Dietmar Rothermund

Dietmar Rothermund Otto Ernst ( born January 20, 1933, Kassel, Germany ) is a German historian and professor emeritus of South Asian History at the Ruprecht -Karls- University of Heidelberg.

Life and work

Dietmar Rothermund studied history and philosophy in Marburg, Munich and Philadelphia. He received his doctorate in 1959 with a thesis on American social history in the United States. After graduating, he traveled to India in January 1960 and decided to devote his research in the future of South Asia. In 1963 he was awarded an assistantship at the University of Heidelberg at the newly founded South Asia Institute, which was established on the initiative of Werner Conze.

There was 1968 Habilitation with the then applicable standard work work "The political will in India, 1900-1960 ". Shortly thereafter, he was appointed professor of the history of South Asia. His focus was on the history of political ideas of India, whose agricultural system during the colonial period, the person of Mahatma Gandhi and the Indian economic history. From 1 August 1986, he was Managing Director of the South Asia Institute. In 1991 he initiated the Heidelberg South Asia talks, which made ​​him known not least India and well skilled in Germany and in the media. 2001 Rothermund was given emeritus status.

Dietmar Rothermund is a board member of the German Association for Asian Studies, in the Indo - German Consultative Group and a member of the European Association of South Asian Studies, where he is chairman since 1996.

Honors

Writings (selection )

Rother mouth authored 38 monographs and 20 anthologies as editor, such as the Yearbook of Non-European history Periplus. Some of his works are also available in Bengali, Telugu, Turkish and Chinese.

  • Gandhi and Nehru. Two Faces of India. Kohlhammerstraße TB Urban, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-17-021342-5
  • India. Rise of Asian world power. Federal Centre for Political Education, Bonn 2008, ISBN 978-3-89331-900-8
  • Mahatma Gandhi. Beck, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-406-48022-5
  • Hotspot Kashmir. The conflict between the nuclear powers India and Pakistan. Beck, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-406-49424-2
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