George Lachmann Mosse was born on September 20, 1918, in Berlin, Germany, the son of Hans Lachmann-Mosse and Felicia Mosse, whose family business, Rudolf Mosse Verlag, was one of the major publishing and advertising enterprises in Europe. Professor Mosse was educated first in German private schools, then, following the expropriation of his parents' property and the family's escape from Germany, in English boarding schools and at Cambridge University. Professor Mosse arrived in the United States in 1939 and attended Haverford College, where he received his B.A. in 1941. After receiving a Ph.D. in History from Harvard University in 1946, he embarked upon a career in university teaching and scholarship. Dr. Mosse taught at the University of Michigan and the State University of Iowa and joined the Department of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1955, where at this writing he is John Bascom Professor of History. Dr. Mosse has authored and edited a large number of scholarly works, both in the area of the history of the Reformation and in the area of mass politics and national socialism. Some of his notable works are The Struggle for Sovereignty in England (1950), The Reformation (1953), The Holy Pretence (1957), The Crisis of German Ideology: Intellectual Origins of the Third Reich, presently considered the definitive work on the topic (1964), Nazi Culture (1966), and Germans and Jews (1970). Dr. Mosse is co-editor of the Journal of Contemporary History, a member of the American Society for Church History, and the past president of the American Society for Reformation Research. He also is Professor of History at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
