Friedrich Katz

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Friedrich Katz (born June 13, 1927 in Vienna ; died October 16, 2010 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , USA ) was an Austrian ethnologist and historian .

Life

Friedrich Katz was born as the son of Bronislawa Rein and Leo Katz , came with his parents via Berlin , Paris and New York City in 1940 to Mexico City , where he graduated from French school in 1945.

Katz studied in New York City, Mexico City, at the University of Vienna , where he received his doctorate in 1954, completed his habilitation in 1962 at the Humboldt University in Berlin ( GDR ), where he also taught until 1970.

Friedrich Katz's work at the University of Chicago

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Above all, the importance of Mexico research at the University of Chicago, the special merits of Katz and the supposedly special reputation of his students would have to be proven or deleted. - Dietrich ( discussion ) 23:53, Aug. 9, 2014 (CEST)

Research on Mexican history has been of great importance to the University of Chicago for more than 80 years , and for the past 30 years it has been shaped by the research and suggestions of Katz as one of the most outstanding historians of modern Mexican history.

Friedrich Katz had been a professor in Chicago since 1971 and held the chair for Mexican history from 1992 to 2002. He was respected for his contribution to the study of the history of Mexico and the special relationship between Mexico and the United States. Katz's specialty was originally the history of Mexico in the 19th and 20th centuries, as well as Mexico's diplomatic relations within Latin America as well as with Europe and the USA.

He also promoted bilateral relations between academics and politicians in both countries. He has organized more than two dozen international conferences on topics such as “Consolidating Democracy”, “The Financial System and Capital Flight”, agricultural issues, the Mexican Revolution , Mexico-US migration, corruption, culture and development, and the free press.

In recognition of Katz's work, the University of Chicago renamed its Study Center of Mexican History the Katz Center for Mexican Studies in 2014 .

Katz is the author of several classics such as the biography of Pancho Villa, The Life and Times of Pancho Villa . For this book he received the Albert J. Beveridge Award of the American Historical Association in 1999 and the Bolton Prize of the Conference on Latin American History, and in 2000 the Bryce Wood Book Award of the Latin American Studies Association. Since 2014, the AHA has been awarding the “Friedrich Katz Prize in Latin American and Caribbean History” for the best book on Latin American history published in English.

Publications

  • Germany, Díaz and the Mexican Revolution. German Politics in Mexico, 1870-1920 (1964)
  • The difficult path of the "Estados Unidos Mexicanos" and the anti-fascist exile (1998)
  • The Life and Time of Pancho Villa (1998)
  • Pre-Columbian cultures. The Great Empires of Old America (1969)
  • The Secret War in Mexico. Europe, the United States, and the Mexican Revolution (1981)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.iscanmyfood.com/hd/index.php?t=Friedrich+Katz  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.iscanmyfood.com  
  2. ↑ http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/716738.html
  3. ↑ Friedrich Katz . In: Andreas W. Daum, Hartmut Lehmann, James J. Sheehan (eds.): The Second Generation. Émigrés from Nazi Germany as Historians . Berghahn, New York 2016, ISBN 978-1-78238-985-9 , pp. 399 .
  4. ↑ Andreas W. Daum, Hartmut Lehmann, James J. Sheehan (eds.): The Second Generation. Émigrés from Nazi Germany as Historians . Berghahn, New York 2016, ISBN 978-1-78238-985-9 , pp. 24, 399-401 .
  5. ^ Katz Center for Mexican Studies: About Us. In: The University of Chicago. Accessed April 30, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Friedrich Katz . In: Andreas W. Daum, Hartmut Lehmann, James J. Sheehan (eds.): The Second Generation. Émigrés from Nazi Germany as Historians . Berghahn, New York 2016, p. 400 .
  7. ^ Friedrich Katz Prize Recipients. In: American Historical Association. Accessed April 30, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Katz, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Katz, C. Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian ethnologist, professor of Latin American history in Berlin and later in Chicago
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria
DATE OF DEATH October 16, 2010
Place of death Philadelphia , USA