Aram Mattioli

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Aram Mattioli (born January 21, 1961 in Zurich ) is a Swiss historian .

Career

Aram Mattioli studied history and philosophy at the University of Basel . From 1989 to 1997 he was a research assistant at the Faculty of Humanities in Lucerne . He received his doctorate from the University of Basel in 1993 and his habilitation in Lucerne in 1997.

Since 1999 he has been a full professor of general and recent Swiss history at the University of Lucerne . From 2001 to 2004, from 2006 to 2008, from 2010 to 2012 and from 2014 to 2016 he was also head of the history seminar. In 2001/2002 he was dean of the humanities faculty at the University of Lucerne.

research

At the beginning of his research, Mattioli mainly dealt with Swiss legal intellectuals in the early 20th century. He wrote his dissertation on the Freiburg patrician and right-wing conservative intellectual Gonzague de Reynold , who admired the dictatorships of the interwar period out of deep dislike for Marxism / Bolshevism and liberalism and who pleaded for the transformation of Switzerland into an authoritarian republic during the Second World War . After the subsequent preoccupation with Catholic anti-Semitism, Mattioli concentrated more and more on researching Italian fascism . In 2005, he presented a highly acclaimed study of the fascist campaign against the Abyssinian Empire (now Ethiopia ), in which Italian troops repeatedly used poison gas against the civilian population and committed other massive war crimes .

In October 2008 Mattioli organized a conference in Lucerne on the history of architecture and urban development in fascist Italy. Here, as different aspects were discussed such as the radical transformation of the metropolis of Rome in the twenties, newly created cities on the reclaimed Pontine Marshes (about Littoria or Sabaudia ), the Italian new city of Bolzano , fascist dead castles and ossuaries in South Tyrol , the construction of highways as well as the sometimes overwhelming architecture and urban development projects in the colonies of Dodecanese , Libya , Eritrea and Ethiopia ( see also: Italian East Africa ). An anthology with these contributions was published in 2009.

In his essay Jacob Burckhardt and the Limits of Humanity , Mattioli deals with the anti-Semitism of the great Basel scholar of the 19th century. Mattioli, however, sees himself “in front of a wall of omissions and ingrained legends”, ascertains “existing research deficits” and realizes that in the case of Burckhardt, too, “the cult of genius leads to defused readings, narrowed eyes and strange ahistorical perspectives”. "This essay argues that Burckhardt's anti-Semitic tirades were not casual expressions and should be taken scientifically far more seriously than research has previously assumed."

Awards

His synthesis of Lost Worlds. A History of the Indians of North America 1700–1910 was shortlisted for the Science Book of 2018 , along with four other works .

Works (selection)

  • Between democracy and totalitarian dictatorship. Gonzague de Reynold and the tradition of the authoritarian right in Switzerland . Orell Füssli, Zurich 1994, ISBN 3-280-02193-6 .
  • Intellectuals from the right. Ideology and Politics in Switzerland 1918–1939 (as editor). Orell Füssli, Zurich 1995, ISBN 3-280-02324-6 .
  • Anti-Semitism in Switzerland 1848–1960 . Orell Füssli, Zurich 1998, ISBN 3-280-02329-7 .
  • Catholic anti-Semitism in the 19th century. Causes and traditions in international comparison (ed. With Olaf Blaschke ). Orell Füssli, Zurich 2000, ISBN 3-280-02806-X .
  • "A higher education is needed in our fatherland." Stony paths from the Jesuit college to the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences (with Markus Ries). Chronos, Zurich 2000, ISBN 3-905313-48-0 .
  • Jacob Burckhardt and the limits of humanity . Provincial Library, Weitra 2001, ISBN 3-901862-11-0 .
  • Unlimited war violence. The Italian use of poison gas in Abyssinia 1935–1936. In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte . Vol. 51, Issue 3, 2003, pp. 311–337, online (PDF; 7 MB) .
  • Intolerance in the Age of Revolutions. Europe 1770–1848 (ed. With Markus Ries & Enno Rudolph). Orell Füssli, Zurich 2004, ISBN 3-280-06012-5 .
  • Field of experimentation for violence. The Abyssinian War and its international significance 1935–1941; with a foreword by Angelo Del Boca . Orell Füssli, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-280-06062-1 .
  • The first fascist war of extermination. The Italian aggression against Ethiopia 1935–1941 (ed. With Asfa-Wossen Asserate ; contributions to a conference at the University of Lucerne on October 3, 2005). SH-Verlag, Cologne 2006, ISBN 978-3-89498-162-4 .
  • Build for fascism. Architecture and urban development in Mussolini's Italy (ed. With Gerald Steinacher ). Orell Füssli, Zurich 2009. ISBN 978-3-280-06115-2 .
  • "Viva Mussolini". The appreciation of fascism in Berlusconi's Italy . Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2010, ISBN 978-3-506-76912-1 .
  • Lost worlds. A History of the Indians of North America 1700–1910. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2017, ISBN 978-3-608-94914-8 .
    • Translation into Italian: Mondi perduti. Una storia dei nativi nordamericani 1700–1910. Einaudi, Torino 2019, ISBN 978-880623975-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Aram Mattioli: Jakob Burckhardt and the limits of humanity. Provincial Library, Weitra 2001, p. 9.
  2. ↑ Aram Mattioli: Jakob Burckhardt and the limits of humanity. Provincial Library, Weitra 2001, p. 9.
  3. ↑ Aram Mattioli: Jakob Burckhardt and the limits of humanity. Provincial Library, Weitra 2001, p. 10.
  4. ↑ Aram Mattioli: Jakob Burckhardt and the limits of humanity. Provincial Library, Weitra 2001, p. 14.
personal data
SURNAME Mattioli, Aram
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich