Joachim Remak

Joachim Remak (1920 Berlin – Santa Barbara, Cal., 2001) was an American historian of Modern Europe, especially of Germany and World War I.

[3] He taught at Stanford as an Instructor for three years and then took up a tenure-track position in the History Department at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon, in 1958.

A popular classroom lecturer as well as a prolific scholar, Joe Remak was promoted to Full Professor and served as Department Chair at the University of California, Santa Barbara, from 1977 to 1984.

His published his next book, The Gentle Critic: Theodor Fontane and German Politics, 1848–1898 (Syracuse University Press), in 1964.

His article “The Healthy Invalid: How Doomed the Habsburg Empire?” which appeared in The Journal of Modern History 41 (1969): 127-143 won the American Historical Association's Higby Prize.