Werner E. Mosse

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Werner Eugen Emil Mosse (born February 5, 1918 in Berlin ; † April 30, 2001 ) was a British historian of German origin.

Life

Mosse was the great cousin of the historian George L. Mosse . The Berlin newspaper publisher Rudolf Mosse was his great-uncle. He grew up in a German-Jewish upper-class family in Charlottenburg and Stangenhagen . In 1933 his parents sent him to the safe UK together with his two younger siblings; the father died in the spring of 1933 on the way to the concentration camp , allegedly by suicide . Mosse attended St Paul's School in West Kensington and began studying history at Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge in 1936 (until 1939). From 1940, first as a German citizen until 1941 interned , he served after his naturalization to 1946 in the Royal Pioneer Corps of the British Army , most recently in rank of Captain (captain).

From 1948 to 1952 he was a lecturer in modern Russian history at the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies and received his Ph.D. in 1950 from Herbert Butterfield. PhD. From 1952 to 1964 Senior Lecturer in Eastern European History at the University of Glasgow , he has since been Professor of European History at the University of East Anglia in Norwich and thus one of its founding fathers. He was a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society .

Mosse initially dealt primarily with Russian and Soviet history, the history of the European bourgeoisie in the 19th century from a cross-national perspective and the history of liberalism . Only later did he turn intensively to the history of German Jewry in the 19th and 20th centuries, especially the economic elite from which he himself came. For many years he served as chairman of the advisory board of the Leo Baeck Institute in London and was the editor of important anthologies on recent German-Jewish history.

In 2002, in memory of her brother, Barbara Mosse donated a postgraduate scholarship (Werner Mosse awards) to the School of History at the University of East Anglia.

Important publications

  • The European Powers and the German Question 1848-1871 , New York 1981 (first 1958), ISBN 0-374-95928-5 .
  • Alexander II and the Modernization of Russia , 2., ext. Ed., London 1992 (first 1958), ISBN 1-85043-512-X .
  • The Rise and Fall of the Crimean System 1855-1871 , London a. New York 1963.
  • (Ed.): Decision year 1932. On the Jewish question in the final phase of the Weimar Republic. An anthology (= series of scientific papers by the Leo Baeck Institute , vol. 13), 2nd, revised. u. exp. Ed., Tübingen 1966 (first 1965).
  • (Ed., With co. Arnold Paucker ): German Judaism in War and Revolution 1916 to 1923. An anthology (= series of scientific treatises of the Leo Baeck Institute , Vol. 25), Tübingen 1971, ISBN 3-16-831401-3 u. ISBN 3-16-831402-1 .
  • Liberal Europe. The Age of Bourgeois Realism 1848-1875 , London a. New York 1974, ISBN 0-500-33032-8 .
  • (Ed., With co-author of Arnold Paucker): Jews in Wilhelminian Germany 1890–1914. An anthology (= series of scientific papers by the Leo Baeck Institute , Vol. 33), 2nd, with a foreword, additional edition, Tübingen 1998 (first 1976), ISBN 3-16-147074-5 (first ISBN 3-16 -838792-4 ), therein pp. 57–113 Mosse's essay Die Juden in Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft .
  • (Ed.): Revolution and Evolution 1848 in German-Jewish History (= series of scientific papers by the Leo Baeck Institute , Vol. 39), Festschrift for Robert Weltsch , Tübingen 1981, ISBN 3-16-743752-9 .
  • Nobility and bourgeoisie in Europe in the 19th century , in: Jürgen Kocka (Ed.): Bürgerertum im 19. Jahrhundert , Vol. 2, Munich 1988, pp. 276-314, ISBN 3-423-04482-9 .
  • The German-Jewish Economic Elite 1820-1935. A Socio-cultural Profile , Oxford et al. New York 1989, ISBN 0-19-822990-9 .
  • (Ed., Together with Julius Carlebach ): Second Chance. Two Centuries of German-speaking Jews in the United Kingdom (= series of scientific papers by the Leo Baeck Institute , Vol. 48), Tübingen 1991, ISBN 3-16-145741-2 .
  • (Ed., Together with Hans Pohl ): Jewish entrepreneurs in Germany in the 19th and 20th centuries (= magazine for corporate history , Beih. 64), Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-515-05869-9 .
  • Introduction to: Albert u. Lina Mosse: Almost like my own country. Letters from Japan 1886–1889 , ed. by Shirô Ishii u. a., Munich 1995, ISBN 3-89129-273-2 .
  • An economic history of Russia 1856-1914 , London a. a. 1996, ISBN 1-85043-519-7 u. ISBN 1-86064-066-4 .

literature

  • Biographical handbook of German-speaking emigration after 1933 , ed. by Werner Röder u. Herbert A. Strauss , Vol. 2, T. 2, Munich a. a. 1983, p. 836, ISBN 3-598-10089-2 .
  • Elisabeth Kraus : The Mosse family. German-Jewish bourgeoisie in the 19th and 20th centuries , Munich 1999, ISBN 3-406-44694-9 .
  • Peter Pulzer : Obituary. Professor Werner Eugen Mosse, 1918–2001 , in: Rainer Liedtke u. David Rechter (Ed.): Towards normality? Acculturation and Modern German Jewry (= series of scientific treatises of the Leo-Baeck-Institut , vol. 68), Tübingen 2003, pp. V ff., ISBN 3-16-148127-5 .

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personal data
SURNAME Mosse, Werner E.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mosse, Werner Eugen Emil (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British historian of German origin
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH April 30, 2001