Prof. Jürgen Osterhammel Born in 1952 in Wipperfürth. 1980 PhD. at ...

Prof. Jürgen Osterhammel
Born in 1952 in Wipperfürth. 1980 PhD. at the University of Kassel. 1982–1986
Research associate at the German Historical Institute London. 1986–1990 Academic
advisor at the Political Sciences Seminar at the University of Freiburg. 1990
Postdoctoral thesis on Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Freiburg.
1990–1997 Professor of Modern, especially Extra-European History at the University of
Hagen. 1997–1999 Professor of International Relations History at the Institut
Universitaire de Hautes Études Internationales in Geneva. Since 1999 Chair for Modern
History (focusing on the 19 th and 20 th centuries) at the University of Konstanz.
1996–1997 Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin. 1999 Gleim Prize for
Literature of the Town of Halberstadt. Since 2000 full member of the Berlin-
Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. 2001 Anna Krüger Prize of the
Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin. July 2001–June 2002 Fellow-in-Residence at
NIAS (Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study). Since 2004 member of Academia
Europaea (London). October 2007–September 2008 Fellow of the Carl Friedrich von
Siemens Foundation (Munich). 2007–2011 Member of the Board of the Cluster of
Excellence 16 (Cultural Foundations of Social Integration). 2009 NDR Non-Fiction Book
Prize. Since 2010 Corresponding Member Abroad of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
(Philosophy/History class). 2010 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the German Research
Foundation (DFG).
Selected publications:
Die Verwandlung der Welt. Eine Geschichte des 19. Jahrhunderts, (Munich, 2009, 5 th
edition 2010; series: Historische Bibliothek der Gerda Henkel Stiftung); English, Polish,
French, Chinese and Russian translations in preparation
(with Niels P. Petersson) Geschichte der Globalisierung. Dimensionen – Prozesse –
Epochen, (Munich, 2003, 5 th edition 2012; English translation: Globalization: A Short
History, [Princeton, NJ, 2005, paperback ed. 2009]; Italian translation [Bologna, 2005];
Persian translation online; Japanese translation in preparation
Geschichtswissenschaft jenseits des Nationalstaats. Studien zu Beziehungsgeschichte
und Zivilisationsvergleich, (Göttingen, 2001, 2 nd edition 2002)
Die Entzauberung Asiens. Europa und die asiatischen Reiche im 18. Jahrhundert,
(Munich, 1998, 2 nd edition 2010); Chinese translation 2007
Pierre Poivre: Reisen eines Philosophen (1768), introduction, translation and
commentary by Jürgen Osterhammel, (Sigmaringen, 1997)

Shanghai, 30. Mai 1925: Die Chinesische Revolution, (Munich, 1997); Italian translation
Bologna, 1999; Chinese translation Taibei, 2000
Kolonialismus. Geschichte, Formen, Folgen, (Munich, 1995, 7 th revised edition 2012
with Jan C. Jansen); English translation: Colonialism: A Theoretical Overview,
(Princeton, NJ, 1997, 2 nd revised edition 2005); Arabic translation, Riyadh, 1999;
Japanese translation of an extended manuscript Tokyo, 2005; Korean translation with a
foreword by the author of the Korean edition Seoul, 2006
China und die Weltgesellschaft. Vom 18. Jahrhundert bis in unsere Zeit, (Munich,
1989), postdoctoral thesis (Modern and Contemporary History), University of Freiburg,
1990; Italian translation Turin, 1992
Britischer Imperialismus im Fernen Osten. Strukturen der Durchdringung und
einheimischer Widerstand auf dem chinesischen Markt 1932–1937, Bochum, 1983,
Ph.D. thesis, University of Kassel, 1980
Co-editor of the series Studien zur Internationalen Geschichte and Historische
Kulturwissenschaft plus the journals Geschichte und Gesellschaft and Neue Politische
Literatur
Together with Akira Iriye, editor of Geschichte der Welt / A History of the World, from
October 2012 in six-volume parallel editions in both Munich and Cambridge, Mass.