Norbert Finzsch
Norbert Finzsch (born 1951 in Cologne, Germany) as Norbert Rollewitz is a Germans, German historian. Education and career Norbert Finzsch studied German literature and United States history at the University of Cologne, where he passed the state exam in both majors in 1977. In 1980 he received his PhD in history at Cologne. The title of the dissertation was ''The Gold miners of California: Conditions of Work, Standards of Living, and Political System in the Middle of the Nineteenth Century''. It was a cliometric study. From 1981 to 1988 Finzsch taught American History as an assistant professor at the University of Cologne. In 1983/1984 he was a fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies at the University of California at Berkeley. In 1988 Finzsch passed his Habilitation (qualification for a professorship) and award of the Venia Legendi (right to teach) with a study of the social history of the Rhineland during the late 18th and early 19th century. In 1990 Finzsch was appo ...
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