Name Theodore Hamerow | Education Yale University | |
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Books Why We Watched, Restoration - Revolution - Reaction, On the Road to the Wolfs Lair, The birth of a new Europe, Reflections on history and histor | ||
Theodore Stephen Hamerow (August 24, 1920 – February 16, 2013) was an American historian, focussing on modern history, especially German history of the 19th and 20th century.
Born to Jewish parents in Warsaw, Hamerow moved to the United States with his family in 1930. He earned his bachelor's from City College of New York, followed by a master's from Columbia University. In 1951, he earned his doctorate under supervision of Hajo Holborn at Yale University.
Hamerow was a professor of German history at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign from 1952 to 1958, before joining faculty at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he taught until 1991.
Hamerow died in Madison, Wisconsin, in 2013.
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