Jürgen Osterhammel Named 2017 Toynbee Prize Winner

Njemački povjesničar Jürgen Osterhammel dobitnik je nagrade Arnold Toynbee za 2017. kao istaknuti praktičar globalne historije. Poznat je po knjizi “Die Verwandlung der Welt. Eine Geschichte des 19. Jahrhunderts” (“The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century”) o kojoj je namjeravala pisati Mirjana Gross.

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The Toynbee Prize Foundation has selected Jürgen Osterhammel as the recipient of the 2017 Toynbee Prize. The Prize, given every other year to a distinguished practitioner of global history will be formally awarded at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association in Denver, Colorado on January 6, 2017.

Osterhammel is Professor of History at the University of Konstanz. He is perhaps best known to readers of global history for his global history of the nineteenth century, which appeared as “Die Verwandlung der Welt” in German in 2009. A revised and updated version of Verwandlung appeared in English translation as “The Transformation of the World” with Princeton University Press in 2014. Reviewers called it “doubtlessly the most significant achievement of a German-speaking historian in the 21st century thus far.” It has or will be translated into 9 languages and has been published in six editions since its appearance.

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