Karl Schweizer
Karl Schweizer Adèle Mellen Prize (1989) | |
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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
Education and academic career
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]
Works
Books
- The Devonshire Diary: William Cavendish Fourth Duke of Devonshire, Memoranda on State of Affairs 1759–1762, edited with Peter Douglas Brown (London: Royal Historical Society, 1982).On Line publication:Cambridge University Press,2009.
- The Art of Diplomacy (Leicester University Press, 1983; distributed by Columbia University Press; paperback edition, UPA, 1993).
- Lord Bute: Essays in Re-Interpretation, editor (Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1988).
- England, Prussia, and the Seven Years' War (Adèle Mellen Prize(1989).
- Cobbett in his Times, with Leicester University Press, 1990).New Jersey Writers Conference Author Award,1994
- Frederick the Great, William Pitt, and Lord Bute, The Anglo-Prussian Alliance, 1756-1763 outstanding studies and dissertations(New York: Garland Publishing, 1991).Republished by Cambridge UniversityPress,2014.
- William Pitt, Earl of Chatham 1708–1778. A Bibliography (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1993).Choice Outstanding Academic Title,1993.
- Francois de Callieres: Diplomat and Man of Letters (Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 1995).
- Seeds Of Evil: The Gray-Snyder Murder Case (AuthorHouse, 2001).
- War, Politics and Diplomacy (Oxford, 2003).
- Statesmen, Diplomats and the Press: Essays on 18th Century Britain (Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 2003).
- Herbert Butterfield: Essays on the History of Science (Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 2005).
- Parliament and the Press 1688–1936, editor (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006).Literary Award,and silver medal,International Biographical Association,Cambridge:2007
- The International Thought of Herbert Butterfield, edited with Paul Sharp (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).
- The Seven Years War: A Transatlantic History, with M. Schumann (London: Routledge, 2008).
- Oligarchy, Dissent and the Culture of Print in Georgian Britain: Essays, Reviews, and Documents (Adèle Mellen Prize(2016).
- Ed., Diplomatic Thought,1648–1815 (Special Issue of Studies in History and Politics/Etudes D'Histoire et Politique; (Sherbrooke,1982).
- Ed. with introduction, Warfare and Tactics in the Eighteenth Century: Some Recent Research (Kingston, 1984).
- Ed. with Humanities Press International, 1985).
- Ed. with Humanities Press International, 1989).
- Ed. with introduction, In Defence of Australia"s Constitutional Monarchy, Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 2003).
- Co-author, The Origins of War in Early Modern Europe (Edinburgh: John Donald Publishers, 1987)
- Co-author, The Oxford Handbook of History and International Relations (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022)
- Contributor, Modern Encyclopedia of Russia and the Soviet Union (Boston, 1978, 1979, 1980)
- Contributor, The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003)
- Contributor, Encyclopedia of War, ed. Gordon Martell (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012)
- Contributor,"British Literary Magazines"ed.A.Sullivan(Greenwood Press,1983)
Editor, Studies in History and politics/Etudes d"Histoire et politiques(1980-1989)
Articles
- 'Lord Bute, Newcastle, Prussia, and the Hague Overtures: A Re-Examination', Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies, Vol. 9, No. 1 (Spring, 1977), pp. 72–97.
- 'William Pitt, Lord Bute, and the Peace Negotiations with France, May–September 1761', Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies, Vol. 13, No. 3 (Autumn, 1981), pp. 262–275.
- (with Carol S. Leonard), 'Britain, Prussia, Russia and the Galitzin Letter: A Reassessment', The Historical Journal, Vol. 26, No. 3 (Sep., 1983), pp. 531–556.
- 'Edward Weston (1703–70): The Papers of an Eighteenth-Century Under-Secretary in the Lewis Walpole Library', The Yale University Library Gazette, Vol. 71, No. 1/2 (October 1996), pp. 43–48.
- 'Jacobite Material among the Scottish Loudoun Papers', Huntington Library Quarterly, Vol. 61, No. 1 (1998), pp. 101–105.
As well as over 270 articles/reviews in scholarly journals and reference works.
Notes
- ^ a b c d 'Karl Schweizer', New Jersey Institute of Technology website. Retrieved 10 January 2021.
- ^ a b c 'Karl W. Schweizer', Rutgers University website. Retrieved 10 January 2021.
- ^ a b Jeremy Black, 'Reviewed Work: England, Prussia, and the Seven Years' War by Karl W. Schweizer', The International History Review, Vol. 11, No. 3 (Aug., 1989), p. 540.