Charles W. Arnade

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Charles Wolfgang Arnade (born May 11, 1927 in Görlitz ; † September 7, 2008 in Leesburg, Virginia ) was an American historian and Hispanic of German origin.

Life

Born as Karl-Wolfgang Julius Kurt Arnade, he came to China at the age of 10 with his parents, who had fled the National Socialists, and witnessed the Nanking massacre there . He returned to Europe in 1938–39 and then emigrated to Bolivia . In 1946 he went to the United States, studied at the University of Texas and the University of Michigan and received his doctorate in 1955 from the University of Florida with the thesis The Emergence of the Republic of Bolivia (Gainesville 1957, Spanish: La dramática insurgencia de Bolivia , La Paz 1964, 1972, 1993, 1996, 2004).

From 1955 to 1958 he taught at the University of Tampa and Florida state University, then from 1960 to 2004 at the University of South Florida in Tampa , most recently as Distinguished Professor and Emeritus at the University of South Florida's International Studies for the College of Arts and Sciences ". Arnade promoted the study of both South American history and the Holocaust. In 1987 he received the "Teacher of the Year Award" from the University of South Florida, and in 2003 the "Lifetime Award" from the Florida Historical Society.

Works

  • (with Ralph Steele Boggs ) Florida on Trial 1593-1602 , Coral Gables 1959
  • (with Josef Kühnel) El problema del humanista Tadeo Haenke . Nuevas perspectivas en la investigación haenkeana , Sucre 1960
  • Bolivian History , La Paz 1984
  • Escenas y episodios de la historia. Estudios bolivianos 1953-1999 , La Paz 2004
  • Historiografía colonial y moderna de Bolivia , Cochabamba 2008

literature

  • Andreas W. Daum : Refugees from Nazi Germany as Historians. Origins and Migrations, Interests and Identities . In: Andreas W. Daum, Hartmut Lehmann, James J. Sheehan (Eds.): The Second Generation: Émigrés from Nazi Germany as Historians . Berghahn Books, New York 2016, ISBN 978-1-78238-985-9 , 1–52.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andreas W. Daum, Hartmut Lehmann, James J. Sheehan (eds.): The Second Generation. Émigrés from Nazi Germany as Historians . Berghahn Books, New York 2016, ISBN 978-1-78238-985-9 , pp. 342 f .
  2. ^ Andreas W. Daum: Refugees from Nazi Germany as Historians. Origins and Migrations, Interests and Identities . In: The Second Generation: Émigrés from Nazi Germany as Historians . Berghahn Books, New York 2016, pp. 15th f .
personal data
SURNAME Arnade, Charles W.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Arnade, Charles Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian and Hispanist of German origin
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Goerlitz
DATE OF DEATH September 7, 2008
Place of death Leesburg, Virginia