Robert Jan van Pelt

Robert Jan van Pelt ( born August 15, 1955 in Haarlem, The Netherlands;, Robert -Jan van Pelt ) is a Dutch architectural historian.

Life

After studying art history and archeology that Pelt phil at Leiden University with the Dr.. graduated, his specialty is the architecture and history of urban development. He teaches as Professor of Cultural History at the Institute of Architecture of Waterloo University in Ontario, Canada. He also teaches at the universities of London, Singapore and the United States.

He was especially with its architecture historical works known about Auschwitz. For this he received the 1996 " National Jewish Book Award " and the 1997 " Spiro Kostof Award" of the Society of Architectural Historians. van Pelt appeared in the trial of David Irving and summed up his opinion in 2002 in a book together.

Robert Jan van Pelt is a member of the International Advisory Board of the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI) since 2010.

Writings (selection )

• Carroll William Westfall: Architectural Principles in the Age of Historicism. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, among other things, 1991, ISBN 0-300-04999-4.
• A Site in Search of a Mission. In: Yisrael Gutman, Michael Berenbaum (ed.): Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp. Indiana University Press, Bloomington IN 1994, ISBN 0-253-32684-2, pp. 93-156.
• With Jean -Claude Pressac: The Machinery of Mass Murder at Auschwitz. In: Yisrael Gutman, Michael Berenbaum (ed.): Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp. Indiana University Press, Bloomington IN 1994, ISBN 0-253-32684-2, pp. 183-245.
• With Deborah Dwork: Auschwitz, 1270 to the present. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, among others 1996, ISBN 0-300-06755-0 ( In German: Auschwitz from 1270 to today Pendo, Zurich, inter alia, 1998, ISBN 3-85842-334-3. . ).
• The case for Auschwitz. Evidence from the Irving Trial. Indiana University Press, Bloomington IN others 2002, ISBN 0-253-34016-0.