Hermann von der Dunk
Dutch historian
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- PhD History Utrecht University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Hermann Walther von der Dunk was a Dutch historian of German origin. Life Von der Dunk's family fled from Nazi-Germany to the Netherlands in 1937. As his mother was Jewish, his father could not find any work under National Socialist regime. His father found a position at the school of Kees Boeke in Bilthoven. Later, Hermann von der Dunk visited the nearby University of Utrecht. There, he studied history under professor Pieter Geyl and later studied at the Leibniz Institute of European History in Mainz. In 1966 he finished his dissertation on "Der Deutsche Vormärz und Belgien, 1930-1948" . One year later, in 1967, von der Dunk became professor for modern and contemporary history as well as cultural history at the University of Utrecht and stayed in this position until 1990. His early retirement was a reaction to the commercialization and bureaucratization of the universities. He specialized in European and Dutch history, as well as Dutch-German relationships. Much of his work focused on "modernity and anti-modern responses", he wrote several monographs and regularly published articles in Dutch newspapers and journals. In 1995 he received the Goethe Medal.
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