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Winfried Baumgart (born 29 September 1938) is a German historian. His work has a particular focus on German history during the nineteenth century and the opening decades of the twentieth century. His bibliographical directory of Germany history, which first appeared in 1971, proved sufficiently popular to reach 16 editions by 2006.


Life

Winfried Baumgart was born in Streckenbach, a hamlet then administered as part of Jauer in the
Lower Silesia Lower Silesia ( pl, Dolny Śląsk; cz, Dolní Slezsko; german: Niederschlesien; szl, Dolny Ślōnsk; hsb, Delnja Šleska; dsb, Dolna Šlazyńska; Silesian German: ''Niederschläsing''; la, Silesia Inferior) is the northwestern part of the ...
n countryside to the west of Breslau. His father was a railway official. When he was 6 his family were caught up in the ethnic cleansing that was a feature of the times, and he fled with his two brothers to the Oldenburg region in the northwest of the British zone. Here he grew up. Between 1958 and 1963 he studied
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and Anglistics at
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in Saarbrücken. The course included a year abroad, which in Baumgart's case was divided between
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. His ambition at his point was to become a secondary school teacher. At the same time he worked for and obtained a qualification as a simultaneous translator (English, French, Russian, German).-__a_couple_of_biographical_paragraphs_about_the_author,_accompanying_his_essay_on_the_ -__a_couple_of_biographical_paragraphs_about_the_author,_accompanying_his_essay_on_the_Crimean_War
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"''). The doctorate was supervised by Konrad Repgen.Winfried Baumgart: Deutsche Ostpolitik 1918. Von Brest-Litowsk bis zum Ende des Ersten Weltkrieges. Wien 1966, p. 11. Habilitation followed, from University of Bonn, Bonn, in 1971, with a piece of research entitled " The Peace of Paris 1856. Studies of the relationship between waging war, politics, and the peace movement" (''" Der Friede von Paris 1856. Studien zum Verhältnis von Kriegführung, Politik und Friedensbewegung"''). Between 1966 and 1970 he supported himself as a research assistant at
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, transferring to Bonn in 1970. In 1971 he became a visiting professor in history at the
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. Two years later, in 1973, he obtained a full professorship in Medieval and Modern History at
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. Here he has built a reputation for research that has covered, in particular,
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,
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,
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and Bismarck. He also took various visiting and guest professorships including
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(1977/78), New Sorbonne (1988/89),
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(1990/91) and Riga (1993). He has been retired since 2003.


References

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