Members of the Austrian Academy of Sciences - Leopold Vietoris, Konrad Lorenz, Hans Mommsen, Karl Dietrich Bracher (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 30. Chapters: Leopold Vietoris, Konrad Lorenz, Hans Mommsen, Karl Dietrich Bracher, Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, Anton Zeilinger, Walter Burkert, Roland Scholl, Peter Hall, Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd, Peter Zoller, Martin Gropius, Hans Tuppy, Giulio Superti-Furga, Walter Thirring, Jurgen Mittelstrass, Robert von Zimmermann, Anton Weichselbaum, Johannes Vahlen, Emil Zuckerkandl, Peter Schuster, Julius Wess, Ignaz Vincenz Zingerle, Herwig Wolfram, Manfred Mayrhofer, Josef Weninger. Excerpt: Hans Mommsen (born 5 November 1930) is a left-wing German historian. He is the twin brother of the late Wolfgang Mommsen. He was born in Marburg, the son of the historian Wilhelm Mommsen and great-grandson of the Roman historian Theodor Mommsen. He studied German, history and philosophy at the University of Heidelberg, the University of Tubingen and the University of Marburg. Mommsen served as professor at Tubingen (1960-1961), Heidelberg (1963-1968) and at the University of Bochum (since 1968). He married Margaretha Reindel in 1966. He has been a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany since 1960. Much of Mommsen's early work concerned the history of the German working class, both as an object of study itself and as a factor in the larger German society. Mommsen's 1979 book, Arbeiterbewegung und nationale Frage (The Labour Movement and the National Question), a collection of his essays written in the 1960s-70s was the conclusion of his studies in German working class history. Mommsen much prefers writing essays to books. Mommsen is a leading expert on Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. He is a functionalist in regard to the origins of the Holocaust, seeing the Final Solution as a result of the "cumulative radicalization" of the German state as opposed to a long-term plan on the part of Adolf Hitler. In Mommsen's view, Hitler was ..