Michael Geyer is a German

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 stu ...

, and Samuel N. Harper Professor Emeritus of German and European History, at

University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its main campus is located in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. The University of Chicago is consistently ranked among the b ...

. He is the recipient of the 2012 Axel Springer Berlin Prize and Senior Fellow at the

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. He graduated from Albert Ludwigs Universität Freiburg with a D.Phil.

Works

*"Resistance as Ongoing Project: Visions of Order, Obligations to Strangers, Struggles for Civil Society," ''The Journal of Modern History'' Vol. 64, December 1992 *Michael Geyer and John W. Boyer, eds., ''Resistance against the Third Reich, 1933-1990'', University of Chicago Press, 1994, * *"Insurrectionary Warfare: The German Debate about a ''Levée en Masse'' in October 1918," ''The Journal of Modern History'' Vol. 73, No. 3, September 2001 * *Michael Geyer and Sheila Fitzpatrick, eds., ''Beyond totalitarianism: Stalinism and Nazism compared'', Cambridge University Press, 2009, *

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*http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/020606/gta-geyer.shtml {{DEFAULTSORT:Geyer, Michael 20th-century German historians University of Chicago faculty University of Freiburg alumni Living people German male non-fiction writers Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century German historians