ONNovember 26, 2017, Georg Iggers passed away in a retirement home on the outskirts of Buffalo, where he had taught for four decades at the State University of New York (SUNY). After starting his scholarly career with a book on French social philosophy in the early nineteenth century, Iggers turned his attention to the transformation of historical thinking in Germany since the Enlightenment, exploring the development of history as a discipline. Over the years, he distinguished himself as one of the world’s leading historians of historiography. He retained his focus on the writing of history in the German-language realm, but moved increasingly toward an analysis of historiography in comparative and global perspectives.1 Iggers belonged to the generation of Jewish refugees from Central Europe who had fled the Nazi dictatorship at a young age, received their academic training in the English-speaking world, and then gone on to become historians. This remarkable cohort included Peter Gay, Raul Hilberg, Gerda Lerner, Michael A. Meyer, George L. Mosse, and Gerhard Weinberg, among others.2 As was the case for other members of this generation of young émigrés from Nazi Germany and Austria who became scholars in America, Iggers blended personal experiences of discrimination and displacement into his scholarly work. These experiences alerted him to forms of illiberalism in the contemporary world and fueled his commitment to a social activism that embraced civil rights and racial equality. Iggers cherished the heritage of the transatlantic Enlightenment and the values of civil society, and he respected the fact that these have distinctive meanings in different societies. Throughout his life, he remained a nonconformist who always questioned not only prevailing views but also, and especially, what he perceived to be authoritarian tendencies. Iggers accepted that this stance turned him into a migrant of sorts between cultural and political spheres that others viewed as

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格奥尔格·伊格斯（1926–2017）

2017年11月26日，乔治·伊格斯（Georg Iggers）在布法罗市郊的一家养老院过世，他在纽约州立大学（SUNY）任教了40年。在19世纪初期，伊格斯从一本关于法国社会哲学的书开始他的学术生涯后，便将注意力转向启蒙运动以来德国历史思想的转变，探索历史作为一门学科的发展。多年来，他以世界史学领域的领先历史学家之一而著称。他一直专注于德语领域的历史写作，但越来越倾向于从比较和全球的角度来分析史学。1伊格斯人属于中欧的犹太难民，他们逃离了纳粹独裁统治。年轻的时候，在英语世界中接受了学术训练，然后成为历史学家。这个杰出的队列成员包括彼得·盖伊，劳尔·希尔伯格，格达·勒纳，迈克尔·迈耶，乔治·莫斯和格哈德·温伯格，等等。2纳粹德国和奥地利的这一代年轻移民的其他成员也是如此。成为美国学者后，伊格斯将个人的歧视和流离失所经历融入了他的学术作品中。这些经历使他警觉到当代世界上的各种形式的自由主义，并促使他致力于包括公民权利和种族平等在内的社会行动主义。依格斯（Iggers）珍惜跨大西洋启蒙运动的传承和公民社会的价值观，他尊重这些事实在不同社会中具有独特的意义。在他的一生中，他仍然是一个不守规矩的人，不仅总是质疑主流观点，而且尤其是他认为自己是专制主义倾向的人。伊格斯（Iggers）接受了这一立场，将他变成了文化和政治领域之间的某种移民，其他人将其视为