Hartmut Bergenthum

Region of Interest

Africa

Primary Country of Residence

Germany

Title

Dr., Librarian for Africa South of the Sahara

Affiliation

Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main, German

Email

h.bergenthum@ub.uni-frankfurt.de

Mailing Address

University Library Johann Christian Senckenberg
Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität
Frankfurt am Main
Bockenheimer Landstrasse 134-138
60325
Frankfurt/Main
Germany

Phone/Fax Number(s)

phone: +49(0)69-798-39246
fax: +49(0)69-798-39398

Websites

http://www.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/ssg/eafrika.html

Countries of Specialization

Kenya

Research Interests

Current Position:
-- Subject Specialist "Africa South of the Sahara", "Oceania" and
"Geography"
-- Collection Development and Reference for African Studies at the
University of Frankfurt
-- Curator of the Special Collection "Africa South of the Sahara" funded
by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation)
since 1964. The Collection serves the information needs of scientists in
the whole of Germany. Subjects and countries covered make this Africana
collection unique in Germany.

Publications

-- [Historiography in Kenya, published PhD-Thesis] Geschichtswissenschaft
in Kenia in der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts.
Herausforderungen, Vielfalt, Grenzen, Münster 2004.
-- [Popular World Histories in Germany, 1890-1914, published M.A.-Thesis]
Weltgeschichten im Zeitalter der Weltpolitik. Zur populären
Geschichtsschreibung im wilhelminischen Deutschland, München 2004.

Keywords

historiography; popular world histories ; Sub-Saharan Africa.