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Wolfgang Mommsen, 1930–2004

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2008

Fritz Stern
Affiliation:
Columbia University

Extract

One of our preeminent historians, Wolfgang Mommsen, died on August 11, 2004, at the age of seventy-three. Death came while he was swimming off Usedom, in the Baltic Sea. To speak of him as “ours” is to say at once that he was a treasured international presence for all of us, that he fully embodied the new transnational character of historical studies. His prodigious work and ebullient temper enriched the lives of his students, colleagues, and friends.

Type
Memorial
Copyright
Copyright © Conference Group for Central European History of the American Historical Association 2005

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