Hajo Holborn
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Hajo Holborn (18 May 1902,
Early life
Hajo Holborn was born the son of
Emigration
Unwilling to participate in
He taught Diplomatic History at
Postwar
After the war, he served as Randolph W. Townsend Professor at Yale until 1959, when he was awarded the title of Sterling Professor of History at Yale University; here he continued to teach and write until his death in 1969.[1]
In 1967, Holborn became the second president of the American Historical Association not born in the United States (after Mikhail Rostovtzeff).[2] Several specialists of German and European history in America, including Peter Gay, were students of Holborn.
Family
Hajo Holborn married Annemarie Bettmann. Their son, Fred Holborn (born 1928), was a senior adjunct professor of American Foreign Policy at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University before his death in 2005.[citation needed]
Their daughter,
Work
Prior to his emigration, Holborn was commissioned by the government to compose a history of the constitution of the Weimar Republic, resulting in the work The Weimar Republic and the Birth of the German Democratic Party: The Hajo Holborn Papers, 1849–1956.
Other works by Holborn include the History of Modern Germany series, spanning three volumes and covering a four-century period from the Reformation and culminating in the capitulation of Hitler's regime in 1945. Holborn's work has been praised by peers, including Fritz Stern.
References
- ^ ISBN 978-0-521-55833-4.
- ^ Wegener, Jens (2012). ""An Organisation, European in Character"—European Agency and American Control at the Centre Européen, 1925–1940". In Kriege, John; Rausch, Helke (eds.). American Foundations and the Coproduction of World Order in the Twentieth Century. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. p. 60.
- ISBN 978-0-691-17918-6.
External links
- Hajo Holborn papers (MS 579). Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library. [1]