Wolfgang J. Mommsen Prize and Prize of the German Historical Institute London
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Wolfgang J. Mommsen Prize
On 12 November 2010 the German Historical Institute London awarded the Wolfgang J. Mommsen Prize for the first time on the occasion of its Annual Lecture. The Wolfgang J. Mommsen Prize is named in memory of the former director of the German Historical Institute London who died in 2004. Wolfgang J. Mommsen would have celebrated his eightieth birthday this year. The prize will be awarded annually to the author of an outstanding piece of German research on British history and covers the cost of translating the work into English and publishing it in a new series initiated by the Institute, Monographs in British History: Publications of the German Historical Institute London. The aim of the series is to make German research on British history more accessible to a British readership. Both the prize and the series thus further the Institute’s mission of advancing British–German research in the field of history.
- Prof Andreas Gestrich and prize-winner Tobias Wolffhardt
The winner is Tobias Wolffhardt, who received the award for his Ph.D. thesis ‘Wissensproduktion als Staatsaufgabe. Colin Mackenzie (ca. 1753–1821) und das Projekt eines umfassenden Survey in Indien’ (Knowledge-production as a task of the state. Colin Mackenzie (c.1753–1821) and the project of surveying India), which was submitted to the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich and supervised by Professor Eckhart Hellmuth.