Georg g iggers biography of william

I was born in Hamburg, Germany, on December 7, , brought up in a Jewish family and fled with my parents in October , a few weeks before Kristallnacht, from Nazi Germany to the United States. We settled in Richmond, Virginia, where I received my B. In I received my M. In I had married Wilma Abeles, who had fled to Canada with her parents from the German-speaking area of Czechoslovakia, which had been occupied by the Nazis in the fall of We met at the University of Chicago where she received her Ph.

In the fall of we went to Little Rock, Arkansas, where we taught at Philander Smith College, a historically black school, and were both actively involved in the civil rights movement. Our three sons were born while we lived in Little Rock. From there, in we went to New Orleans where we taught at Dillard University, also a historically black school, and where we too were both actively involved in the civil rights movement.

The academic year we spent in France and Germany with the support of my Guggenheim Fellowship, and the following academic year in Germany with a Rockefeller Foundation grant. In I was promoted to Distinguished Professor and retired in , though until I regularly taught a graduate seminar each fall. Even before I took up the appointment at Buffalo, beginning in , I frequently spent time in West Germany, and from on I also lectured in East Germany.

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Georg g iggers biography of william

Together with his wife and literary historian Wilma Abeles Iggers, he also engaged throughout his life in civil rights causes. In , Iggers moved on to Dillard University in New Orleans, where he eventually became a full professor. For several years, Georg chaired the education committee and the executive committee of the Little Rock chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

SUNY Buffalo remained his academic home, and in he was named distinguished professor. Iggers revisited the history of historiography in comparative and increasingly global perspectives in his books New 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 He featured research on social history by several East German historians in Ein anderer historischer Blick: Beispiele ostdeutscher Sozialgeschichte