Horst Pietschmann

Horst Pietschmann (born September 30, 1940 in Bremen ) is a German historian .

Horst Pietschmann passed his Abitur in 1960 at the New Language High School in Oberhausen and then studied history, Romance philology, philosophy and education at the University of Cologne . From 1964 to 1966 he was DAAD -Stipendiat in Mexico City and Seville. In 1969 he received his doctorate at the University of Cologne with a study initiated and supervised by Richard Konetzke on the introduction of the director's system in New Spain . From 1969 to 1979 he worked as a research assistant. In 1977 he completed his habilitation in Cologne . This was followed by substitute professorships in 1978 at Bielefeld University and 1979/1980 at Hamburg University . From 1982 to 1985 he taught as a professor for Iberian and Latin American history at the University of Cologne. In 1985, Pietschmann succeeded Inge Buisson as Professor of Latin American History at the Department of History at the University of Hamburg. From 1994 to 1996 he was the spokesman ( dean ) of the Department of History. From 2000 to 2005 he was head of the Latin America Center at the University of Hamburg. From 2000 to 2003 was a member of the Academic Senate of the University of Hamburg. In 2003/04 Pietschmann held the chair “Wilhelm and Alexander von Humboldt” at the Colegio de México and the UNAM . In 2005 he retired. Among his most important academic students were Peer Schmidt , Renate Pieper and Ulrich Mücke . His successor in Hamburg as Professor of Latin American History was Ulrich Mücke in 2007. Pietschmann is married and has one son. He lives with his main residence in Cologne. Eleven essays from 1972 to 1999 were published in 2000 for the 60th birthday of Jochen Meißner, Renate Pieper and Peer Schmidt.

Under Pietschmann, Hamburg became one of the most important places for historical Latin American research in Germany. Pietschmann submitted almost 300 publications. He mainly worked on two subject areas. In the first subject area he devoted himself to colonial history and investigated the structure of the Spanish colonial empire. Pietschmann emphasized the importance of the Spanish colonial administration both for the history of the early modern period and for the development of independence. In the second subject area, he expanded the presentation of Atlantic history to include the Latin American dimension. He understood the Atlantic as a larger system and advocated taking the Iberian colonies into account alongside the English and French. Pietschmann initiated and published the handbook on the history of Latin America (3 vols. Stuttgart 1992–1994). From 1987 to 1988 he taught as a visiting professor at the Université Bordeaux III . In the 1993 summer semester he was visiting professor at the Complutense University of Madrid . From 1964 he was editor of the yearbook for the history of Latin America for many years .

Pietschmann has received numerous scientific honors and memberships for his research. In 1987 he was awarded the Mexican Order of the Aztec Eagle . He was President of the Association of European Latin American Historians from 1993 to 1996 . From 1993 to 1996 and from 1998 to 2001 he was Vice President of the Instituto Internacional de Historia del Derecho Indiano . Pietschmann became a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts in 1990 . From 1996 to 2005 he was a member of the Joachim Jungius Society of Sciences and then a member of the Academy of Sciences in Hamburg . Pietschmann became a corresponding member of the Academia Nacional de la Historia in Argentina (1981), the Academia Chilena de la Historia in Chile 1990, the Academia Mexicana de la Historia in Mexico City (1997), the Academia de Geografía e Historia de Guatemala (2004 ), the Real Academia Hispano Americana de Ciencias, Artes y Letras in Cádiz in Spain (2010). In 2007 he was awarded the Association for Comparative Overseas History. Two years later he also became a member of the Academia Europaea in London.

Fonts

• The introduction of the intendant system in New Spain as part of the general administrative reform of the Spanish monarchy in the 18th century (= Latin American research. Vol. 5). Böhlau, Cologne 1972, ISBN 3-412-95172-2 (complete at the same time: Cologne, University, Dissertation, 1968–1969).
• State and state development at the beginning of the Spanish colonization of America (= Spanish research by the Görres Society. Series 2, Vol. 19). Aschendorff, Münster 1980, ISBN 3-402-05820-0 (also: Cologne, University, habilitation paper, 1977).
• The state organization of colonial Ibero America. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-12-911410-6 .
• Mexico between reform and revolution. From the Bourbon era to independence (= contributions to colonial and overseas history. Vol. 80). Steiner, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-515-07796-0 .

literature

• Pietschmann, Horst. In: Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar. Bio-bibliographical directory of contemporary German-speaking scientists. Volume 3: M - Sd. 27th edition. de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 2015, ISBN 978-3-11-033717-4 , pp. 2820f.
• Renate Pieper, Peer Schmidt (eds.): Latin America and the Atlantic World = El mundo atlántico y América Latina (1500-1850). Essays in honor of Horst Pietschmann (= Latin American research. Volume 33). Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2005, ISBN 3-412-26705-8 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Horst Pietschmann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Horst Pietschmann  in the German Digital Library
• Page from Horst Pietschmann at the University of Hamburg

Remarks

1. ^ The "Wilhelm and Alexander von Humboldt" chair
2. ↑ See the discussion by Hans Pohl in: Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte 89 (2002), pp. 200–201.
3. ↑ Barbara Vogel : History in Hamburg since 1970. In: Rainer Nicolaysen , Axel Schildt (Hrsg.): 100 years of history in Hamburg. Berlin et al. 2011, pp. 295–330, here: p. 315; Ulrich Mücke : Historical research on Latin America at the University of Hamburg. In: Yearbook of historical research in the Federal Republic of Germany. Reporting year 2009, 2010, pp. 15–22, here: p. 16.
4. ^ Ulrich Mücke: Historical research on Latin America at the University of Hamburg. In: Yearbook of historical research in the Federal Republic of Germany. Reporting year 2009, 2010, pp. 15–22, here: p. 16.