Theodore Stephen Hamerow (August 24, 1920 – February 16, 2013) was a Polish-born American historian, focusing on modern history, especially German history of the 19th and 20th century.[1][2]

Life and career

Born to Jewish parents in Warsaw, Hamerow moved via France to the United States with his family in 1930.[3] He earned his bachelor's degree from City College of New York in 1942, followed by a master's from Columbia University in 1947. In 1951, he earned his doctorate under supervision of Hajo Holborn at Yale University.[3][4]

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.[3]

Hamerow died in Madison, Wisconsin, in 2013.[3][4]

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Further reading

References

  1. ^ Andreas W. Daum, Hartmut Lehmann, James J. Sheehan (eds.), The Second Generation: Émigrés from Nazi Germany as Historians. With a Biobibliographic Guide. New York: Berghahn Books, 2016, ISBN 978-1-78238-985-9, pp. 7, 34, 289‒90, 378‒79.
  2. ^ Theodore Stephen Hamerow
  3. ^ a b c d "Theodore Stephen Hamerow". Wisconsin State Journal. February 24, 2013. p. 14. Retrieved February 9, 2020 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  4. ^ a b Theodore Hamerow (1920–2013)

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