Theodore S. Hamerow

Theodore Stephen Hamerow (August 24, 1920 – February 16, 2013) was a Polish-born American historian, focusing on modern history, especially German history of the 19th and 20th century.

Life and career

Born to Jewish parents in Warsaw, Hamerow moved via France to the United States with his family in 1930. He earned his bachelor's degree from City College of New York in 1942, followed by a master's from Columbia University in 1947. In 1951, he earned his doctorate under supervision of Hajo Holborn at Yale University.

Hamerow was a professor of German history at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign from 1952 to 1958, before joining faculty at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he taught until 1991.

Hamerow died in Madison, Wisconsin, in 2013.

Selected works

• Restoration, Revolution, Reaction: Economics and Politics in Germany, 1815–1871 (1958)
• Social Foundations of German Unification, 1858–1871, 2 vols. (1969–72)
• (ed.), The Age of Bismarck: Documents and Interpretations (Harper/Evanston, New York, NY/London 1972)
• Reflections on History and Historians (1987)
• On the Road to Wolf's Lair: German Resistance to Hitler (1997)
• Why We Watched: Europe, America, and the Holocaust (2008)

Further reading

• Theodore S. Hamerow, Remembering a Vanished World. A Jewish Childhood in Interwar Poland (2001)
• Andreas Daum, "Refugees from Nazi Germany as Historians: Origins and Migrations, Interests and Identities", in The Second Generation: Émigrés from Nazi Germany as Historians. With a Biobibliographic Guide, ed. Daum, Hartmut Lehmann, James J. Sheehan. New York: Berghahn Books, 2016, ISBN 978-1-78238-985-9, 1‒52.

External links

• Theodore S. Hamerow at Find a Grave