Lothar Gall

Lothar Gall (3 December 1936 – 20 June 2024) was a German historian known as "one of German liberalism's primary historians". He was a professor of history at Goethe University Frankfurt from 1975 until his retirement in 2005. His biography of Otto von Bismarck has been translated into English, French, Italian, and Japanese.

Life and career Gall was born in Lötzen on 3 December 1936. His father was Franz Gall, a Wehrmacht lieutenant general killed in Italy in December 1944. Gall studied history and Romance and German languages in Munich and Mainz. Gall argued that the revolution transformed liberalism from a constitutional movement committed to a classless society of burghers to an economically bourgeois ideology committed to free-market capitalism. His biography of Otto von Bismarck has been translated into English, French, Italian, and Japanese.

Gall died on 20 June 2024, at the age of 87.

Works Gall's works include: Benjamin Constant. Seine politische Ideenwelt und der deutsche Vormärz, 1963, ). Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1983, 1987, and 1998) Leibniz Prize of the DFG (1988) Herbert-Quandt-Medien-Preis (1990) Balzan Prize of history (1993) Hessian Order of Merit (2006)