Günter Barthel

Günter Barthel (born March 17, 1941 in Erfurt ) is a German economist and orientalist .

Life

Günter Barthel studied industrial economics, economic history and oriental studies at the University of Leipzig for four years from 1959 . Immediately after graduation, he became a planned aspirant at the Department of Economics of the Oriental Institute at the university. He held this position until 1966 and was held this year with his dissertation to industrialization of Turkey, balance and perspective to the doctor of economics doctorate . 1966/1967 he participated in the in Kuwait held Conference on Industrial Development in the Arab countries participate. He then went to study in the United Arab Republic and Iraq . He has also been a corresponding member of the Société Egyptienne d'Economie Politique de Statistique et de Legislation since 1967 . Until 1969 he was a candidate for a habilitation and completed a postgraduate course at the Ain-Shams University in Cairo. In the following year he finally received his habilitation in Leipzig. His habilitation thesis was entitled The industrialization of selected Eastern Arabian countries in the process of the scientific-technical revolution, problems and tendencies .

Until 1971 Barthel was senior assistant for African and Near Eastern economics. Then he became a lecturer in this subject at the university. At the same time, he became deputy director of the African and Middle Eastern Studies Section for Education and Training. He held both offices until 1975. In that year he continued his education in Leningrad and was finally promoted to full professor and became chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board for Asian, African and Latin American Studies at the Ministry of Higher and Technical Education of the GDR. He held this office until 1981. From 1982 to 1986 he was deputy chairman, from 1987 to 1989 chairman of the Central Council for Asian, African and Latin American Studies at the Ministry of Higher and Technical Education in the GDR. From 1979 to 1990 he was also a member of the GDR National Committee for Asian, African and Latin American Studies.

In 1982 Barthel was visiting professor at Harvard University in Cambridge and at the University of Texas at Austin . In the following year he was awarded the GDR National Prize, Second Class for Science and Technology. In 1986 he researched and taught at the Institute for Oriental Studies at the University of Vienna and from then until 1988 he published the yearbook Asia Africa Latin America . Also in 1987 he began to publish the magazine asien afrika latein America , the studies on Asia, Africa and Latin America and the magazine asia africa lateinamerica, special issue . He edited these magazines until 1990. In addition, from 1993 to 1999 he was editor of the Leipzig Contributions to Orient Research .

In 1993 he changed his professorship within the university and from then on taught economics and society in the Modern Orient at the Faculty of Culture, Linguistics and Education. In the following year he switched to the Faculty of History, Art and Oriental Studies in this teaching position. In 1996 he left his academic career because his fixed-term employment contract ended that year. From then until 2004 he was managing director of a private school in Arnstadt and continues to publish orientalist works.

Selection of works

• Kemalism and modern Turkey (Berlin 1979)
• Iran. From Monarchy to Republic (Berlin 1983)
• The Arab countries (three editions, Gotha 1987)
• Alma Mater Lipsiensis rectores magnifici (Leipzig 1989)
• Lexicon of the Arab World (Darmstadt 1994)

swell

• Prof. Dr. oec. habil. Günter Barthel in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig
• Günter Barthel, professors at the University of Leipzig 1945–1993 , accessed on November 17, 2017