尼科劳斯·瓦赫斯曼

尼科劳斯·丹尼尔·瓦赫斯曼（Nikolaus Daniel Wachsmann，1971年—）是一位研究欧洲现代史的教授，他也是伦敦大学伯贝克学院的历史、古典与考古系教授。

生平

瓦赫斯曼生于慕尼黑。他在英国的伦敦政治经济学院取得了理学学士学位（BSc），在剑桥大学取得了哲学硕士学位（MPhil），在伦敦大学伯贝克学院取得了哲学博士学位。

1998年，瓦赫斯曼成为剑桥大学唐宁学院研究员。他后来曾在谢菲尔德大学担任讲师。2005年，他进入伦敦大学伯贝克学院的历史、古典与考古系。2016年，他获得马克·林顿历史奖。

Nikolaus Daniel Wachsmann (born 1971) is a professor of modern European history in the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology at Birkbeck College, University of London.

Academic career

Wachsmann was born in Munich. He graduated from the London School of Economics with a Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree, from the University of Cambridge with a taught Master of Philosophy (MPhil) degree, and from the University of London with a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree. His doctoral thesis, which he completed in 2001, was titled "Reform and Repression: Prisons and Penal Policy in Germany, 1918–1939".

In October 1998, Wachsmann began his academic career as a research fellow at Downing College, Cambridge. He was then a lecturer at the University of Sheffield. In 2005, he joined the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology of Birkbeck, University of London.

He is the author of the 2004 book, Hitler's Prisons: Legal Terror in Nazi Germany and the 2015 book KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps.

He is currently writing a new history of Auschwitz.

Personal life

Wachsmann resides in Liverpool.

Awards and honours

2004 Royal Historical Society Gladstone History Book Prize, winner for Hitler's Prisons: Legal Terror in Nazi Germany

2016 Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize, winner for KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps

2016 Mark Lynton History Prize, winner for KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps

2016 Wolfson History Prize, winner for KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps

Selected publications

KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps (New York, London, 2015)

Die Linke im Visier. Zur Errichtung der Konzentrationslager 1933 (Göttingen, 2014), co-edited with Professor Sybille Steinbacher

The Nazi Concentration Camps, 1933–1939: A Documentary History (Lincoln, 2012), co-edited with Dr. Christian Goeschel

Concentration Camps in Nazi Germany: The New Histories (London, 2010), co-edited with Professor Jane Caplan

"Before the Holocaust: New Approaches to the Nazi Concentration Camps, 1933–1939", special issue of Journal of Contemporary History 45 (2010), Nr. 3, co-edited with Dr. Christian Goeschel

Hitler's Prisons: Legal Terror in Nazi Germany (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004).