Walter Rothholz
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Walter Rothholz (* 7 April 1943 in Asker, Norway) is a political scientist and former professor at the Institute for Political Science and Communication Studies at the University of Greifswald and at the Institute for Political Science and European Studies at the University of Szczecin.
Life and career
Walter Rothholz is a son of Walter Rothholz, a lawyer from Stettin who emigrated to Norway in 1939, and Else Marie Bølling (1915-1976), a Norwegian. His father was a Jew in concentration camp detention in Norway from October 1942 to May 1945 and, because he lived in a mixed marriage, was not deported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp. Rothholz studied political science, Islamic studies, Jewish studies and religious studies at the universities of München, Wien, Stockholm, Paris and Kairo. He is a student of Eric Voegelin. In 1980 he habilitated at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum with a thesis on the political culture of Norway.[1] He taught at several foreign universities, for example in Stanford/Cal. in 2004.
From 1992 to 2008 he was Professor of Political Science at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald There he helped to build up the Institute for Political Science after the fall of communism. On the side, he was a private lecturer at the FU Berlin. At the suggestion of the Department of Political Science (Otto Suhr Institute) there, he was awarded the academic title of "außerplanmäßiger Professor".[2] In 2008, he became an associate professor at the University of Szczecin,[3] where he taught until 2013, first at the Institute of Sociology, then at the Institute of Political and European Studies. This period saw the publication of the book "Politics and Religion. A brief introduction to the basic categories of their relationship" (Instytut Politologii i Europejstyki Uniwersytetu Szczecinskiego, 2013). Since 2014, Rothholz was a professor at the Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj in Transylvanian Cluj-Napoca for several years.[4]
Walter Rothholz was mainly concerned with Political Culture and the relationship between politics and religion, as well as with the theory of the Nordic welfare state and recent Norwegian social history. Relevant publications include "The Political Culture of the Baltic Sea Region and Eastern Europe" (edited with St. Berglund in 2008) and "The Role of Mimesis in Political Philosophy and Anthropology. Notes on René Girard" (edited 2008).[5] On the occasion of his 65th birthday, a Festschrift was dedicated to Rothholz by Petra Huse and Ingmar Dette under the title "Abenteuer des Geistes - Dimensionen des Politischen" (Baden-Baden 2008). Among Walter Rothholz's students is the social and cultural anthropologist Nils Seethaler.
References
- ↑ Walter Rothholz: Die politische Kultur Norwegens. On the development of a welfare state democracy. Nomos, Baden-Baden 1986, ISBN 3-7890-1247-5.
- ↑ userpage.fu-berlin.de
- ↑ whus.pl
- ↑ zewiubb.wordpress.com.
- ↑ shoeboxhouse-verlag.de
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