Erich Angermann


Erich Angermann was a German historian for North American history at the University of Cologne.

Life

Angermann was born in 1927 as the son of an elementary school teacher in Chemnitz. He attended the humanistic. From 1947 he studied history, German and English language and literature at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. In 1952 he received his doctorate under Franz Schnabel on the subject Karl Mathy als Sozial- und Wirtschaftspolitiker 1842–48. From 1952 Angermann was scientific assistant of the and at the Amerika-Institut. In 1961 followed the Habilitation with Franz Schnabel with a thesis on the liberal political scientist and politician Robert von Mohl. In 1963 he was appointed to a chair of modern history with special emphasis on North American history at the University of Cologne, a position he held until his retirement in 1992. His successor to the chair was Jürgen Heideking.
Angermann's pupils include Horst Dippel, Michael Klöcker, Hermann Wellenreuther, Arnd Krüger, Norbert Finzsch, Vera Nünning, Torsten Oppelland and Klaus Larres. Wellenreuther dedicated his book Von Chaos und Krieg zu Ordnung und Frieden. Der Amerikanischen Revolution erster Teil, 1775–1783 to his teacher Angermann.
In the winter semester 1970/71 Angermann was a visiting professor at St Antony's College, Oxford. From 1971 Angermann was a full member of the Historical Commission. In 1982/1983 he was a research fellow at the in Munich. As research fellow he made the American Civil War in the college year the main focus of his research in comparison with the Central European fights for unification in the third quarter of the 19th century. In 1984 he became an honorary member of the Academy for the Humanities and the Sciences, City University of New York.
Angermann died in Herrsching am Ammersee at the age of 65.

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