Marc David Baer

Marc David Baer is an historian and professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Life

Baer was born in Columbia, South Carolina. He celebrated his bar mitzvah in Germany. Baer received his Bachelor's of Arts from Northwestern University and his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.
He is a scholar of Middle Eastern and European History, who conducts research utilising English, French, German, Greek, Turkish including Ottoman Turkish, Hebrew, Persian and Arabic. He is the author of six books.
In addition, he has published works on Turks in Germany including “Mistaken for Jews: Turkish Ph.D. Students in Nazi Germany” and “Turk and Jew in Berlin: The First Turkish Migration to Berlin and the Shoah” as well as German-Jewish converts to Islam including “Protestant Islam in Weimar Germany: Hugo Marcus and ‘The Message of the Holy Prophet Muhammad to Europe.’” and “Muslim Encounters with Nazism and the Holocaust: The Ahmadi of Berlin and German-Jewish Convert to Islam Hugo Marcus".

Honored by the Glory of Islam: Conversion and Conquest in Ottoman Europe. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2008. • Winner, Albert Hourani Prize, Middle East Studies Association, Best Book in Middle East Studies,.
The Dönme: Jewish Converts, Muslim Revolutionaries, and Secular Turks. Stanford University Press, California, USA, 2010.
At Meydanı'nda Ölüm: 17. Yüzyıl İstanbul'unda Toplumsal Cinsiyet, Hoşgörü ve İhtida
Sultanic Saviors and Tolerant Turks: Writing Ottoman Jewish History, Denying the Armenian Genocide. Winner, 2021 Dr. Sona Aronian Book Prize for Excellence in Armenian Studies, National Association for Armenian Studies and Research
German, Jew, Muslim, Gay: The Life and Times of Hugo Marcus
The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars and Caliphs, short-listed for the Wolfson History Prize, 2022