American historian (1934?2021)
Jonathan Steinberg
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Born
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1934-03-08
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8 March 1934
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Died
| 4 March 2021
(2021-03-04)
(aged 86)
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Alma mater
| Harvard University
(B.A.)
Cambridge University
(Ph.D.)
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Occupation
| Professor of European History
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Jonathan Steinberg
(8 March 1934 ? 4 March 2021) was the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of European History Emeritus and Chair of the Department of History at the
University of Pennsylvania
.
Career
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Steinberg received his undergraduate degree from
Harvard University
and his PhD from
Cambridge University
. After serving for 33 years at Cambridge University as
University Lecturer
and then
Reader
in European History, Fellow of
Trinity Hall
, and Vice-Master, he taught at the University of Pennsylvania in
Philadelphia
.
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He was an emeritus fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and served as an External Examiner in Part II of the Cambridge History Tripos for 2009 to 2011.
Steinberg's teaching covered modern Europe since 1789 with specialization in the
German
and
Austrian Empires
,
Nazi Germany
,
Fascist Italy
and modern
Jewish history
. He also taught graduate seminars in historical thought and method and taught economic thought from
Adam Smith
to
Karl Marx
.
Publications
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He is the author of
Yesterday’s Deterrent: Tirpitz and the Birth of the German Battle Fleet
,
Why Switzerland?, All or Nothing: The Axis and the Holocaust
and
Die Deutsche Bank und ihre Goldtransaktionen im Zweiten Weltkrieg
(also published in English). His reviews have appeared in
The London Review of Books
,
The Evening Standard
,
The Financial Times
, and
The Times Literary Supplement
. In 2003 he completed
European History and European Lives, 1715 to 1914
, a 36-part series of biographies produced by
The Teaching Company
. Dr. Steinberg has also written many radio and TV documentaries, including
BBC Radio Four
's salute to the
Constitution of the United States
,
Secure in Their Persons
.
He was co-editor of
The Historical Journal
, Cambridge University Press, from 1990 to 2000. His biography of
Otto Von Bismarck
entitled
Bismarck: A Life
was published by
Oxford University Press
in 2011 and was short-listed for the BBC
Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction
in 2011 and short-listed for the
Duff Cooper Prize
in 2012.
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A German edition
Bismarck. Magier der Macht
was published by Propylaen Verlag, a subsidiary of Ullstein.
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In October 2012, a Danish edition published by Sohn and a Romanian edition published by Eikon appeared at the same time. A Japanese edition in two volumes appeared in 2012. A Brazilian edition (
Bismarck - Uma Vida
) appeared in 2015. A Russian and a Chinese edition are forthcoming. He has just completed a third and revised edition of
Why Switzerland?
which has been submitted to Cambridge University Press.
The biography of Bismarck was well received by scholars.
Jonathan Sperber
said it is, "Elegantly and forcefully written, with a thorough command of the scholarship on all the relevant aspects of nineteenth-century history and an equally thorough acquaintance with the printed sources."
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Robert M. Citino
wrote, "Happily, Steinberg's book triumphs....no other biography reflects such a careful reading of the secondary literature. By now, mastery of the enormous Bismarck literature can only be the product of a lifetime of reading and reflection. The result is synthesis in the classic style."
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Abigail Green
wrote, "Steinberg’s new biography of Bismarck has been widely acclaimed, and rightly so....As a deeply researched but accessible guide to the life of one of nineteenth-century Europe’s most compelling and significant political figures, it stands head and shoulders above other Bismarck biographies."
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Non-academic appointments
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Steinberg served as an expert witness in the Commonwealth of Australia War Crimes prosecution. He was also appointed to the Historical Commission of the
Deutsche Bank AG
,
Frankfurt am Main
to examine bank activity and gold transactions during
World War II
.
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He was a member of the Board of Trustees of
Franklin University Switzerland
in
Lugano
,
Switzerland
, and the Presidential Advisory Commission on Holocaust Assets.
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