- Historian who chronicled Germany's imperial past and took part in a "historians' battle" over whether the Nazis' crimes were unique.
- Descendant of a famous line of German historians. His father, Wilhelm Mommsen, was a historian who was barred from teaching after World War II because he allegedly had sympathized with Nazi ideology. One of his great-grandfathers was Theodor Mommsen, a historian who won the 1902 Nobel Prize for Literature.
- Taught at the University of Duesseldorf, led the German Historical Institute in London from 1977-1985 and chaired the German Association of Historians from 1988-1992. For the past year, he was a fellow at the University of Erfurt in Germany.
- Also spent much of his life researching the legacy of German sociologist and economic theorist Max Weber, the subject of his doctoral dissertation.
- Historian and author.
- Great-grandson of Theodor Mommsen, winner of the 1902 Nobel Prize in Literature.
- Death occurred while he was swimming in the Baltic Sea, near the island of Usedom.
- German historian well-known in the United States for his scholarship on the historian Max Weber and the origins of imperialism.
- Scion of a dynasty of German historians.
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