In Memorium John R. Lampe

Professor Emeritus John Lampe (1935-2024)

The Department of History has received sad news about the death of John Robert Lampe on September 6, 2024. He passed away after a brief illness. at age 88 after a brief illness 

John Lampe was born December 7, 1935 in Duluth, MN and graduated from Harvard University in 1957. He also studied at the London School of Economics in the UK. He served in the US Army and then was a US Foreign Service Officer with the Department of State. He completed his PhD at the University of Wisconsin. He taught at the University of Maryland, where he served as Chairman of the Department of History. He was also Secretary of the East European Program and a Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC. His publications include *with M. R. Jackson,  Balkan Economic History: from imperial borderlands to developing nations I(Indiana University Press, 1982); Yugoslavia as History: Twice there was a Country (Cambridge University Press, 2000); The Bulgarian Economy: In the Twentieth Century (Routledge, 1986); (with Russell O. Prickett, and Ljubiša S. Adamović) Yugoslav-American Economic Relations Since World War II (Duke University Press, 1990) as well as numerous articles and chapters in books. In retirement, he continued to edit and review publications.

Burial will be in Minnesota.

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