Christopher Clark

Quick Facts

Full Name	Christopher Clark
Occupation	Australian historian
Date Of Birth	Mar 14, 1960(1960-03-14)
Age	64
Birthplace	Sydney
Country	Australia
Birth City	New South Wales
Horoscope	Pisces

Christopher Clark Biography

Christopher Clark is one of the most popular and richest Australian historian who was born on March 14, 1960 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Clark’s study of the outbreak of the First World War, The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914, appeared in English in 2012; the German version (Die Schlafwandler: Wie Europa in den Ersten Weltkrieg zog) followed in 2013. The book challenges the imputation, hitherto widely accepted by mainstream scholars since 1919, of a peculiar “war guilt” attaching to the German Empire, instead mapping carefully the complex mechanism of events and misjudgements that led to war. There was, in 1914, nothing inevitable about it. Risks inherent in the strategies pursued by the various governments involved had been taken before without catastrophic consequences: this now enabled leaders to follow similar approaches while not adequately evaluating or recognising those risks. Among international experts many saw this presentation by Clark of his research and insights as groundbreaking.

Sir Christopher Munro Clark, FBA (born 14 March 1960) is an Australian historian working in England. He is the twenty-second Regius Professor of History at the University of Cambridge. In 2015 he was knighted for his services to Anglo-German relations.

Christopher Clark Net Worth

Christopher Clark is one of the richest Australian historian from Australia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Christopher Clark 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Professor Clark’s best-selling history of Prussia (Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600–1947; London: Penguin, 2006) won several prestigious prizes and its critical reception gave him a public profile that reached well beyond the academic world. The German language version of the book, entitled Preußen. Aufstieg und Niedergang 1600–1947, won for Clark the 2010 German Historians’ Prize [de] , an award normally given to historians nearing the ends of their careers. Clark remains (in 2014) the youngest ever recipient of this triennial prize, and the only one of the winners not to have approached his work as a mother-tongue German speaker. In 17 chapters covering 800 pages, Clark contends that Germany was “not the fulfillment of Prussia’s destiny but its downfall”. Although the nineteenth century Kulturkampf was characterised by a peculiar intensity and radicalism, Clark’s careful study of sources in several different European languages enabled him to spell out just how closely the Prussian experience of church-state rivalry resembled events elsewhere in Europe. In this way the book powerfully rebuts the traditional Sonderweg bandwagon, whereby throughout the twentieth century mainstream historians have placed great emphasis on the “differentness” of Germany’s historical path, before and during the nineteenth century. Clark downplays the perceived uniqueness of the much vaunted reform agenda pursued by Prussia between 1815 and 1848. He believes that the political and economic significance of the German customs union, established in 1834, came to be discovered and then overstated by historians only retrospectively, and in the light of much later political developments.

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With his critical biography of the last German Kaiser (Kaiser Wilhelm II; Harlow: Longman, 2000, series “Profiles in Power”), Clark aims to offer correctives to many of the traditional positions presented in J. C. G. Röhl’s three-volume biography of Wilhelm.

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Christopher Ranked on the list of most popular Australian historian. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Australia. Christopher Clark celebrates birthday on March 14 of every year.

Christopher Clark is also the co-editor with Wolfram Kaiser of a transnational study of secular-clerical conflict in nineteenth-century Europe (Culture Wars. Catholic-Secular Conflict in Nineteenth-Century Europe, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), and the author of numerous articles and essays. Professor Clark presented the BBC Four documentary programme “Frederick the Great and the Enigma of Prussia”.