Eugen Weber

Eugen J. Weber ( born April 24, 1925 in Bucharest, Romania, † 17 May, 2007 Brentwood, United States) was an American historian. As a connoisseur of French history, he was known worldwide.

Life

Weber was born in Romania and educated in England. He studied history at Ashville College in Windermere and then stepped on the side of Great Britain as a soldier in the Second World War. Between 1942 and 1947 missions took him to Belgium, Germany and India. After his return to Europe, he studied history at the Sorbonne, the Institut d' études politiques de Paris and the University of Cambridge.

Eugen Weber taught initially at Emmanuel College, Cambridge (1953-1954), the University of Alberta (1954-1955) and the University of Iowa ( 1955-1956 ). In 1956, Eugen Weber Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles ( UCLA). From 1977 to 1982 he was Dean of the Faculty of Literature and Science. In 1992 he was honored as the best UCLA professor. The Department of Modern European History at UCLA was named after him. He retired in 1993.

Eugen Weber was married to the French Jacqueline Brument -Roth since 1950. He died of pancreatic cancer.

Work

The research focus of Weber were the French culture and politics. He has published numerous books on the history of France as "The Nationalist Revival in France, 1905-1914 " (1959), followed by " Action Francaise: royalism and Reaction in Twentieth - Century France" (1962), " Peasants Into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, 1880-1914 "(1976), " France, Fin de Siecle "(1986), " My France: Politics, Culture, Myth "(1991) and" The Hollow Years: France in the 1930s "(1994).

His work " A Modern History of Europe" (1971 ) and " The Western Tradition" (1989 ) were the standard works of historical higher education. He was for his book Peasants into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France awarded, 1870-1914 1977 Ralph Waldo Emerson - Prize of Phi Beta Kappa Society.

Weber was a full member in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Guggenheim Foundation and the " American Council of Learned Societies ."

Writings

• Varieties of Fascism (1964).
• A Modern History of Europe ( 1971).
• Peasants Into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, 1880-1914 (1976).
• France, Fin de siecle (1986).
• The Hollow Years ( 1994).
• Apocalypses (1999).