Theodore S. Hamerow

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Theodore Stephen Hamerow (August 24, 1920 – February 16, 2013) was an American historian who specialized in modern German history. Born in Warsaw to Jewish parents, he and his family moved to the United States in 1930, after passing through France. He earned a bachelor’s degree from the City College of New York in 1942. During World War II he served in the U.S. Army in Europe as an infantryman and as a military police translator. After the war, he earned a master’s degree from Columbia University in 1947 and completed his PhD at Yale University in 1951 under Hajo Holborn, writing about the German Revolution of 1848-49. He was a professor of German history at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign from 1952 to 1958, and then spent the rest of his career at the University of Wisconsin–Madison until 1991. He died in Madison, Wisconsin, in 2013.