- Gregor Thum
Gregor Thum (b.
2 May ,1967 inMunich ) is a German historian currently teaching at theUniversity of Pittsburgh .From 1988 through 1995, Thum studied history and
Slavic studies at theFree University of Berlin . From 1995 to 2001, he was a lecturer at professorKarl Schlögel 's chair for East European history atViadrina European University inFrankfurt an der Oder . There he worked on a Ph.D. thesis about the transformation of German Breslau into Polish Wrocław from 1945 onwards. Completed in 2002 and published as a book the following year, the thesis was very successful on the general book market by the standards of historical monographies. Thum received several awards in both Germany and Poland. Since 2003, Thum has held the position of a DAAD visiting assistant professor at the Department of History of the University of Pittsburgh.In 2007, Thum was awarded the honorary title "Ambassador of Wrocław" by the local edition of
Gazeta Wyborcza [Beata Maciejewska, "Gregor Thum Ambasadorem Wrocławia", "Gazeta Wyborcza Wrocław", 2007-05-09, retrieved 2008-07-07 [http://miasta.gazeta.pl/wroclaw/1,78999,4141046.html] ] , prevailing over prominent nominees likeLech Janerka ,Marek Krajewski , Maciej Łagiewski,Jan Miodek , andBogdan Zdrojewski ["Nominowani do tytułu Ambasadora Wrocławia", "Gazeta Wyborcza Wrocław", 2007-05-09, retrieved 2008-07-07 [http://miasta.gazeta.pl/wroclaw/1,78999,4118409.html] ] .Books
*1998 (ed. with Katharina Kucher, Karl Schlögel, Bernhard Suchy): "Chronik russischen Lebens in Deutschland, 1918-1941" [A Chronicle of Russian Life in Germany, 1918-1941] . Berlin: Akademie Verlag, ISBN 3-03-003297-9
*2003: "Die fremde Stadt. Breslau 1945" [The Foreign City. Breslau in 1945] , Berlin: Siedler, ISBN 978-3886807956
*2008 (ed.): "Traumland Osten. Deutsche Bilder vom östlichen Europa im 20. Jahrhundert" [Dreamland East. German Images of Eastern Europe in the 20th century] , Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, ISBN 3525362951References
External links
* [http://www.pitt.edu/~pitthist/faculty/gregorthumcv.html Thum's resume at the University of Pittsburgh]
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SHORT DESCRIPTION=Historian
DATE OF BIRTH=May 2 ,1967
PLACE OF BIRTH=Munich ,Germany
DATE OF DEATH=living
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