Karl Schweizer | |
|---|---|
| Born | |
| Awards | Adèle Mellen Prize (1989) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Wilfrid Laurier University(BA) University of Waterloo (MA) University of Cambridge (PhD) |
| Thesis | Frederick the Great, William Pitt and Lord Bute: The Origin, Development and Dissolution of the Anglo-Prussian Alliance, 1756–63 (1976) |
| Academic advisors | Herbert Butterfield |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | History |
| Sub-discipline | 18th-century European history |
| Institutions | New Jersey Institute of Technology Rutgers University |
Karl Wolfgang Schweizer FRSA FRHistS [ citation needed ] is a historian specialising in eighteenth century European history.
Schweizer was born in Germany and was educated at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo,Ontario,Canada,where he graduated with a BA in 1969,and in 1970 he earned his MA at the University of Waterloo. In 1976,he was awarded a PhD from the University of Cambridge, [1] where he studied with Herbert Butterfield. [2] His doctoral dissertation was titled "Frederick the Great,William Pitt and Lord Bute:The Origin,Development and Dissolution of the Anglo-Prussian Alliance,1756–63". [3]
In 1988,Schweizer was appointed chairman of the Humanities Department at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT),a post he held until 1993 and again during 2001–2003. [1] Since 2000,he has been professor of history at the NJIT/Rutgers Federated History Department. [1] In 1994,he was appointed a member of the Graduate School,Rutgers University. [2]
Jeremy Black has said that among those interested in eighteenth century European international relations,Schweizer "has a deservedly high reputation for a number of judicious and important monographs' [3] In 2020,Schweizer was awarded the 2020 CSLA Lifetime Achievement Award from the College of Science and Liberal Arts,New Jersey Institute of Technology. [1] He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society,the Royal Society of Arts and the New York Academy of Sciences. [2] [ dead link ] He has also been awarded the Congressional Order of Merit,USA,isa member of the Republican congressional committee and has held fellowships/visiting appointments at Princeton,Cambridge,Yale and the London School of Economics. Moreover,Dr Schweizer is,a Senior Fellow of the Foreign Policy Research Institute,Philadelphia,PA. He has won numerous literary awards for his work,including the Adèle Mellen Prize (1989 and 2016)and the NEW Jersey"s Writer Conference AWARD(1994).
Editor,Studies in History and politics/Etudes d"Histoire et politiques(1980-1989)
As well as over 300articles/reviews in scholarly journals and reference works.
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