Wolfgang Schwentker

Wolfgang Schwentker (born August 13, 1953 in Oberhausen ) is a German historian. He has been a professor at the Institute for Comparative Civilization Studies at Osaka University since 2002 . His research areas include the comparative history of ideas and social history, the history of Japan , the cultural contacts between Japan and Europe (especially Germany) and the work of Max Weber .

Schwentker studied history, German literature and philosophy at the University of Düsseldorf and the University of Bonn from 1973 . After graduating in 1979, he worked on the Max Weber Complete Edition at the Department of History at the University of Düsseldorf. In 1985 he worked for a short time at the German Historical Institute in London . In 1986 he received his doctorate from the University of Düsseldorf with a dissertation on German conservatism in the revolution of 1848/49 . From 1986 to 1996 he worked as a research assistant at the Seminar for Modern History in Düsseldorf. From 1989 to 1991 he was a visiting researcher at Rikkyō University in Tōkyō and 1991/92 Visiting Research Fellow at St Antony's College , Oxford. In 1996 he qualified as a professor at the University of Düsseldorf with the text "Max Weber in Japan". He then taught as a visiting professor at the Fern-Universität Hagen and at the universities in Essen , Bielefeld and Prague . He was also a visiting researcher at the University of Vienna (2002) and at the Cultural Studies College at the University of Konstanz (2009/2010).

Since 2012 Schwentker is with Jörg fish and Wilfried nipples the New Fischer world history out. He is a member of the editorial board of the journals Max Weber Studies (London) and International Political Anthropology (Cambridge) as well as co-editor of the series Globalgeschichte und Entwicklungspolitik (Vienna) and Expansion ・ Interaction ・ Acculturation - Globalhistorische Sketches (Vienna).

Fonts

• Conservative associations and revolution in Prussia 1848/49. The constitution of conservatism as a party. Droste, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-7700-5147-5 (also: Düsseldorf, University, dissertation, 1985/1986).
• Max Weber in Japan. An investigation into the history of effects 1905–1995. JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck), Tübingen 1998, ISBN 3-16-146806-6 (also: Düsseldorf, Universität, Habilitation-Schrift, 1996; in Japanese language and script: マ ッ ク ス · ウ ェ ー バ ー の 日本. 受 容 史 の 研究 1905–1995 . み す ず 書房, 東京 文 京 区 2013, ISBN 978-4-622-07709-1 ).
• The Samurai (= Beck series. 2188 CH Beck Knowledge ). Beck, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-406-47988-X (4th, revised edition 2019, ISBN 978-3-406-73852-4 ; in Spanish: Los samuráis (= El libro de bolsillo. 4244, Humanidades. Historia ). Alianza Editorial, Madrid 2006, ISBN 84-206-6000-0 ).
• as editor of: Max Weber: On the reorganization of Germany. Writings and speeches. 1918–1920 (= Max Weber: Complete Edition. Dept. 1: Writings and Speeches. Vol. 16). JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck), Tübingen 1988, ISBN 3-16-845053-7 .
• as editor with Wolfgang J. Mommsen : Max Weber and his contemporaries (= publications of the German Historical Institute London. Vol. 21). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen et al. 1988, ISBN 3-525-36306-0 .
• as editor with Wolfgang J. Mommsen: Max Weber and modern Japan. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1999, ISBN 3-525-36241-2 .
• as editor with Peter Feldbauer, Michael Mitterauer : The “premodern” city. Asia and Europe in comparison (= cross-sections. 10). Verlag für Geschichte und Politik, among others, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-7028-0393-9 .
• as editor with Christoph Cornelißen and Lutz Klinkhammer : Cultures of Remembrance. Germany, Italy and Japan since 1945 (= Fischer. 15219, The time of National Socialism. ). Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-596-15219-4 (2nd edition, ibid. 2004, ISBN 3-596-15219-4 ).
• as editor with Margarete Grandner, Dietmar Rothermund : Globalisierung und Globalgeschichte (= global history and development policy. 1). Mandelbaum, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-85476-175-9 .
• as editor: Megacities in the 20th century. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-525-36296-X (2nd edition, ibid 2009, ISBN 978-3-525-36296-9 ).
• as editor with Sven Saaler: The Power of Memory in Modern Japan. Global Oriental, Folkestone 2008, ISBN 978-1-905246-38-0 .
• as editor with Hiroyuki Kimura: Tokuzō Fukuda, letters to Lujo Brentano, 1898–1930. Iudicium, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-89129-916-6 .

Web links

• Official homepage of Wolfgang Schwentker