Dietmar Rothermund is a Germany historian best known for his research in the economy of India.
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Dietmar Rothermund was born in 1933. He studied history and philosophy in Marburg and Munich, then when to the University of Pennsylvania where he studied American society and received a PhD in 1959. in Philadelphia with a thesis on the social history of America. Shortly thereafter he traveled to India on a scholarship from the German Research Foundation. In 1963 Heidelberg University gave him an appointment as a research assistant and in 1968 he got tenure and was given the Chair of South Asian History.[1]