Roger Chickering

Roger Chickering ( born August 15, 1942 in San Francisco) is an American historian of modern times.

Biography

Roger Chickering studied at Cornell University, New York, where he took a BA in 1964, and at Stanford University, California. Where he graduated in 1965 with an MA from, he received his doctorate in 1968 and moved to the University of Oregon, where he first worked as an associate professor as a research assistant, from 1974. 1981 was appointed professor of history. He remained until 1994 in Oregon, since he is a professor of history at the BMW Center for German and European Studies from Georgetown University, Washington, DC.

1976/1977 he spent a semester as a visiting professor at the Free University of Berlin, 1984/1985 at the University of Munich. A research semester in Freiburg on MGFA followed 1991/1992. Roger Chickering speaks very good German and published his books partly in German. His work focuses on European history of the 19th and 20th century and the history of the Empire. The biography of the historian Karl Lamprecht is particularly noteworthy.

Writings

• Freiburg in the First World War, Paderborn 2009 ISBN 978-3-506-76542-0.
• The German Empire and the First World War, Munich 2002 ISBN 3-406-47592-2 (excerpts on Google Book Search ).
• Karl Lamprecht. A German academic life (1856 - 1915), Humanities Press, Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey, USA 1993, ISBN 0-391-03766-8.
• Imperial Germany and a World Without War. The Peace Movement and German Society, 1892-1914. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 1975, ISBN 0 - 691-05228 -X.