Thomas Nipperdey

Thomas Nipperdey (1927–1992) was a German historian and professor of modern history at the University of Munich. He was a Fellow of St Antony’s College, Oxford, and a member on several occasions of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and Stanford. Nipperdey was also a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He received the Historian’s Prize of the City of Münster in 1984 and was awarded the Historical College Prize posthumously in 1992.