Alfred Hermann Friedrich Vagts (December 1, 1892 in Basbeck – June 19, 1986 in Cambridge, MA) was a German poet and historian.
Alfred Vagts
Born
(1892-12-01)December 1, 1892
Basbeck
Died
June 19, 1986(1986-06-19) (aged 93)
Cambridge
Nationality
German, US
Occupation(s)
Historian, poet
Notable work
The History Of Militarism
Vagts served in the First World War as a captain in the German military and was awarded the Iron Cross first class. In the years 1923-1932 Vagts was a historian at the Institut für auswärtige Politik (Institute for Foreign Affairs) at the Hamburg university. In this role Vagts visited the Yale university in the United States where he worked with American historian Charles A. Beard. In 1927 he married Beard's daughter, Miriam.[1] Their son, Detlev, was born in 1929.[2]
In 1932, with the rise of Nazism, the Vagts family left Germany for the UK. In 1933 they moved to the US, where Alfred became a US citizen. Initially he worked as an independent scholar. Between 1938 and 1939, he was a visiting professor at Harvard University before becoming a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, where he remained until 1942. Then, until the end of WWII, Vagts served on the Board of Economic Warfare. After the war, and until his death, Vagts continued to work as an independent scholar[3]
Vagts's work comprises scientific and literary books as well as essays. His most well known work is The History of Militarism, Civilian and Military.[4] Vagts collaborated with Hajo Holborn, Eckhart Kehr, George W. Hallgarten, Fritz T. Epstein and Hans Rosenberg.[3]
Bibliographyedit
The History Of Militarism, New York, 1937 online
Beard, Charles A., and Alfred Vagts. "Currents of thought in Historiography." American Historical Review 42.3 (1937): 460–483. online
"Hopes and Fears of an American-German War, 1870–1915 I." Political Science Quarterly 54.4 (1939): 514-535 online.
Alfred Vagts and Caroline Farrar Ware, The Cultural Approach to History, 1940
Hitler's Second Army, Washington, 1943
Geography in War and Geopolitics, 1943
Landing Operations: Strategy, Psychology, Tactics, Politics, from Antiquity to 1945, Harrisburg, 1946
"The balance of power: Growth of an idea." World Politics: A Quarterly Journal of International Relations (1948): 82–101. online
Defense and Diplomacy: The Soldier and the Conduct of Foreign Relations, London/New York, 1956
The Military Attaché, Princeton UP, 1967 online
Referencesedit
^"MIRIAM BEARD VAGTS". The New York Times. September 7, 1983. Retrieved May 29, 2019.
^"Detlev F. Vagts '51: 1929-2013". Harvard Law Today. January 1, 2014. Retrieved May 29, 2019.
^ abClaus-Dieter Krohn: Geschichtswissenschaften. In: Claus-Dieter Krohn u. a. (Ed.): Handbuch der deutschsprachigen Emigration 1933–1945. Darmstadt 1998, pp. 747–760.
^Crim, Brian (1999). "Vagts, Alfred". Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing. Vol. 2. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers. p. 1251.
Further readingedit
Rinke, Stefan H. "Clio in Exile: The Historiography of Alfred Vagts" Yearbook of German-American Studies (1991), Vol. 26, pp 267–281.
January 01, 1970
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