Leonhard Harding
German historian of modern age
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Leonhard Harding is a German historian and scholar in African studies. Biography Leonhard Harding attended elementary school in Paderborn for four years. From 1948 to 1956 he attended high schools in Rietberg and Großkrotzenburg. In 1956 the matriculation examination followed. He studied philosophy for four semesters at the philosophical college of the White Fathers in Trier. From 1959 to 1963 he studied Catholic theology and history of missions in Leuven. In 1963 he began studying history at the Saarland University. In 1965 he passed the secondary school teacher examination for history. Then he went to Cologne. From 1969 he was a student at the Free University of Berlin. Under the direction of :de:Franz Ansprenger , he dealt with problems in Africa's colonial history. In 1972 he received his doctorate from Ansprenger at the Free University of Berlin with a thesis on French religious policy in West Africa. In it he examined the French religious policy in the colony "Soudan Français", the area of today's states Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger. Harding worked at the African Politics Office at the Free University of Berlin. From 1981 to 2001, Harding taught as a professor of African history at the Historical Seminar of the University of Hamburg.
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