Wolfgang Geier (historian)

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Wolfgang Geier (* 1937 ) is a German historian.

Life

Geier studied philosophy, sociology and cultural history at the University of Jena and the University of Leipzig , where he completed his habilitation. From 1981 to 2000 he was a professor at the University of Leipzig. In 2000 he was appointed visiting professor at the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt , where he worked until 2015, where he helped to introduce the cultural studies course . In addition to the history of cultural perceptions and cultural studies, his research areas include the history of Eastern and Southeastern Europe, including in particular the social and cultural history of the Jews and Roma in Europe and the relations between Russia and Europe. He has also been involved at the adult education center in Leipzig since 1995 .

Wolfgang Geier was one of the founders of the Leipzig specialist journal Kultursoziologie and editor-in-chief until 2012.

He is a member of the Rosa Luxemburg Association and the Society for Cultural Sociology. In 2005 he co-founded the Wieser Encyclopedia of Eastern Europe (WEEO).

Publications (selection)

  • Southeastern Europe perceptions. Travel reports, studies and biographical sketches from the 16th to the 20th century. Wiesbaden 2006.
  • Russian cultural history in diplomatic travelogues from four centuries. Wiesbaden 2004.
  • Bulgaria between West and East from the 7th to the 20th century. Epochs, events and figures of significance in terms of social and cultural history. Wiesbaden 2001.
  • Time breaks in the east. Approaches to comparative social and cultural studies research. Wiesbaden 1995.
  • Viewpoints and results of the Marxist-Leninist dispute with bourgeois youth research in the FRG. A philosophical-sociological study. Leipzig 1979.
  • Youth clubs and socialist way of life. Leipzig 1977.
  • On some aspects of the role of socialist television in the increasing socialization of the art process. (Research paper). Berlin 1972.
  • East of the 15th longitude. Essays on the history of East Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe. Klagenfurt 2016 (= Wieser Encyclopedia of the European East. Volume 20/1).

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SURNAME Geier, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1937