Karl Schweizer

Karl Wolfgang Schweizer FRHistS FRSA is a historian specialising in eighteenth century European history.

Education and academic career[]

Schweizer was born in Germany and was educated at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, where he graduated with a BA in 1969, and in 1970 he earned his MA at the University of Waterloo. In 1976, he was awarded a PhD from the University of Cambridge,^[1] where he studied with Herbert Butterfield.^[2] His doctoral dissertation was titled "Frederick the Great, William Pitt and Lord Bute: The Origin, Development and Dissolution of the Anglo-Prussian Alliance, 1756–63".^[3]

In 1988, Schweizer was appointed chairman of the Humanities Department at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), a post he held until 1993 and again during 2001–2003.^[1] Since 2000, he has been professor of history at the NJIT/Rutgers Federated History Department.^[1] In 1994, he was appointed a member of the Graduate School, Rutgers University.^[2]

Jeremy Black has said that among those interested in eighteenth century European international relations, Schweizer "has a deservedly high reputation for a number of judicious and important articles".^[3] In 2020, Schweizer was awarded the 2020 CSLA Lifetime Achievement Award from the College of Science and Liberal Arts, New Jersey Institute of Technology.^[1] He is a Fellow of Royal Historical Society, the Royal Society of Arts and the New York Academy of Sciences.^[2] He has also been awarded the Congressional Order of Merit, USA and has held fellowships/visiting appointments at Princeton,Cambridge,Yale Universities and the London School of Economics.Moreover,Dr.Schweizer is a Life Fellow of the International Biographical Association(Cambridge,UK)

Works[]

Books[]

• The Devonshire Diary: William Cavendish Fourth Duke of Devonshire, Memoranda on State of Affairs 1759-1762, edited with Peter Douglas Brown (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979).
• Lord Bute: Essays in Re-Interpretation, editor (Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1988).
• England, Prussia, and the Seven Years' War (New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 1989).
• Cobbett in his Times, with John W. Osborne (Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1990).
• Frederick the Great, William Pitt, and Lord Bute, The Anglo-Prussian Alliance, 1756-1763 (New York: Garland Publishing, 1991).
• William Pitt, Earl of Chatham 1708-1778. A Bibliography (Wesport: Greenwood Press, 1993).
• Statesmen, Diplomats and the Press: Essays on 18th Century Britain (New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 2003).
• Herbert Butterfield: Essays on the History of Science (New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 2005).
• Parliament and the Press 1688-1936, editor (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006).
• The International Thought of Herbert Butterfield, edited with Paul Sharp (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).
• The Seven Years War: A Transatlantic History, with M. Schumann (London: Routledge, 2008).
  • Oligarchy ,Dissent and the Culture of Print in 18th.Century Britain(Edwin Mellen Press,Lampeter,Wales,)2015 ,
• Francois de Callieres,Diplomat and Man of Letters(Lampeter,Wales,)1995
• Seeds Of Evil(Author House,2001)
• The Art of Diplomacy(Leicester University Press,1983)
• Essays in Honour of Ragnhild Hatton(edited With Jeremy Black)Humanities Press,International,1985.
• War,Politics and Diplomacy(Oxford,2003)
• In Defence of Australia"s Constitutional Monarchy(edited with Introduction),Lampeter,Wales,2003.

Articles[]

• 'Lord Bute, Newcastle, Prussia, and the Hague Overtures: A Re-Examination', Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies, Vol. 9, No. 1 (Spring, 1977), pp. 72–97.
• 'William Pitt, Lord Bute, and the Peace Negotiations with France, May–September 1761', Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies, Vol. 13, No. 3 (Autumn, 1981), pp. 262–275.
• (with Carol S. Leonard), 'Britain, Prussia, Russia and the Galitzin Letter: A Reassessment', The Historical Journal, Vol. 26, No. 3 (Sep., 1983), pp. 531–556.
• 'Edward Weston (1703–70): The Papers of an Eighteenth-Century Under-Secretary in the Lewis Walpole Library', The Yale University Library Gazette, Vol. 71, No. 1/2 (October 1996), pp. 43–48.
• 'Jacobite Material among the Scottish Loudoun Papers', Huntington Library Quarterly, Vol. 61, No. 1 (1998), pp. 101–105.

As well as over 250 articles/reviews inscholarly journals and reference works

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