Mack Walker (June 6, 1929 – February 10, 2021) was an American historian of German intellectual history.

Life and career

Born near Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1929, he began teaching German history in the 1950s, and had an interest in German intellectual history of the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Walker began teaching at

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in 1974 and retired in June 1999. He published several books on German history, including the influential ''German Home Towns'' (1971), in which he examined the nature of small-town life in Early Modern Germany. He was a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and awards from the

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. Walker died from

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on February 10, 2021, aged 91.

Principle publications

*''German Home Towns: Community, State and General Estate 1648–1871.'' Cornell University Press; Reprint edition (June 18, 1998). *''The Salzburg Transaction: Expulsion and Redemption in Eighteenth Century Germany.'' Cornell University Press; 1 edition (1992). *''Johann Jakob Moser and the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation.'' The University of North Carolina Press; 1 edition (January 1, 1981). *''Germany and the Emigration, 1816–1885''. Harvard University Press; 1 edition (1964).

References

1929 births 2021 deaths Bowdoin College alumni Johns Hopkins University 21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers Historians of Germany People from Springfield, Massachusetts Place of death missing Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Maryland American male non-fiction writers {{US-historian-stub