Riccardo Bavaj

Riccardo Bavaj (* 1976 in Aachen ) is a German historian.

Life

Riccardo Bavaj studied Medieval and Modern History, Eastern European History and Economics at the Universities of Bonn and Southampton. He holds an MA degree in 2001 and received his doctorate in 2004. After working as a research intern at the Institute of Westphalian regional history in 2005 he moved to the University of St Andrews in Scotland where he teaches German and European history of the 20th century. From 2009 to 2011 Riccardo Bavaj research as a Feodor - Lynen fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in the U.S. and was a visiting professor at Saint Louis University.

Bavaj has published on the history of the Weimar Republic, National Socialism, liberalism after 1945 as well as the phenomena of the "West " and of European modernity and deals mainly with themes of ideas, concepts and space history.

Awards

From 2002 to 2004, Riccardo Bavaj PhD scholar of the Foundation of the German people and 2005 Research Fellow of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation. Since 2006 he is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society since 2007 and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. 2009 Bavaj received the Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship, which is awarded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

Writings

  • The ambivalence of modernity in National Socialism. A review of the research. Oldenbourg, München 2003, ISBN 3-486-56752-7.
  • From left to Weimar. Left anti- parliamentary thinking in the Weimar Republic ( = political and social history. Vol. 67). J.H.W. Dietz Nachf., Bonn 2005, ISBN 3-8012-4155-6.
  • (edited together with Florentine Fritzen ) Germany - a country without a revolutionary traditions? Revolutions in Germany in the 19th and 20th century in the light of recent humanities and cultural-historical knowledge. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main, inter alia, 2005, ISBN 3-631-52871- X.
  • Article Intellectual History, Version 1.0, in: Docupedia - time story, published on September 13, 2010
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