Jürgen Osterhammel

Jürgen Osterhammel (born 1952 in Wipperfürth, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German historian.

Academia

Osterhammel started his academic career as a research fee student at the London School of Economics in 1976/77 and studied and worked there under Professor Ian Nish. In 1980 he obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Kassel (Germany) in Modern History. Two years later he started as a fellow at the German Historical Institute in London. Between 1986 and 1990 he was the Senior Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Freiburg (Germany). He then worked for seven years as the Professor of Modern History at the German FernUniversität Hagen, a distance-learning university, and university with the highest number of students in Germany. He has also worked as a Professor of Modern History at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva before taking up the same position in the University of Konstanz (Germany) in 1999. In 2001-2002 he was a fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences. In 2014 he was elected a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy.

Awards

In 2010 Jürgen Osterhammel received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize.

Areas of Research

• Colonialism
• Eurasian History since the 18th century
• History and Theory of Historiography
• World or Global History

Selected Publications (in English)

• The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2014)
• Colonialism: A Theoretical Overview (2nd edn., Princeton 2005)
• Globalization: A Short History (with Niels P. Petersson, Princeton 2005)
• Max Weber and His Contemporaries (edited, with Wolfgang J. Mommsen, London 1987)

External links

• Jurgen Osterhammel on Amazon
• Detailed interview with J. Osterhammel in the journal Itinerario