Edgar Feuchtwanger

Edgar Feuchtwanger ( born September 28, 1924 in Munich) is a German - British historian.

Life

Edgar Feuchtwanger is the son of the publisher Ludwig Feuchtwanger and the nephew of the writer Lion Feuchtwanger. As a child he lived with his family in Munich near the private residence of Hitler. He attended elementary school and then from 1935 to 1938 the Maximilian Gymnasium in his hometown. In February 1939, the family emigrated to England. Feuchtwanger attended Winchester College, made ​​from 1943 to 1944 military service and studied from 1944 to 1947 at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he received his doctorate in 1947. In 1948, he first taught adult education and history in 1963 at the University of Southampton. 1981/82 he was Visiting Professor at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. 2003, the Federal Cross of Merit awarded him.

Works

Feuchtwanger works on German and British history of the 19th and 20th centuries.

  • Disraeli, democracy and the Tory party conservative leadership and organization after the second reform bill. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1968.
  • Prussia: myth and reality: The role of Prussia in German history. London, 1970; German edition: Prussia: Myth and reality. Frankfurt am Main in 1972.
  • Upheaval and continuity: A century of German history. London 1973, ISBN 0-85496-133- X.
  • Gladstone. London 1975.
  • Air power in the next generation. London 1979, ISBN 0-333-23609-2.
  • The Soviet Union and the Third World. London 1981, ISBN 0-333-28736-3 (together with Peter Nailor ).
  • Democracy and empire: Britain, 1865-1914. London, 1985, ISBN 0-7131-6161-2, ISBN 0-7131-6162-0.
  • From Weimar to Hitler: Germany, 1918-33. London 1993.
  • Imperial Germany 1850-1918. London 2001, ISBN 0-415-20789-4, ISBN 0-415-20788-6.
  • Bismarck. London 2002, ISBN 0-415-21613-3, ISBN 0-415-21614-1.
  • Queen Victoria and her time. Equals / Zurich 2004, ISBN 3-7881-0157-1 (together with Christian Müller).
  • Albert and Victoria: The rise and fall of the house of Saxe -Coburg- Gotha. London, 2006, ISBN 1-85285-461-8, ISBN 978-1-84725-015-5.
  • Hitler, mon voisin: Souvenirs d' un enfant Juif (translated: Hitler, my neighbor memories of a Jewish child. ). Lafon, Neuilly -sur -Seine in 2013.
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