Peter G. J. Pulzer

Peter George Julius Pulzer (29 May 1929 – 26 January 2023) was an Austrian-born British historian who was Gladstone Professor of Government at the University of Oxford from 1985 till 1996.

Peter G. J. Pulzer
Born
Peter George Julius Pulzer

(1929-05-29)29 May 1929
Died26 January 2023(2023-01-26) (aged 93)
NationalityBritish
OccupationHistorian

Biography

Peter G. J. Pulzer was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1929 and his family migrated to the United Kingdom in 1939.[1] He studied history at Cambridge University and gained a doctorate. Pulzer's 1966 book "The Emergence of Political Anti-Semitism in Germany and Austria 1867–1914" was published, the book was critically acclaimed in the academic work and well regarded concerning the research of anti-Semitism and is still regarded as the benchmark standard regarding such research.[2][3][4]

Pulzer died on 27 January 2023, at the age of 93.[5]

Honours

In 2008, Peter G. J. Pulzer received the Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria.[6]

Works

  • The rise of political anti-Semitism in Germany and Austria. J. Wiley, New York 1964. Übersetzung: Die Entstehung des politischen Antisemitismus in Deutschland und Österreich 1867–1914. Sigbert Mohn, Gütersloh 1966; durchgesehene und erweiterte Neuausgabe: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-525-36954-9 (with Forschungsbericht).
  • Political representation and elections in Britain (= Studies in political science. Band 1). Allen & Unwin, London 1967.
  • Germany 1870–1945. Politics, state formation, and war. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1997.
  • (with Wolfgang Benz, Arnold Paucker) Jüdisches Leben in der Weimarer Republik / Jews in the Weimar Republic (= Schriftenreihe wissenschaftlicher Abhandlungen des Leo Baeck Instituts. Band 57). Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 1998.
  • (with Kurt Richard Luther) Austria 1945–95. Fifty years of the Second Republic. Ashgate, Aldershot 1998.
  • Fog in Channel. Anglo-German perspectives in the nineteenth century. German Historical Institute, London 2000.
  • Jews and the German state. The political history of a minority, 1848–1933. Blackwell, Oxford 1992.

References

  1. "Uni Wien ehrt drei NS-Flüchtlinge". 2 December 2012.
  2. "Rache für Königgrätz". Spiegel.de. 6 November 1966.
  3. "Schuld und Leiden". Der Tagesspiegel Online. 2 November 2007.
  4. "ZEIT ONLINE | Lesen Sie zeit.de mit Werbung oder im PUR-Abo. Sie haben die Wahl". Archived from the original on 24 January 2016.
  5. "Professor Peter Pulzer (1929–2023)". All Souls College, University of Oxford. Retrieved 28 January 2023.
  6. "10542/AB XXIV. GP" (PDF). Parlament.gv.at. Retrieved 13 February 2022.


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