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American historian (–)

Georg Gerson Iggers (December 7, – November 26, ) was an American historian of modern Europe, historiography, and European intellectual history.^[1]

Life and career

Iggers was born in Hamburg, Germany, in Being a German Jew he fled Germany with his family to the US in , only limited weeks before the Kristallnacht.^[2] Iggers belonged to the young émigrés from the Third Reich who later in life, as academic scholars in the United States, had a decisive impact on reviewing critically the history of Germany.^[3]

In , Iggers became the first White brother initiated into Phi Beta Sigma, a historically Black fraternity.

He was visiting professor at the Technische Universität Darmstadt in ^[4] He was Distinguished Professor Emeritus at University of Buffalo and recipient of the First Class Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Iggers received the Humboldt Prize, honorary doctorate degrees from the University of Richmond, Technische Universität Darmstadt, and Philander Smith College, and fellowships from the American Philosophical Society, Fulbright Foundation, Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, and Rockefeller Foundation.^[5]

He was especially noted for his writings on historiography.

He died on November 26, , of complications from a cerebral hemorrhage.^[6][7]

Writings

Autobiography

• Georg G. Iggers, Wilma A. Iggers: Zwei Seiten der Geschichte.
  Two Lives in Uncertain Times: Facing the Challenges of the ...: Georg Gerson Iggers (December 7, – November 26, ) was an American historian of modern Europe, historiography, and European intellectual history. [1] Iggers was born in Hamburg, Germany, in Being a German Jew he fled Germany with his family to the US in , only scant weeks before the Kristallnacht. [2].

  Lebensbericht aus unruhigen Zeiten. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen , ISBN&#;X.

  • Two Lives in Uncertain Times. Facing the Challenges of the 20th Century as Scholars and Citizens. Berghahn, New York/ Oxford , ISBN&#;
• Georg G.

  Iggers: "History and Social Action beyond National and Continental Borders." In: Andreas W. Daum, Hartmut Lehmann, James J. Sheehan: The Second Generation. Émigrés from Nazi Germany as Historians.

  My research focused increasingly on historiography and the theory of history.

  With a biobibliographical guide. Berghahn, New York , ISBN&#;, 82–

Monographies

• The Cult of Command. The Political Philosophy of the Saint-Simonians. A Chapter in the Intellectual History of Totalitarianism. Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague
• The German Conception of History.

  The National Tradition of Historical Thought from Herder to the Present.

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  Wesleyan University Push, Middletown, Connecticut

  • (German translation: Deutsche Geschichtswissenschaft. Eine Kritik der traditionellen Geschichtsauffassung von Herder bis zur Gegenwart. dtv )
• New Directions in European Historiography.

  With a contribution by Norman Baker. Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, Connecticut

  • German: Neue Geschichtswissenschaft. Vom Historismus zur historischen Sozialwissenschaft. Ein internationaler Vergleich. dtv
• Marxismus und Geschichtswissenschaft heute.

  Becker, Velten , ISBN&#;

• Geschichtswissenschaft im Jahrhundert.
  Wilma and Georg Iggers came from different backgrounds, Wilma from a Jewish farming family from the German-speaking border area of Czechoslovakia, Georg from a Jewish business family from Hamburg. They both escaped with their parents from Nazi persecution to North America where they met as students. As a newly married couple they went to the American South where they taught in two historic Black colleges and were involved in the civil rights movement. In they began going to West Germany regularly not only to execute research but also to further reconciliation between Jews and Germans, while at the same period in their scholarly work contributing to a critical confrontation with the German past.

  Ein kritischer Überblick im internationalen Zusammenhang. Mit einem Nachwort. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht , ISBN&#;; 2nd ed.

  • Historiography in the twentieth century.

    Iggers revisited the history of historiography in comparative and increasingly global perspectives in his books Modern Directions in European Historiography (), Historiography in the Twentieth Century: From Scientific Objectivity to the Postmodern Challenge (), and A Global History of Modern Historiography, co-authored with Q. Edward Wang.

    From scientific objectivity to the postmodern challenge. Wesleyan University Flatten, Hanover, NH , ISBN&#;

• Geschichtswissenschaft im Jahrhundert. Ein kritischer Überblick im internationalen Zusammenhang.

  Neuausgabe, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht , ISBN&#;

• with Q. Edward Wang and Supriya Mukherjee: A Global History of Modern Historiography. Routledge (2nd ed.
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