Dieter Langewiesche (born 11 January 1943 in

Sankt Sebastian Sankt Sebastian is a municipality in the district of Mayen-Koblenz in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous count ...

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) is a

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historian. Langewiesche is one of the leading experts on the history of

nationalism Nationalism is an idea and movement that holds that the nation should be congruent with the State (polity), state. As a movement, nationalism tends to promote the interests of a particular nation (as in a in-group and out-group, group of peo ...

and

liberalism Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on the rights of the individual, liberty, consent of the governed, political equality and equality before the law."political rationalism, hostility to autocracy, cultural distaste for c ...

. In 1996 he received the

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (german: link=no, Förderpreis für deutsche Wissenschaftler im Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Programm der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft), in short Leibniz Prize, is awarded by the German Research Foundation to ...

Works

In English

* ''Liberalism in Germany.'' Translated by Christiane Banerji. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 2000, * ''Europe 1848. Revolution and Reform''. Edited by Dieter Dowe, Heinz-Gerhard Haupt, D. L. and Jonathan Sperber, New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2001. * ''Territorial Revisionism and the Allies of Germany in the Second World War: Goals, Expectations, Practices''. Edited by Marina Cattaruzza, Stefan Dyroff & Dieter Langewiesche. New York: Berghahn Books 2012. (PB)

References

1943 births Living people 20th-century German historians 21st-century German historians {{Germany-historian-stub