George Mosse
American historian (1918–1999) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Gerhard "George" Lachmann Mosse (September 20, 1918 – January 22, 1999) was a German-American social and cultural historian, who emigrated from Nazi Germany to Great Britain and then to the United States. He was professor of history at the University of Iowa, the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and also in Israel, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.[1] Best known for his studies of Nazism, he authored more than 25 books on topics as diverse as constitutional history, Protestant theology, and the history of masculinity. In 1966, he and Walter Laqueur founded The Journal of Contemporary History, which they co-edited.
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Born | Gerhard Lachmann Mosse (1918-09-20)September 20, 1918 |
Died | January 22, 1999(1999-01-22) (aged 80) Madison, Wisconsin, U.S. |
Board member of | Co-editor, Journal of Contemporary History |
Awards | Goethe Medal (1988) Leo Baeck Medal (1998) |
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Education | Schule Schloss Salem, Cambridge University |
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Doctoral advisor | Charles Howard McIlwain |
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Discipline | History |
Sub-discipline | European intellectual history |
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Main interests | Germany, Fascism, Intellectual History, Gender Studies |
Notable works | The Crisis of German Ideology: Intellectual Origins of the Third Reich (1964), Nationalism and Sexuality: Respectable and Abnormal Sexuality in Modern Europe (1985) |
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