Rudolf Braun (historian)
Rudolf Braun (18 April 1930 in Basel – 19 May 2012 in Basel; originally from Basel[1]) was a Swiss historian.[2]
Biography
Braun was the son of a geologist. He attended
Dr. phil.) in 1960. He worked as an assistant at the Center for Social Research of Dortmund from 1959 to 1961 and as a scientific assistant in Chicago from 1961 to 1964, before he qualified as a professor at the University of Bern in 1964. He subsequently wrote a paper about integration problems of Italian guest workers in Switzerland. He became a lecturer in 1966 and was an ordinary professor of social and economic history at the Free University of Berlin
from 1968 to 1971. From 1971 to 1995, he was an ordinary professor of general and Swiss modern history at the University of Zurich.
He was one of the pioneering social historians of German-speaking Switzerland alongside Markus Mattmüller (Basel) and Erich Gruner (Bern).[3] In his diversified works, he linked political, social and cultural history.
He co-organised the first seminary for women's history at the University of Zurich with his assistant Jakob Tanner.[4]
Works
As an author
- Die Veränderungen der Lebensformen in einem ländlichen Industriegebiet vor 1800 (Zürcher Oberland) (= Industrialisierung und Volksleben. vol. 1). Erlenbach/Stuttgart: Rentsch, 1960, DNB-IDN 450597113; 2nd edition: Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1979.
- Sozialer und kultureller Wandel in einem ländlichen Industriegebiet (Zürcher Oberland) unter Einwirkung des Maschinen- und Fabrikwesens im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert (= Industrialisierung und Volksleben. vol. 2). Winterthur / Rentsch, Erlenbach/Stuttgart: Keller, 1965, ISBN 3-905313-29-4.
- Das ausgehende Ancien Régime in der Schweiz. Aufriß einer Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte des 18. Jahrhunderts. Göttingen/Zurich: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1984, ISBN 3-525-36182-3.
- with ISBN 3-406-37550-2.
- Von den Heimarbeitern zur europäischen Machtelite. Ausgewählte Aufsätze. Zurich: Chronos, 2000, ISBN 3-905313-47-2.
As an editor
- with ISBN 3-462-00871-4.
- with Wolfram Fischer, Helmut Großkreutz, Heinrich Volkmann: Gesellschaft in der industriellen Revolution (= Neue wissenschaftliche Bibliothek. vol. 56). Cologne: Kiepenheuer und Witsch, 1973, ISBN 3-462-00925-7.
Bibliography
- Sebastian Brändli, ISBN 3-7190-1058-9.
References
- ^ Tanner, Jakob (23 May 2012). "Wege im Möglichkeitsraum der Geschichte. Zum Tod des Sozial- und Wirtschaftshistorikers Rudolf Braun". Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in German).
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- ^ Bernard Degen: Mattmüller, Markus in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland.
- ^ Joris, Elisabeth (3 November 2016). "«Wie wird man Frauenhistorikerin?»". WOZ (Interview) (in German). Retrieved November 23, 2019.
External links
- Literature by and about Rudolf Braun in the German National Library catalogue
- Markus Bürgi: Braun, Rudolf in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland.
- Schweizerische Depeschenagentur (23 May 2012). "Historiker Rudolf Braun gestorben". Aargauer Zeitung (in German). Archived from the original on 23 May 2012.
- Brändli, Sebastian (23 May 2012). "Nachruf. Zürcher Historiker Rudolf Braun gestorben" (PDF). Tages-Anzeiger (in German).
- Tanner, Jakob (23 May 2012). "Zum Tod des Sozial- und Wirtschaftshistorikers Rudolf Braun". Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in German).
- Joris, Elisabeth (31 May 2012). "Rudolf Braun (1930–2012). Sympathisant der konkreten Menschen". Wochenzeitung (in German). No. 22/2012.
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