Ernst Nolte
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Professor Ernst Nolte |
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| Born |
11 January 1923 Witten, Germany |
| Died | 18 August 2016 (aged 93) Berlin, Germany |
| Nationality | German |
| Education | PhD in Philosophy (1952) |
| Alma mater |
University of Münster University of Berlin University of Freiburg University of Cologne |
| Occupation | Philosopher and historian. |
| Employer |
University of Marburg (1965–1973) Free University of Berlin (since 1973, Emeritus since 1991) |
| Known for | Articulating a theory of generic fascism as “resistance to transcendence”, and for his involvement in the Historikerstreit debate |
| Spouse(s) | Annedore Mortier |
| Children | Georg Nolte |
| Awards |
Hanns Martin Schleyer Prize (1985) Konrad Adenauer Prize (2000) Gerhard Löwenthal Honor Award (2011) |
Ernst Nolte (11 January 1923 – 18 August 2016) was a German historian and philosopher. Nolte’s major interest was the comparative studies of fascism and communism (cf. Comparison of Nazism and Stalinism). Originally trained in philosophy, he was professor emeritus of modern history at the Free University of Berlin, where he taught from 1973 until his 1991 retirement. He was previously a professor at the University of Marburg from 1965 to 1973. He was best known for his seminal work Fascism In Its Epoch, which received widespread acclaim when it was published in 1963. Nolte was a prominent conservative academic since the early 1960s and was involved in many controversies related to the interpretation of the history of fascism and communism, including the Historikerstreit in the late 1980s. In recent years, Nolte focused on Islamism and "Islamic fascism". He was the father of legal scholar Georg Nolte. Nolte received several prizes, including the Hanns Martin Schleyer Prize and the Konrad Adenauer Prize.
Nolte was born in Witten, Westphalia, Germany, to a Roman Catholic family. Nolte's parents were Heinrich Nolte, a school rector, and Anna (née Bruns) Nolte. According to Nolte in a March 28, 2003 interview with a French newspaper Eurozine, his first encounter with communism occurred when he was 7 years old in 1930, when he read in a doctor's office a German translation of a Soviet children's book attacking the Catholic Church, which angered him.
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