Peter Oliver Loew

Peter Oliver Loew ( * 1967 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German historian, translator and university professor with a focus on the history of Poland.

Life

Peter Oliver Loew studied in Nuremberg, Freiburg im Breisgau, and at the Free University of Berlin History of Eastern Europe, Slavic Studies and Economics. In 2001 he received his doctorate with a thesis on local historical culture of Gdańsk 1793-1997 since 2002., He is a researcher at the German Poland Institute in Darmstadt.

Loew deals with the history of German -Polish relations in the modern era, with regional and local history, especially the history of Gdańsk and Pomerania, with minority history and cultural aspects of the history of East Central Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries.

For 2006/2007 Peter Oliver Loew got a teaching position at the University of Mainz, since 2009 he teaches at the University of Darmstadt. Since then he has translated books from Polish and English.

For 2013, the Prize was awarded to the Jablonowski.

Scientific interests

  • History of Poland
  • Germany and the German -Polish relations in the modern era
  • History and present of Danzig
  • Pomerania and Pomerania
  • History of Silesia
  • History of Historical Culture
  • Literature and music history
  • Comparative history of East Central Europe

Publications (selection)

  • (together with Jarosław Ellwart :) Śladami Bismarcka po Pomorzu. Region, Gdynia 2001, ISBN 83-87400-60-2. German edition: On Bismarck tracks in Pomerania. A historical- tourist guide. Region, Gdynia 2003, ISBN 83-87400-78-5
  • Danzig and his past in 1793 until 1997. Historians culture of a city between Germany and Poland. Fibre, Osnabrück 2003, ISBN 3-929759-73- X
  • (Ed. :) Poland thinks Europe. Political texts of two centuries. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-518-41621-9
  • Literacki Gdańsk ( 1793-1945 ). Mestwin, Gdańsk 2005.
  • Gdańsk. Między mitami. Borussia, Olsztyn 2006.
  • Literary Guide Gdańsk. Night city walks. German Cultural Forum for Eastern European Studies, Potsdam 2009, ISBN 978-3-936168-43-3
  • The literary Gdansk 1793 to 1945. Modules for a local cultural history. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main, inter alia, 2009, ISBN 978-3-631-57571-0
  • Danzig. Biography of a city. C. H. Beck, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-406-60587-1
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