Jürgen Osterhammel
Jürgen Osterhammel (born 1952 in Wipperfürth, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German historian specialized in Chinese and world history. He is professor emeritus at the University of Konstanz.[1]
Academia
Osterhammel started his academic career as a research fee student at the
modern history
.
Two years later, Osterhammel started as a fellow at the
Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva before taking up the same position in the University of Konstanz (Germany) in 1999.[2] In 2001–2002, Osterhammel was a fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences.[3] In 2014, he was elected a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy.[4]
Other activities
- Volkswagen Foundation, Member of the Board of Trustees[5]
Awards
- In 2010, Osterhammel received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prizea program of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) for "exceptional scientists and academics for their outstanding achievements in the field of research."
- 2014: Sigmund Freud Prize
- 2017: Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts[6]
- In 2018, Osterhammel received the Balzan Prize for Global History "For his fundamental contribution to studies in global history and the definition of the discipline. For his method, which combines the rigour of empirical research while opening onto wide perspectives in an admirably balanced way, both through comparison and through the study of interconnected histories. For his elegant, fascinating style of writing."
Areas of Research
- Colonialism
- Eurasian history since the 18th century
- History and theory of historiography
- World or global history
Bibliography
- Mommsen, Wolfgang J.; Osterhammel, Jürgen; German Historical Institute in London (1987). Max Weber and his Contemporaries. London: Allen & Unwin. OCLC 13794249.
- Osterhammel, Jürgen (Spring 2003). "In search of a Nineteenth Century". Bulletin of the German Historical Institute. 32: 9–28.
- —— (2005). Colonialism: A Theoretical Overview. Princeton: Markus Wiener Publishers. OCLC 56608067.
- —— (2005). Globalization: A Short History. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press. OCLC 57068352.
- —— (2014). The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century. Princeton: Princeton University Press. OCLC 850909580.
- Jansen, Jan C.; Osterhammel, Jürgen; Riemer, Jeremiah (2017). Decolonization: A Short History. Princeton. )
- Osterhammel, Jürgen (2018). Unfabling the East: The Enlightenment's Encounter with Asia. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. OCLC 1031214281.
- Huber, Valeska; Osterhammel, Jürgen; German Historical Institute in London (2020). Global Publics: Their Power and their Limits, 1870-1990. New York. OCLC 1139889294.)
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References
- ^ "Professor Jürgen Osterhammel | Professor emeritus Dr. Dr. h.c. Jürgen Osterhammel | History". www.geschichte.uni-konstanz.de. Retrieved 2 February 2022.
- ^ ASEN, "Conference Speaker Biographies", http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/ASEN/Conference%20Speaker%20Bios.html
- ^ NIAS. Former Fellows: Biographies, "J.K. Osterhammel". http://www.nias.knaw.nl/Pages/NIA/20/212.bGFuZz1FTkc.html Archived 30 September 2011 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "British Academy announces 42 new fellows". Times Higher Education. 18 July 2014. Retrieved 18 July 2014.
- ^ Board of Trustees Volkswagen Foundation, Hannover.
- ^ "Pour le Mérite: Jürgen Osterhammel". www.orden-pourlemerite.de. 2018. Retrieved 27 October 2018.