Richard H. Tilly

Richard Hugh Tilly ( born October 17, 1932 in Chicago) is an American economic and social historian and university teacher.

Life

Richard H. Tilly was born into a German family, but came only as an adult in closer contact with Germany.

Richard H. Tilly studied at the University of Wisconsin -Madison history and graduated in 1955 with a Bachelor of Arts. From 1955 to 1957 he did his military service, partly in Germany. From 1958 to 1961 he attended the Graduate School of the University of Wisconsin- Madison. With the aid of a scholarship he came to Cologne from 1961 to 1963 and worked on his dissertation on the German early industrialization in the Prussian Rhineland.

Since 1963, Tilly assistant professor at the University of Michigan, 1964, he was awarded his doctorate ( Ph.D. in Economics). Since 1966, Tilly taught at Yale University.

In the summer of 1966, Tilly was invited to give lectures in various German universities, but he met in Münster also the influential empirical economic research Walther G. Hoffmann. In Hoffmann's initiative Tilly was appointed in the fall of 1966 at the University of Münster to the Chair of the Economic and Social History and appointed director of the Institute for Economic and Social History at the University of Münster.

Richard H. Tilly took at times, visiting professor in the USA true. Since 1997 he is professor emeritus.

Richard H. Tilly is the brother of historian Charles Tilly (1929-2008) and the brother of historian Louise Tilly.

Services

Richard H. Tilly, the German economic history significantly modernized by the application of economic theories and econometric methods to the Economic and Social History ( New Economic History, Cliometrie ).

Main areas of work are Tilly's in economic history:

  • The early industrialization, and
  • The history of the company and its financing

And in social history:

  • The study of social protests.

Of outstanding importance for the economic history research were mainly Tilly's contributions to the history of the German banking sector and the large German companies. Similarly, Tilly's socio-historical works are considered seminal for the quantified study of social protests, such strikes and food riots.

Richard H. Tilly is a member of the Working Group on Banking history and the Society for Business History. He was one of the founders in 1974 of the journal History and Society and was editor of special issues of industrialization history. Since the 1990s, he published the Münster contributions to Kliometrie.

The aided by Tilly New Economic History has proven for economic historical research in Germany as a major innovation. Its lasting impact as an academic teacher can be seen from the fact that seven of his students at the beginning of the 21st century clad in economic history or economics professors, among others Hans -Heinrich Bass (born 1954 ), Rolf Horst Dumke ( * 1941 ), Rainer stranger (* 1944 ), Carl- Ludwig Holtfrerich (* 1942), Herrmann von Laer (* 1945) and Toni Pierenkemper (* 1944).

Honors

For his dissertation Richard H. Tilly was in 1964 with the Edwin Francis Gay Prize for Economic History.

On 10 December 2009 he was awarded the German Historical Institute Washington with the Helmut Schmidt Prize for German -American economic history.

Writings (selection )

Monographs

  • Willy H. Schlieker. The Rise and Fall of an entrepreneur (1914-1980), Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2008 ( Yearbook of Economic History Supplements 14. ), ISBN 978-3-05-004477-4.
  • Globalization from a historical perspective and learning from history, Cologne, 1999. ( Cologne lectures on Social and Economic History, No. 41).
  • Money and credit in economic history. Stuttgart: Steiner, 2003, ISBN 3-515-06785- X.
  • From Customs Union to an industrial state. The socio-economic development of Germany from 1834 to 1914. Munich: German Paperback -Verlag, 1990 ( German history of modern times ), ISBN 3- 423-04506 -X.
  • Capital, the state and social protest in the German industrialization. Collected Essays Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 1980, ISBN 3-525-35997-7.
  • Charles Tilly / Tilly Louise / Richard H. Tilly: The Rebellious Century: 1830-1930, Harvard: Harvard University Press, 1975, ISBN 0-674-74955-3, 9780674749559
  • Financial Institutions and industrialization in the Rhineland 1815-1870. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1966

Publisher

  • Richard Tilly / Paul JJ Welfens (ed.): Economic Globalization, International Organizations and Crisis Management: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives on Growth, Impact and Evolution of Major Organizations in to Interdependent World, ISBN 3-540-65863-7
  • Banking crises in Central Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries, Steiner, Stuttgart 2000
  • History of economic policy. From Mercantilism to the social market economy, Oldenbourg, Munich / Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-486-22640-1
  • Contributions to quantitative comparative history of the company, Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1985, ISBN 3-608-91325-4
  • Rainer stranger / Richard H. Tilly (ed.): Industrialization and space: studies on the regional differentiation in 19th century Germany, Klett- Cotta, Stuttgart 1979, ISBN 3-12-911070-4
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