Andreas W. Daum is a German-American
historian
A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the st ...
who specializes in modern German and transatlantic history, as well as the history of knowledge and global exploration.
Daum received his Ph.D. summa cum laude in 1995 from the
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (simply University of Munich or LMU; german: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) is a public research university in Munich, Germany. It is Germany's sixth-oldest university in continuous operatio ...
, where he taught for six years as an assistant professor. In 1996, he joined the
German Historical Institute Washington DC
The German Historical Institute Washington DC is an institute of historical study based in Washington, D.C. It has been part of the Max Weber Stiftung: Deutsche Geisteswissenschaftliche Institute im Ausland since 2002. The director is Simone Lä ...
as a research fellow. From 2001 to 2002, Daum was a John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow at the Center for European Studies at
Harvard University
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. Since 2003, he has been a professor of European history at the
State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo. He also served as an associate dean for undergraduate education in the provost's office. In 2010–11, he was a visiting scholar at the BMW Center for German and European Studies at
Georgetown University
Georgetown University is a private research university in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded by Bishop John Carroll in 1789 as Georgetown College, the university has grown to comprise eleven undergraduate and graduate ...
.
He is best known as a biographer of
Alexander von Humboldt
Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (14 September 17696 May 1859) was a German polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and proponent of Romantic philosophy and science. He was the younger brother of the Prussian minister ...
and for his studies on popular science, emigrants from Nazi Germany, and the United States’ special relationship with "America’s Berlin". His book ''Kennedy in Berlin'' highlights the role of emotions in the Cold War and provides a comprehensive explanation of John F. Kennedy's 1963 "
Ich bin ein Berliner
"" (; "I am a Berliner") is a speech by United States President John F. Kennedy given on June 26, 1963, in West Berlin. It is one of the best-known speeches of the Cold War and among the most famous anti-communist speeches.
Twenty-two mon ...
" speech.
In 2019, he was awarded the
Humboldt Prize, a lifetime achievement award for international scientists and scholars, and invited to spend the year 2019–20 at the University of Munich.
He has received fellowships and grants from the
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation,
American Philosophical Society
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,
National Endowment for the Humanities
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,
Smithsonian Institution
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, Gerda Henkel Foundation,
DAAD, and the
Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes
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.
Books
* ''Wissenschaftspopularisierung im 19. Jahrhundert: Bürgerliche Kultur, naturwissenschaftliche Bildung und die deutsche Öffentlichkeit, 1848‒1914'', Munich: Oldenbourg (1998; 2nd edition 2002), a study on science popularization in the 19th century
* ''Kennedy in Berlin'', New York: Cambridge University Press (2007, German edition 2003)
* ''Alexander von Humboldt'', Munich: C. H. Beck (2019)
Edited Volumes
* ''America, the Vietnam War and the World: Comparative and International Perspectives'', with
Lloyd C. Gardner and Wilfried Mausbach, New York: Cambridge University Press (2003)
* ''Berlin ‒ Washington, 1800‒2000: Capital Cities, Cultural Representations, and National Identities'', with Christof Mauch, New York: Cambridge University Press (2005, paperback 2011)
* ''The Second Generation: Émigrés from Nazi Germany as Historians. With a Biobibliographic Guide'', with Hartmut Lehmann and
James J. Sheehan, New York: Berghahn Books (2016, paperback 2018)
External links
Faculty member Department of History, University at Buffalo
John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellowat the Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Visiting Scholar at the BMW Center for German and European Studies Georgetown University
Recipient of the Baird Society Resident Scholarshipfrom the Smithsonian Institution
* Interview with Andreas Daum (2019)
"The sensual Humboldt is yet to be discovered" Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
* Andreas W. Daum
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, no. 143, June 24, 2013
References
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Living people
Historians of Germany
Historians of Europe
Historians of science
20th-century German historians
21st-century American historians
American male non-fiction writers
University at Buffalo faculty
German emigrants to the United States
German male non-fiction writers
Alexander von Humboldt
John F. Kennedy
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American male writers