Winfried Baumgart

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Winfried Baumgart (born 29 September 1938) is a German historian. [1] His work has a particular focus on German history during the nineteenth century and the opening decades of the twentieth century. [1] His bibliographical directory of Germany history, [2] which first appeared in 1971, proved sufficiently popular to reach 16 editions by 2006. [3]

Life

Winfried Baumgart was born in Streckenbach, a hamlet then administered as part of Jauer in the Lower Silesian countryside to the west of Breslau. His father was a railway official. When he was 6 his family were caught up in the ethnic cleansing that was a feature of the times, and he fled with his two brothers to the Oldenburg region in the northwest of the British zone. Here he grew up. [1]

Between 1958 and 1963 he studied History and Anglistics at Saarland University in Saarbrücken. The course included a year abroad, which in Baumgart's case was divided between Edinburgh and Geneva. His ambition at his point was to become a secondary school teacher. [1] At the same time he worked for and obtained a qualification as a simultaneous translator (English, French, Russian, German). [4] However, after he was offered a job as a research assistant at the university, he decided to set aside his earlier ambitions, and instead pursue an academic career. [1] He received his doctorate at Saarbrücken in 1965, for a dissertation entitled "German Eastern policy in the Summer of 1918. Between Brest-Litovsk and Compiègne" ("Deutsche Ostpolitik im Sommer 1918. Zwischen Brest-Litowsk und Compiègne"). The doctorate was supervised by Konrad Repgen. [5] Habilitation followed, from Bonn, in 1971, with a piece of research entitled "The Peace of Paris 1856. Studies of the relationship between waging war, politics, and the peace movement" ("Der Friede von Paris 1856. Studien zum Verhältnis von Kriegführung, Politik und Friedensbewegung"). Between 1966 and 1970 he supported himself as a research assistant at Saarland University, transferring to Bonn in 1970. In 1971 he became a visiting professor in history at the University of Bonn. Two years later, in 1973, he obtained a full professorship in Medieval and Modern History at Mainz. Here he has built a reputation for research that has covered, in particular, Frederick the Great, Clausewitz, Moltke and Bismarck. [1] He also took various visiting and guest professorships including Georgetown University (1977/78), New Sorbonne (1988/89), Glasgow (1990/91) and Riga (1993). He has been retired since 2003.


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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Konrad Fuchs (October 2013). "Weit ueber die Grenzen Deutschlands geehrte .... Ende September konnte der Mainzer Historiker Prof. Dr. Winfried Baumgart seinen 75. Geburtstag feiern". Schlesischer Kulturspiegel. Stiftung Kulturwerk Schlesien, Würzburg. p. 57. Retrieved 31 July 2016.
  2. ↑ Winfried Baumgart: Bücherverzeichnis zur deutschen Geschichte ... Hilfsmittel · Handbücher · Quellen ... 16., korrigierte Auflage (PDF). Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag. March 2006. ISBN   978-3-423-34043-4 . Retrieved 31 July 2016.
  3. ↑ "Internationale Beziehungen im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Festschrift für Winfried Baumgart (summary review)". Univ.-Prof. Dr. Gerhard Köbler i.A. Universität Innsbruck. Retrieved 31 July 2016.
  4. ↑ "Winfried Baumgart Professor für Neueste Geschichte am Historischen Seminar IV der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität". Zur Geschichte des Krimkriegs, Eine Edition historischer Quellen. Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (Forschungsmagazin). p. 42.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help) - a couple of biographical paragraphs about the author, accompanying his essay on the Crimean War and sources on it
  5. ↑ Winfried Baumgart: Deutsche Ostpolitik 1918. Von Brest-Litowsk bis zum Ende des Ersten Weltkrieges. Wien 1966, p. 11.
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