Heinz Gollwitzer

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Heinz Gollwitzer (30 January 1917 – 26 December 1999) was a German author and academic. He held the chair of Modern Political and Social History at the University of Münster.

Gollwitzer was born in Nuremberg and grew up in Munich. After being severely wounded in World War II he took up his studies (history and German literature) at the University of Munich, earning his Ph.D. in 1944. He earned his qualification to teach as a professor in 1950 with a thesis called “The Image of Europe and the European Thought – Contributions to the German History of Ideas”. He subsequently taught at universities in Munich and Münster until retiring in 1982. He died in Munich.


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  • Gollwitzer, Heinz (1969). Europe in the Age of Imperialism 1880 - 1914. London: Thames and Hudson. ISBN 0-500-33014-X. 
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