Arno Peters

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Arno Peters' world map

Arno Peters (born May 22, 1916 in Charlottenburg ; † December 2, 2002 in Bremen ) was a German historian and cartographer .

Life

Arno Peters is the son of Bruno and Lucie Peters , who were among the earliest members of the Spartakusbund . After graduating from high school, he studied history, cultural history and newspaper studies in Berlin .

He created the synchronous optical world history , which puts European history on an equal footing with the history of the great Asian and African cultures as well as pre-Columbian America.

In the formation of the center Sprockhövel the IG metal a building should be incorporated, should be presented in the Synchronous Optical Peters world history. The publication of an atlas by Arno Peters was also planned in the GDR . Both projects have not been implemented for different reasons.

Likewise, Peters sought in his geographical work to overcome what he believed to be a Europe-centric worldview. In 1973 he presented a map projection of the earth ( Peters projection ), which was the basis of the Peters Atlas published in 1989 . The maps contained therein represent all countries and regions of the world approximately true to area.

Furthermore, Peters dealt with the concept of the equivalence economy as an economic system, which he saw as an alternative to the capitalist mode of production . The trade via free price formation by means of the market mechanism should give way to the equivalence principle according to an exchange of equivalent values. The basis of these values ​​is the working time materialized in the products (see also relative wages ). In order for this mode of production to function in accordance with human needs, global planning of the economy is still necessary, which can now be realistically implemented using the most modern data processing technology. In this context he created the model of the Peters Rose .

Politically, Peters confessed to the left and he was therefore repeatedly attacked. He had been a member of the PEN Club since 1965 .

Peters was in his third marriage to Majenna, geb. Ruminski, married. They both had two children. His second marriage had a daughter and his first marriage had four children.

Honors

Publications

  • Peters World Atlas . Academic Publishing House 1990. Completely. revised, updated New edition. Ullmann, Potsdam 2010. ISBN 978-3-8331-5559-8
  • Peters synchronous optical world history , time atlas with index tape. 1970, first published in 1952, many other editions up to 2000. ISBN 3-86150-370-0 .
    • Digital edition as: "Der Digitale Peters". Updated by Andreas Kaiser. In an electronic edition by Thomas Burch, Hans Rudolf Behrendt and Martin Weinmann. Office W. GmbH. Zweiausendeins, Frankfurt 2000. Edition 2012 for PC: XP, Vista, Win 7. Mac: Intel processor, from OS 10.5. Minimum screen resolution: 1280 × 1024. 1 DVD-ROM. ISBN 978-3-86150-833-5
  • Arno Peters, Konrad Zuse: What is and how is computer socialism realized: Conversations with Konrad Zuse . Verlag Neues Leben 2000. ISBN 3-35501-510-5

literature

  • Fritz Fischer: The Last Polyhistor . Academic Publishing House , Vaduz 1996, ISBN 3-905019-07-8 .
  • David cake book: Arno Peters, the Peterskarte and the synchronous optical world history. Media representations of the “One World” . In: Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft 59 (2011) no.10 . S. 824-846 .
  • Stefan Müller: Equal Representation of Time and Space: Arno Peters' Universal History . In: History Compass, vol. 8 (2010) no.7 . S. 718-229 , doi : 10.1111 / j.1478-0542.2010.00693.x .
  • Stefan Müller: Fair world map. The controversy about the Peters projection from a historiographical perspective, in: Kurt Brunner, Thomas Horst (Hrsg.): 15. Kartographiehistorisches Colloquium. Munich, 2-4. September 2010. Lectures, reports, posters, Bonn: Kirschbaum 2012 . S. 189-208 .
  • Stefan Müller: Global history of a Mercator criticism: Arno Peters and the idea of ​​a “just” world map . In: Ute Schneider / Stefan Brakensiek (eds.): Gerhard Mercator: Science and knowledge transfer . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2015, pp. 246–264.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.archivportal-d.de/item/33MSY2EU5KNDKKTM2GQHZMUJ2YXFQX3H
  2. ^ Stefan Müller: Trade unionist, socialist and educational worker - Heinz Dürrbeck 1912-2001 . Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8375-0201-5 , p. 345.
  3. ^ Stefan Müller: Trade unionist, socialist and educational worker - Heinz Dürrbeck 1912-2001 . Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8375-0201-5 , pp. 343-345.
personal data
SURNAME Peters, Arno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian cartographer
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Charlottenburg
DATE OF DEATH December 2, 2002
Place of death Bremen