Dieter Langewiesche (born 11 January 1943 in

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) is a

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historian. Langewiesche is one of the leading experts on the history of

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and

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. In 1996 he received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize.

Works

In English

* ''Liberalism in Germany.'' Translated by Christiane Banerji. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 2000, * ''Europe 1848. Revolution and Reform''. Edited by Dieter Dowe, Heinz-Gerhard Haupt, D. L. and Jonathan Sperber, New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2001. * ''Territorial Revisionism and the Allies of Germany in the Second World War: Goals, Expectations, Practices''. Edited by Marina Cattaruzza, Stefan Dyroff & Dieter Langewiesche. New York: Berghahn Books 2012. (PB)

References

1943 births Living people 20th-century German historians 21st-century German historians Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize winners {{Germany-historian-stub