Baumgart, Winfried

Winfried Baumgart is Prof. emer. at Mainz University, Germany. He lectured at the universities of Bonn, Mainz, Washington D.C., Paris IV and Riga. He specialises in the history of international relations of the 19th and 20th centuries. His major works are on the peace of Brest-Litovsk in 1918, the peace of Paris in 1856, a handbook on international relations between 1830 and 1878, a bibliography of German history (18 editions) and a dictionary of historical and political terms of the 19th and 20th centuries (in 3 languages). He is also editor of the papers of various prominent figures of German 19th and 20th century history. In 2007 he also published vol. 7 of the »Auswärtige Politik Preußens, April to August 1866«.