Dr. Hartmut Bergenthum (Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Germany)

Submitted: Thur, 17 August 2006

Dr. Hartmut Bergenthum
Librarian for Africa South of the Sahara
University Library Johann Christian Senckenberg
Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität
Frankfurt am Main
Bockenheimer Landstrasse 134-138
60325
Frankfurt/Main
Germany

phone:  +49(0)69-798-39246
fax:    +49(0)69-798-39398
e-mail: h.bergenthum@ub.uni-frankfurt.de

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


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.

Main Publications and research interests:
-- [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.