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Historian/Holocaust Survivor Georg G. Iggers to Speak on Forecasting History at University of Richmond

September 28, 2001

Historian, civil rights activist and Holocaust survivor Georg G. Iggers will speak at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 3 in the Jepson Alumni Center at the University of Richmond.

He will speak on "Expectations Fulfilled and Disappointed: A Member of the Class of '44 Reflects on the Years Since." The lecture is free and open to the public.

Just before the lecture, the university will award Iggers an honorary doctor of letters degree. His lecture is sponsored by the President's Office and the Office of International Education.

Iggers was a refugee from Hitler's Germany in the '30s when he came to Richmond. He was accepted to the university at 15 and went on to earn a Ph.D. degree from the University of Chicago. He taught at several black universities and participated in the civil rights movement.

For 32 years, he was on the faculty at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He was Distinguished Professor of European Intellectual History there when he took emeritus status in 1997.

Over the course of his more than 50-year career in history, he has won numerous fellowships including the Guggenheim, the Rockefeller, the Newberry Library and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He also was a Fulbright fellow and a Woodrow Wilson Center fellow. He is the author or editor of more than a dozen books and numerous scholarly articles.