Karl Schweizer

Born
AwardsAdèle Mellen Prize (1989)
Academic background
Alma materWilfrid Laurier University(BA)
University of Waterloo (MA)
University of Cambridge (PhD)
ThesisFrederick the Great, William Pitt and Lord Bute: The Origin, Development and Dissolution of the Anglo-Prussian Alliance, 1756–63 (1976)
Academic advisorsHerbert Butterfield
Academic work
DisciplineHistory
Sub-discipline18th-century European history
InstitutionsNew Jersey Institute of Technology
Rutgers University

Karl Wolfgang Schweizer FRSA FRHistS is a historian specialising in eighteenth century European history.

Education and academic career

Schweizer was born in Germany and was educated at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, where he graduated with a BA in 1969, and in 1970 he earned his MA at the University of Waterloo. In 1976, he was awarded a PhD from the University of Cambridge,[1] where he studied with Herbert Butterfield.[2] His doctoral dissertation was titled "Frederick the Great, William Pitt and Lord Bute: The Origin, Development and Dissolution of the Anglo-Prussian Alliance, 1756–63".[3]

In 1988, Schweizer was appointed chairman of the Humanities Department at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), a post he held until 1993 and again during 2001–2003.[1] Since 2000, he has been professor of history at the NJIT/Rutgers Federated History Department.[1] In 1994, he was appointed a member of the Graduate School, Rutgers University.[2]

Jeremy Black has said that among those interested in eighteenth century European international relations, Schweizer "has a deservedly high reputation for a number of judicious and important monographs'[3] In 2020, Schweizer was awarded the 2020 CSLA Lifetime Achievement Award from the College of Science and Liberal Arts, New Jersey Institute of Technology.[1] He is a Fellow of Royal Historical Society, the Royal Society of Arts and the New York Academy of Sciences.[2] He has also been awarded the Congressional Order of Merit, USA and has held fellowships/visiting appointments at Princeton, Cambridge, Yale and the London School of Economics. Moreover, Dr Schweizer is , a Senior Fellow of the Foreign Policy Research Institute, Philadelphia, PA. He has won numerous literary awards for his work, including the Adèle Mellen Prize (1989 and 2016)and the NEW Jersey"s Writer Conference AWARD(1994).

Works

Books

Editor, Studies in History and politics/Etudes d"Histoire et politiques(1980-1989)

Articles

  • 'Lord Bute, Newcastle, Prussia, and the Hague Overtures: A Re-Examination', Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies, Vol. 9, No. 1 (Spring, 1977), pp. 72–97.
  • 'William Pitt, Lord Bute, and the Peace Negotiations with France, May–September 1761', Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies, Vol. 13, No. 3 (Autumn, 1981), pp. 262–275.
  • (with Carol S. Leonard), 'Britain, Prussia, Russia and the Galitzin Letter: A Reassessment', The Historical Journal, Vol. 26, No. 3 (Sep., 1983), pp. 531–556.
  • 'Edward Weston (1703–70): The Papers of an Eighteenth-Century Under-Secretary in the Lewis Walpole Library', The Yale University Library Gazette, Vol. 71, No. 1/2 (October 1996), pp. 43–48.
  • 'Jacobite Material among the Scottish Loudoun Papers', Huntington Library Quarterly, Vol. 61, No. 1 (1998), pp. 101–105.

As well as over 270 articles/reviews in scholarly journals and reference works.

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 'Karl Schweizer', New Jersey Institute of Technology website. Retrieved 10 January 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 'Karl W. Schweizer', Rutgers University website. Retrieved 10 January 2021.
  3. 1 2 Jeremy Black, 'Reviewed Work: England, Prussia, and the Seven Years' War by Karl W. Schweizer', The International History Review, Vol. 11, No. 3 (Aug., 1989), p. 540.
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