Wolfgang Weber (historian)

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Wolfgang Eduard Josef Weber (born 28 July 1950) is a German historian. He is the director and executive scientific secretary of the Institute for European Cultural History at the University of Augsburg and a professor of modern and contemporary history, especially European cultural history.

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Life

Born in Freiburg im Breisgau, Weber went to primary schools and to the Humanist Berthold-Gymnasium Freiburg  [ de ], passed his Abitur in 1970 and, after completing his military service, studied history, political science and social science at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg from 1972. Following his teacher training examination in 1977, he initially received a doctoral scholarship and went to the University of Augsburg as a research assistant, where he received his doctorate in 1982. Weber habilitated in 1988 in modern and contemporary history.

After various substitute professorships and teaching assignments as well as a one-year visiting professorship at Emory University in Atlanta/Georgia, USA in 1990/1991, he took up his position at the University of Augsburg. [1]

In 2009, Weber was awarded the Pro Suebia prize in Ottobeuren for his initiative and successful acquisition of third-party funding for the preparation of a scholarly edition of the Augsburg Chronicle of Georg Kölderer (circa 1600). The prize, endowed with a total of 20,000 euros by the Dr. Eugen Liedl Stiftung zur Förderung der Erforschung der Bayerisch-Schwäbischen Landesgeschichte (Dr. Eugen Liedl Foundation for the Promotion of Research into Bavarian-Swabian Regional History), is awarded in equal parts to an outstanding scientific and an outstanding artistic achievement.

Research

Wolfgang E. J. Weber, who published under the name Wolfgang Weber until around 2000, has been a specialist in the social and cultural history of 19th and 20th century German Geschichtswissenschaft  [ de ] since his doctoral thesis. Since then, he has been working on political theory and the history of ideas of the 17th century from various perspectives, especially the Latin prints in this field. Other areas of research are the cultural history of princes and dynasties, the theories and methods of historical scholarship, university history and the history of the Middle East conflict.

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References

  1. Prof. Dr. Wolfgang E. J. Weber
  2. Für weitere Veröffentlichungen siehe das Publikationsverzeichnis by Wolfgang Weber auf seiner Homepage am Institut für Europäische Kulturgeschichte.