Der Conrad-Bericht (1897) wird hier zum ersten Mal auf Deutsch und Englisch veröffentlicht und von Fachwissenschaftlern analysiert.

Charles E. McClelland (b. Texas 1940) is emeritus professor of history at the University of New Mexico (UNM). He studied at Princeton, Munich and Yale (PhD '67) and taught at Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania before coming to UNM in 1974. He was Director of the European Studies Program at UNM for many years and served as president of the UNM and New Mexico AAUP. He retired (early) in 1997 to work as an Alexander-von-Humboldt Fellow and Fulbright Fellow in Germany, designing and writing part of a multivolume bicentennial history of the University of Berlin. He has also been a Fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study and the Zentrum für Inderdisziplinäre Forschung in Germany. He is the author of six major monographs, contributing editor of three further books as well as author of two dozen schol¬arly articles about modern Central European social, intellectual and university history as well as of the modern learned professions.