Georg g iggers biography examples

American historian (–)

Georg Gerson Iggers (December 7, – November 26, ) was an American historian of modern Europe, historiography, and European intellectual history.^[1]

Life and career

Iggers was born in Hamburg, Germany, in Being a German Jew he fled Germany with his family to the US in , only few weeks before the Kristallnacht.^[2] Iggers belonged to the young émigrés from the Third Reich who later in life, as academic scholars in the United States, had a decisive impact on reviewing critically the history of Germany.^[3]

In , Iggers became the first White brother initiated into Phi Beta Sigma, a historically Black fraternity.

He was visiting professor at the Technische Universität Darmstadt in ^[4] He was Distinguished Professor Emeritus at University of Buff