Theodore Stephen Hamerow (August 24, 1920 – February 16, 2013) was a Polish-born American historian, focusing on modern history, especially German history of the 19th and 20th century.[1][2]
Life and career
Born to Jewish parents in Warsaw, Hamerow moved via France to the United States with his family in 1930.[3] He earned his bachelor's degree from City College of New York in 1942, followed by a master's from Columbia University in 1947. In 1951, he earned his doctorate under supervision of Hajo Holborn at Yale University.[3][4]
Hamerow was a professor of German history at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign from 1952 to 1958, before joining faculty at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he taught until 1991.[3]
Hamerow died in Madison, Wisconsin, in 2013.[3][4]
Selected works
- Restoration, Revolution, Reaction: Economics and Politics in Germany, 1815–1871 (1958)
- Social Foundations of German Unification, 1858–1871, 2 vols. (1969–72)
- (ed.), The Age of Bismarck: Documents and Interpretations (Harper/Evanston, New York, NY/London 1972)
- Reflections on History and Historians (1987)
- On the Road to Wolf's Lair: German Resistance to Hitler (1997)
- Why We Watched: Europe, America, and the Holocaust (2008)
Further reading
- Theodore S. Hamerow, Remembering a Vanished World. A Jewish Childhood in Interwar Poland (2001)
- Andreas Daum, "Refugees from Nazi Germany as Historians: Origins and Migrations, Interests and Identities", in The Second Generation: Émigrés from Nazi Germany as Historians. With a Biobibliographic Guide, ed. Daum, Hartmut Lehmann, James J. Sheehan. New York: Berghahn Books, 2016, ISBN 978-1-78238-985-9, 1‒52.
References
- ^ Andreas W. Daum, Hartmut Lehmann, James J. Sheehan (eds.), The Second Generation: Émigrés from Nazi Germany as Historians. With a Biobibliographic Guide. New York: Berghahn Books, 2016, ISBN 978-1-78238-985-9, pp. 7, 34, 289‒90, 378‒79.
- ^ Theodore Stephen Hamerow
- ^ a b c d "Theodore Stephen Hamerow". Wisconsin State Journal. February 24, 2013. p. 14. Retrieved February 9, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b Theodore Hamerow (1920–2013)
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