Hermann Beck

Hermann Beck is Professor of History at the University of Miami, where he teaches German and Modern European History. He has been a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton and a Fellow at the Berliner Historische Kommission. The author of "The Origins of the Authoritarian Welfare State in Prussia: Conservatives, Bureaucracy, and the Social Question, 1815-1870," he has also contributed articles to American and European journals, including among others, "The Journal of Modern History," "The Journal of Contemporary History," "Central European History," and "German History."