Peter Schöttler (born 15 January 1950 in

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) is a

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historian working in France and Germany. He was a research director at the

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in Paris and teaches now at the

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, where he has held an honorary professorship since 2001. Schöttler was born in

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, but grew up in

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, thus becoming bilingual. He studied at

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, close to his birthplace, and then in

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at the

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. In history he was a student of

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in Bochum and

Michelle Perrot Michelle Perrot (born 18 May 1928, Paris) is a French historian, and Professor emeritus of Contemporary History at the Paris Diderot University. She won the 2009 Prix Femina Essai. Life She has worked on the history of labour movements, and st ...

in Paris; he studied philosophy under

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. He has been an interpreter and translator of the work of major 20th-century historians, notably

Marc Bloch Marc Léopold Benjamin Bloch ( ; ; 6 July 1886 – 16 June 1944) was a French historian. He was a founding member of the Annales School of French social history. Bloch specialised in medieval history and published widely on France in the Middle ...

and

Lucien Febvre Lucien Paul Victor Febvre ( ; ; 22 July 1878 – 11 September 1956) was a French historian best known for the role he played in establishing the Annales School of history. He was the initial editor of the ''Encyclopédie française'' together wit ...

, co-founders of the journal ''

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'' and the associated

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. He has also translated

Fernand Braudel Fernand Paul Achille Braudel (; 24 August 1902 – 27 November 1985) was a French historian. His scholarship focused on three main projects: ''The Mediterranean'' (1923–49, then 1949–66), ''Civilization and Capitalism'' (1955–79), and the un ...

and has explored and popularized the work of Lucie Varga, the first woman member of the ''Annales'' group of historians. Schöttler has taught at different German and Austrian universities and at the

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(EHESS). In 1990/91 he was a member at the

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and in 1996/97 a visiting fellow at

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. Since 2008 he is a visiting scholar at the

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in Berlin. At the 1998 '' Deutscher Historikertag'' Schöttler,

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and Michael Fahlbusch were involved in the debate concerning the role of German historians during the

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. The trio suggested that Theodor Schieder,

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and Karl-Dietrich Erdmann were complicit with the

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regime rather than inwardly withdrawn intellectually through

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. Peter Schöttler is the grandson of the

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brigade leader Gustav Krukenberg.Peter Schöttler, Three kinds of collaboration: concepts of Europe and the 'Franco-German understanding' - the career of SS-Brigadeführer Gustav Krukenberg. In: Dieter Gosewinkel (ed.), Anti-liberal Europe. A Neglected Story of Europeanization, New York, Berghahn, 2015, pp. 128-156.

Books

* ''Naissance des Bourses du travail. Un appareil idéologique d'État à la fin du XIXe siècle'', Presses universitaires de France, coll. "Pratiques théoriques", Paris, 1985. * (ed.)

Gareth Stedman Jones Gareth Stedman Jones (born 17 December 1942) is an English academic and historian. As Professor of the History of Ideas at Queen Mary, University of London, he deals particularly with working-class history and Marxism. Career Educated at St ...

, ''Klassen, Politik und Sprache. Für eine theorieorientierte Sozialgeschichte'', Verlag Westfälisches Dampfboot, Munster, 1988. * (ed.) Lucie Varga, ''Les Autorités invisibles. Une historienne autrichienne aux ‘

’'', Le Cerf, coll. "Bibliothèque franco-allemande", Paris, 1991. * (ed.)

, ''

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. Mythes et histoire'', Perrin, Paris, 1997 * (ed.) Lucien Febvre, ''

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'', Campus Verlag/Éditions de la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Francfort/Paris, 1996. * (ed.) Lucien Febvre, '' Margarete von Navarra. Eine Königin der Renaissance zwischen Macht, Liebe und Religion'', Campus Verlag/Éditions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Frankfurt/Paris, 1998. * (ed.) ''Geschichtsschreibung als Legitimationswissenschaft, 1918-1945'', Suhrkamp Verlag, Francfort, 1997. * (ed.) ''

- Historiker und Widerstandskämpfer'', Campus Verlag/Éditions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Francfort/Paris, 1999. * (ed.) Marc Bloch, ''Aus der Werkstatt des Historikers. Zur Theorie und Praxis der Geschichtswissenschaft'', Campus Verlag/Éditions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Francfort/Paris, 2000. * (ed.) Marc Bloch, ''Apologie der Geschichtswissenschaft oder Der Beruf des Historikers'', Verlag Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart, 2002. * (ed. with Philippe Despoix), ''

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, penseur de l’histoire'', Éditions de la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris, 2006. * (ed. with

Hans-Jörg Rheinberger Hans-Jörg Rheinberger (; born 12 January 1946) is a Swiss-born Liechtensteiner historian of science. He was director of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin from 1997 to 2014. His focus areas within the history of science ...

), ''Marc Bloch et le crises du savoir'', Berlin,

, 2011 (Preprint 418)

* (ed. with Henning Schmidgen et Jean-François Braunstein), ''Epistemology and History. From Gaston Bachelard, Bachelard and

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to Today’s History of Science'', Berlin,

, 2012 (Preprint 434

* (ed. with Dieter Gosewinkel et Iris Schröder), ''Antiliberales Europa'', numéro thématique de la revue ''Zeithistorische Forschungen'', 9, 2012, no. 3

* (ed.)

, ''Geschichte als Schlüssel zur Welt. Vorlesungen in deutscher Kriegsgefangenschaft 1941'', Verlag Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart, 2013. * ''Die "

"-Historiker und die deutsche Geschichtswissenschaft'', Tübingen, Verlag Mohr-Siebeck, 2015. * ''Du Rhin à la Manche. Frontières et relations franco-allemandes au XXe siècle'', Foreword by

Henry Rousso Henry Rousso (born 23 November 1954) is an Egyptian-born France, French historian specializing in World War II France. Early life Henry Rousso was born on 23 November 1954 in Cairo, Egypt, to a Egyptian jewish, Jewish family. Forced out of Egypt u ...

,Tours, Presses Universitaires Francois-Rabelais, 2017. * ''Das Max Planck Institut für Geschichte im historischen Kontext: Die Ära Heimpel.'' Berlin,

, 201

* ''Nach der Angst. Geschichtswissenschaft vor und nach dem „

linguistic turn The linguistic turn was a major development in Western philosophy during the early 20th century, the most important characteristic of which is the focusing of philosophy primarily on the relations between language, language users, and the world. ...

“.'' Münster, Verlag Westfälisches Dampfboot, 2018. * ''Das Max-Planck-Institut für Geschichte im historischen Kontext 1972–2006. Zwischen Sozialgeschichte, Historischer Anthropologie und Historischer Kulturwissenschaft.'' Berlin, Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science, 202

References

External links

Schöttler's CV at the CNRS, Paris

Schöttler's homepage
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