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Peter Bergmann

Office: 215 Keene-Flint Hall
Phone: (352) 273-3378
Fax: (352) 392-6927
Email: bergmann@history.ufl.edu
Website: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/bergmann/

Mailing address:
Department of History
University of Florida
P.O. Box 117320
Gainesville, FL 32611-7320


Associate Professor Peter Bergmann received his Ph.D. (1983), M.A. and B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley. Before coming to the University of Florida, he was a member of the history department at the University of Connecticut. Peter Bergmann is the author of Nietzsche, ’the Last Antipolitical German’, Indiana University Press, 1987. He co-edited East Europe Reads Nietzsche with Alice Freifeld and Bernice Rosenthal (1998), and The Antecedents of Nazism: Weimar. The Political Papers of Walter Landauer, with Hugh Clark and Julius Elias (2000). Among his recent articles is ‘American Exceptionalism and the German Sonderweg in Tandem,’ International History Review 23:3 (September 2001), 505-534. He is working on a manuscript entitled The Americanization of German Defeat, 1620-1989.

Peter Bergmann is a member of the Center for European Studies faculty and is an affiliate member of the Jewish Studies Center. His most recent courses include nineteenth and twentieth century Intellectual and Cultural History, Modernism, Nationalism and the Idea of Europe, and War and Society.