Lutz Raphael (born 12 September 1955) is a German historian and historiographer. He is a professor at the

University of Trier The University of Trier (german: Universität Trier), in the German city of Trier, was founded in 1473. Closed in 1798 by order of the then French administration in Trier, the university was re-established in 1970 after a hiatus of some 172 y ...

Life

Lutz Raphael was born in

Essen Essen (; Latin: ''Assindia'') is the central and, after Dortmund, second-largest city of the Ruhr, the largest urban area in Germany. Its population of makes it the fourth-largest city of North Rhine-Westphalia after Cologne, Düsseldorf and D ...

. He studied

History History (derived ) is the systematic study and the documentation of the human activity. The time period of event before the History of writing#Inventions of writing, invention of writing systems is considered prehistory. "History" is an umbr ...

Romance studies Romance studies or Romance philology ( an, filolochía romanica; ca, filologia romànica; french: romanistique; eo, latinida filologio; it, filologia romanza; pt, filologia românica; ro, romanistică; es, filología románica) is an acade ...

Philosophy Philosophy (from , ) is the systematized study of general and fundamental questions, such as those about existence, reason, knowledge, values, mind, and language. Such questions are often posed as problems to be studied or resolved. Some ...

and

Sociology Sociology is a social science that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of Interpersonal ties, social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life. It uses various methods of Empirical ...

Münster Münster (; nds, Mönster) is an independent city (''Kreisfreie Stadt'') in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is in the northern part of the state and is considered to be the cultural centre of the Westphalia region. It is also a state distr ...

and

Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...

between 1974 and 1984. It was at Münster that he received his doctorate with a doctorate entitled "Partei und Gewerkschaft" on the trades union strategies of the Communist Parties in Italy and France since 1970. Between 1987 and 1996 he was employed as an academic research assistant at TU Darmstadt. In 1994 his

habilitation Habilitation is the highest university degree, or the procedure by which it is achieved, in many European countries. The candidate fulfills a university's set criteria of excellence in research, teaching and further education, usually including a ...

, received from the TU, opened the way to a lifelong academic career. His dissertation, this time, was entitled "The successors of

Bloch Bloch is a surname of German origin. Notable people with this surname include: A–F * (1859-1914), French rabbi *Adele Bloch-Bauer (1881-1925), Austrian entrepreneur *Albert Bloch (1882–1961), American painter * (born 1972), German motor journal ...

and Febvre. Annales-historiography and '

Nouvelle histoire The term ''new history'', from the French term ''nouvelle histoire'', was coined by Jacques Le Goff and Pierre Nora, leaders of the third generation of the ''Annales'' school, in the 1970s. The movement can be associated with cultural history, hi ...

' in

France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pac ...

(1945–1980)" (''"" Die Erben von Bloch und Febvre. Annales-Historiographie und nouvelle histoire in Frankreich 1945–1980"'').Die Erben von Bloch und Febvre. Annales-Historiographie und 'nouvelle histoire' in Frankreich 1945-1980, Stuttgart 1994 In 1996 he became Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at

Trier Trier ( , ; lb, Tréier ), formerly known in English as Trèves ( ;) and Triers (see also names in other languages), is a city on the banks of the Moselle in Germany. It lies in a valley between low vine-covered hills of red sandstone in the ...

, a position he has retained (2018) for more than twenty years. Raphael served as a member of the

German Council of Science and Humanities The ''Wissenschaftsrat'' (''WR''; German Science and Humanities Council) is an advisory body to the German Federal Government and the state (''Länder'') governments. It makes recommendations on the development of science, research, and the univers ...

between 2007 and 2013. He was a

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 ...

winner in 2013. Since 2014 he has been a member of the Mainz-based Academy of Sciences and Literature. During 2015/2016 he was the Gerda Henkel Visiting Professor at the

German Historical Institute London The German Historical Institute London (GHIL) is one of the nine independent academic research institutes of the German Historical Institute (german: Deutsche Historische Institute) that are part of the Max Weber Foundation. Foundation The cre ...

Output (selection)

* 1984 Partei und Gewerkschaft. Die Gewerkschaftsstrategien der kommunistischen Parteien Italiens und Frankreichs seit 1970, Münster 1984. * 1993 Le Centre de recherches historiques de 1949 à 1975 (Cahiers du Centre de Recherches Historiques 10 Avril 1993) Paris 1993.* 2011 Imperiale Gewalt und mobilisierte Nation, Europa 1914-1945, München 2011. * 1994 Die Erben von Bloch und Febvre. Annales-Historiographie und nouvelle histoire in Frankreich 1945-1980, Stuttgart 1994. * 2000 Recht und Ordnung. Herrschaft durch Verwaltung im 19. Jahrhundert (in Europa), Frankfurt/Main 2000. * 2003 Geschichtswissenschaft im Zeitalter der Extreme. Hauptwerke und Hauptströmungen von 1900 bis zur Gegenwart, München 2003. * 2010 together with Anselm Doering-Manteuffel, Nach dem Boom. Perspektiven der Zeitgeschichte nach 1970, Göttingen 2008, 2nd enlarged edition 2010. * 2010 Ilaria Porciani/Lutz Raphael, Atlas of European Historiography. The Making of a Profession 1800-2005, Houndmills, Basingstoke 2010. * 2011 Imperiale Gewalt und mobilisierte Nation, Europa 1914-1945, München 2011. An exceptionally high proportion of collaboratively produced work is listed.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Raphael, Lutz Contemporary historians 20th-century German historians 21st-century German historians Academic staff of the University of Trier Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize winners Writers from Essen 1955 births Living people