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Georg Iggers (1926–2017)
Georg Iggers was a historian and social activist whose long career included teaching at Philander Smith College in the 1950s. Iggers, a German native, left Philander Smith in 1957 and eventually settled at the University of Buffalo, where he spent his subsequent four-decade career.
Georg Iggers was born in Hamburg, Germany, on December 7, 1926. He and his Jewish family fled Germany and the Nazis in the fall of 1938. They originally landed in New York City and relocated to Richmond, Virginia, in early 1939. Iggers earned a bachelor’s degree in romance languages from the University of Richmond at the age of seventeen, before going on to earn both a master’s in Germanics and a PhD in history from the University of Chicago. Iggers met Wilma Abeles, a Jewish refugee from Czechoslovakia, at the University of Chicago, and they married in 1948.
After finishing their studies—Wilma earned a PhD in Germanic languages and literature—the couple took positions at the h
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Georg G. Iggers (1926-2017)
Georg Gerson Iggers, a world-renowned historiographer and co-founder of the International kommission for the History and Theory of Historiography (ICHTH), passed away in Buffalo, New York, on November 26, 2017. He was ninety years old.
Born into a Jewish family on December 7, 1926 in Hamburg, Germany, Iggers received his early education there until twelve. He recalled that he had had a relatively happy childhood in the city, in spite of several episodes of anti-Semitism. Yet as the Nazi government intensified its persecution of the Jews, the Iggers family decided to leave the country for the United States. They arrived in New York in October 1938, narrowly escaped the infamous Kristallnacht. A couple of months later, the family was relocated in Richmond, Virginia where Iggers continued his education. He attended University of Richmond, majoring in French and Spanish. Having suffered racial discrimination as a child in Germany, Iggers was app
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Obituaries
Georg G. Iggers, a SUNY Distinguished Professor Emeritus and internationally renowned historian and civil rights advocate, died Nov. 26 in Canterbury Woods, Amherst, of complications from a cerebral hemorrhage. He was 90.
A UB faculty member for more than 40 years, Iggers had a profound influence on two of the most important political movements of the 20th century: the American civil rights movement and the 1989 political revolution in East Germany.
Born in Hamburg, anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany led Iggers and his family to flee to the United States in 1938, a few weeks before Kristallnacht, settling in Richmond, Va. He earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Richmond, and master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Chicago, where met his future wife, Wilma Abeles, a refugee from Czechoslovakia. They were married in 1948.
In 1950, Iggers and his wife took positions at a historically black college, Philander Smith College, in Little Roc