Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- PART I: Introduction
- 1 German and American Historiography in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
- 2 German Historiography during the Weimar Republic and the Émigré Historians
- 3 The Historical Seminar of the University of Berlin in the Twenties
- PART II: Introduction
- 4 Refugee Historians in America: Preemigration Germany to 1939
- 5 “Uphill Work”: The German Refugee Historians and American Institutions of Higher Learning
- 6 Everyday Life and Emigration: The Role of Women
- 7 The Special Case of Austrian Refugee Historians
- 8 Schicksalsgeschichte: Refugee Historians in the United States
- 9 German Historians in the Office of Strategic Services
- 10 The Refugee Scholar as Intellectual Educator: A Student's Recollections
- PART III: Introduction
- 11 German Émigré Historians in America: The Fifties, Sixties, and Seventies
- 12 The Americanization of Hajo Holborn
- 13 Explaining History: Hans Rosenberg
- 14 Ernst Kantorowicz and Theodor E. Mommsen
- 15 Refugee Historians and the German Historical Profession between 1950 and 1970
- Conclusion
- Index
12 - The Americanization of Hajo Holborn
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 January 2013
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- PART I: Introduction
- 1 German and American Historiography in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
- 2 German Historiography during the Weimar Republic and the Émigré Historians
- 3 The Historical Seminar of the University of Berlin in the Twenties
- PART II: Introduction
- 4 Refugee Historians in America: Preemigration Germany to 1939
- 5 “Uphill Work”: The German Refugee Historians and American Institutions of Higher Learning
- 6 Everyday Life and Emigration: The Role of Women
- 7 The Special Case of Austrian Refugee Historians
- 8 Schicksalsgeschichte: Refugee Historians in the United States
- 9 German Historians in the Office of Strategic Services
- 10 The Refugee Scholar as Intellectual Educator: A Student's Recollections
- PART III: Introduction
- 11 German Émigré Historians in America: The Fifties, Sixties, and Seventies
- 12 The Americanization of Hajo Holborn
- 13 Explaining History: Hans Rosenberg
- 14 Ernst Kantorowicz and Theodor E. Mommsen
- 15 Refugee Historians and the German Historical Profession between 1950 and 1970
- Conclusion
- Index
Summary
Hajo Holborn was born in 1902 in Charlottenburg, a suburb of Berlin, to an academic family of Frisian-Hanoverian origin. He studied at the University of Berlin under Friedrich Meinecke, Karl Holl, Adolf von Harnack, and Ernst Troeltsch. His progress in the German historical profession can only be described as meteoric. He received the Ph.D. in 1924 with a dissertation entitled “Deutschland und die Türkei, 1878-1890,” subsequently published in 1926. Habilitation came in 1930 with the publication of his study Ulrich von Hutten. Meanwhile other publications had appeared: He edited Aufzeichnungen und Erinnerungen of Josef Maria von Radowitz (2 vols.) and wrote Bismarcks Europäische Politik zu Beginn der siebziger Jahre und die Mission Radowitz and also produced various essays on Hutten and modern diplomatic history. His journeyman years as university lecturer were spent at Heidelberg (1926-31). In 1931 Holborn was appointed Carnegie Professor of History and International Relations at the Deutsche Hochschule für Politik in Berlin and, simultaneously, to a lectureship in history at the University of Berlin. He was only twenty-nine.
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- An Interrupted PastGerman-Speaking Refugee Historians in the United States after 1933, pp. 170 - 179Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1991