Walther Kirchner

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Walther Kirchner (born May 18, 1905 in Berlin , † June 30, 2004 in Baltimore , Maryland ) was a German-American historian .

Life

The entrepreneur's son Walther Kirchner passed the Abitur at the French grammar school in his hometown Berlin in 1918 . Kirchner then completed an apprenticeship in his parents' trading company, for which he was deployed particularly in the Baltic Sea region. In 1926 his family sent him to the United States to gain business experience. Kirchner later took a job as a reporter for a German magazine. In the 1930s , Walther Kirchner turned to studying history at the University of California in Los Angeles , where he obtained his bachelor's and doctoral degrees. Walther Kirchner, who was appointed Lecturer in Modern European History in 1943, followed a call in 1945 as Assistant Professor of History at the University of Delaware in Newark in the north of the state of Delaware , in 1948 he was promoted to Associate Professor and in 1955 to Full Professor . Kirchner, who also taught as Visiting Professor of Russian History at the University of Pennsylvania from 1946 to 1950 and as Fulbright Professor at the University of Copenhagen from 1952 to 1953 , retired in 1970 . Walther Kirchner, who then moved to Baltimore, continued his research at Johns Hopkins University and the Enoch Pratt Free Library. Walther Kirchner, who was married to Frederica born Mosher (1915–1995), succumbed to cancer at the end of June 2004. Kirchner, who emerged in particular as an expert in Russian history, was a member of the American Historical Association , the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton and the Max Planck Institute at the Georg-August University in Göttingen .

Publications

  • together with Gustav Strohm: History of Russia from its beginnings to the present, Mittelbach, Stuttgart 1950.
  • A journey through Siberia in the eighteenth century: The journey of the Swiss doctor Jakob Fries, in: Volume 10 of publications by the Eastern European Institute Munich, Isar Verlag, Munich 1955.
  • Western civilization to 1500, in: College outline series, no.110., Barnes & Noble, New York 1960.
  • A history of Russia, 3d ed, in: College outline series, 66., Barnes & Noble, New York 1963.
  • Alba  : Spain's Iron Duke, Musterschmidt, Göttingen; Berlin; Frankfurt / M. 1963.
  • The Rise of the Baltic Question, Greenwood Pub Group Inc., Westport, Conn., New ed. Of 1954 ed., 1970, ISBN 978-0837130095 .
  • Some remarks on the sources for quantitative studies of the early modern times, in: Kölner Lectures on Social and Economic History, Issue 15., Research Institute for Social and Economic History at the University of Cologne, Cologne 1971.
  • Studies in Russian-American commerce 1820-1860, in: Studies on the History of Eastern Europe, 19th, Brill, Leiden 1975.
  • German industry and the industrialization of Russia, 1815-1914, Scripta Mercaturae Verlag, St. Katharinen, 1986, ISBN 3-922661-18-1 .
  • Continuity and change in trade between Russia and the West, in: Oulun Yliopiston Historian Laitoksen julkaisuja / Yleinen aate- ja oppihistoria., Historian Laitos, Oulu 1991.

literature

  • Werner Schuder (Hrsg.): Kürschner's German learned calendar . Volume 2., 10th edition, De Gruyter, Berlin 1966, pp. 1166, 1167.
  • Werner Schuder (Hrsg.): Kürschner's German learned calendar . Vol. 2, 13th edition. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1980, ISBN 3-110-07434-6 , pp. 1908, 1909.
  • Yearbooks for the History of Eastern Europe, Volume 52, Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart, 2004, p. 634.

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personal data
SURNAME Kirchner, Walther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH June 30, 2004
Place of death Baltimore , Maryland