political science , Islamic studies , Jewish studies and religious studies at the universities of Munich , Vienna , Stockholm , Paris and Cairo . He is a student of Eric Voegelin . He taught at several foreign universities, for example in 2004 in Stanford / Cal.

From 1992 to 2008 he was Professor of Political Science at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald, where he helped set up the Institute for Political Science after reunification. He was also a private lecturer at the Free University of Berlin . At the suggestion of the Political Science Department there ( Otto Suhr Institute ), he was awarded the academic title of " Extraordinary Professor ".

In 2008 he became an associate professor at the University of Szczecin , where he taught at the Institute for Sociology until 2013, then at the Institute for Political Science and European Studies. The book “Politics and Religion. A brief introduction to the basic categories of their relationship ”(Instytut Politologii i Europejstyki Uniwersytetu Szczecinskiego, 2013). Since 2014 Rothholz has been a professor at the Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj in Cluj , Transylvania for several years .

Walter Rothholz dealt mainly with political culture and the relationship between politics and religion, as well as with the theory of the Nordic welfare state and recent Norwegian social history. Relevant publications include “The Political Culture of the Baltic Sea Region and Eastern Europe” (published in 2008 with St. Berglund) and “The Role of Mimesis in Political Philosophy and Anthropology. Notes on René Girard ”(published 2008). On the occasion of his 65th birthday, Petra Huse and Ingmar Dette dedicated a commemorative publication to Rothholz under the title “Adventure of the Spirit - Dimensions of the Political” (Baden-Baden 2008).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://fodb.uni-egoswald.de/professur.php?page=details&show=379&showyear=2013&showall=  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / fodb.uni-egoswald.de  
  2. ↑ http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~fupresse/FUN/1998/3-4-98/l8.htm
  3. ↑ http://www.whus.pl/files/whus/Pracownicy_IPiE_kontakt,_dyżury_-_sem_zim_2012-13_8.pdf
  4. ↑ [1] .
  5. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from April 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.phil.uni-greifswald.de
  6. ↑ http://www.shoeboxhouse-verlag.de/html-autoren/vita-rothholz.html
personal data
SURNAME Rothholz, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Asker , Norway