Michael Geyer is a German
historian
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, and Samuel N. Harper Professor Emeritus of German and European History, at
University of Chicago
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.
He is the recipient of the 2012 Axel Springer
Berlin Prize
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and Senior Fellow at the
American Academy in Berlin
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.
He graduated from
Albert Ludwigs Universität Freiburg with a D.Phil.
Works
*"Resistance as Ongoing Project: Visions of Order, Obligations to Strangers, Struggles for Civil Society," ''The Journal of Modern History'' Vol. 64, December 1992
*Michael Geyer and John W. Boyer, eds., ''Resistance against the Third Reich, 1933-1990'', University of Chicago Press, 1994,
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*"Insurrectionary Warfare: The German Debate about a ''Levée en Masse'' in October 1918," ''The Journal of Modern History'' Vol. 73, No. 3, September 2001
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*Michael Geyer and Sheila Fitzpatrick, eds., ''Beyond totalitarianism: Stalinism and Nazism compared'', Cambridge University Press, 2009,
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References
External links
*http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/020606/gta-geyer.shtml
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20th-century German historians
University of Chicago faculty
University of Freiburg alumni
Living people
German male non-fiction writers
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century German historians