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Born December 7, 1926 ( 1926-12-07 ) Hamburg, Germany Education University of Chicago (1951) Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada Books Historiography in the twentieth, The Social History of Politics, The German conceptio, New directions in Europe, The cult of authority Similar Leopold von Ranke, Fernando Sánchez Marcos, Laurent Wirth, Claude Henri de Rouvroy | ||
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Georg G. Iggers is a historian of modern Europe, historiography, and European intellectual history. He is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at University of Buffalo and 2007 recipient of the First Class Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. Iggers has received the Humboldt Prize, honorary doctorate degrees from the University of Richmond, Technische Universität Darmstadt, and Philander Smith College, and fellowships from the American Philosophical Society, Fulbright Foundation, Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, and Rockefeller Foundation.
Iggers was born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1926. Being a Jew he fled Germany with his family to the US in 1936, only few weeks before the Kristallnacht. He studied history at the University of Richmond, University of Chicago and New School of Social Research. Since 1965 he has been a professor of history at the State University of New York, Buffalo.
He is especially noted for his writings on historiography.