Michael Riekenberg

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Michael Riekenberg (born November 30, 1953 in Hanover ) is a historian of the history of Latin America. He published works on the culture of remembrance and the history of violence in Latin America.

Life

Riekenberg received his doctorate in 1984 from the University of Hanover , in 1994 he completed his habilitation at the Catholic University of Eichstätt with a thesis on the history of culture in the La Plata region in the 19th century. Since 1995 he has been Professor of Comparative History and Ibero-American History at the University of Leipzig . He lived in Guatemala for several years , where he a. a. did research in the General Archives (Archiv General de Centro América). He temporarily represented the professorship for modern and contemporary history at the Catholic University of Eichstätt . He was also a visiting professor at the Universidad de Buenos Aires and the Universidad Católica in Santiago de Chile and gave numerous lectures at universities in Latin America.

Riekenberg's book State- remote violence. A History of Latin America (1500-1930) was honored by the “International Humanities” jury in April 2015 and was also published in Spanish and English. It is considered a standard work on the past and present of violence in Latin America. In the book Violence. An Ontology (2019), Riekenberg elaborates a general theory of violence based on the consideration of Amazonian cultures.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • Violence. One ontology. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt / New York, 2019
  • Shared orders. A History of the State in Latin America, Campus Verlag, Frankfurt / New York, 2017.
  • Non-state violence. A History of Latin America (1500 - 1930), Campus Verlag, Frankfurt / New York, 2014.
  • Caudillism. A short treatise based on the La Plata room, Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2010.
  • A Brief History of Argentina, CH Beck Verlag, Munich, 2009.
  • Segments of violence. On an excerpt from the violence in Latin America, Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig, 2003.
  • Ethnic wars in Latin America in the 19th century, Verlag Hans-Dieter Heinz, Stuttgart, 1997.
  • Nation building. Social change and historical awareness on the Río de la Plata (1810 - 1916), Vervuert Verlag, Frankfurt, 1995.
  • On the change of rule and mentality in Guatemala. A contribution to the social history of Latin America, Böhlau Verlag, Vienna / Cologne, 1990.

Editorships

  • On the sociology of violence by Georges Bataille, Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig, 2012.
  • Mithg. From Columbus to Castro. Essays on the history of Latin America ( Hans-Joachim König ), Verlag Hans-Dieter Heinz, Stuttgart, 2006.
  • History and politics lessons up-to-date? Questions and remarks from the perspective of regional sciences, Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig, 2005.
  • Mithg. Kultur-Diskurs: Continuity and change in the discussion about identities in Latin America in the 19th and 20th centuries: 24 articles dedicated to Hans-Joachim König , Verlag Hans-Dieter Heinz, Stuttgart, 2001.
  • Politics and history in Argentina and Guatemala (19th / 20th centuries), Moritz Diesterweg Verlag, Frankfurt, 1994.
  • Latin America: History lessons, history textbooks, historical awareness, Moritz Diesterweg Verlag, Frankfurt, 1990.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Vita. Retrieved April 3, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Michael Riekeberg - University of Leipzig. Retrieved April 7, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Award: State-remote violence. Retrieved April 7, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Stefan Rinke: Review of "State-remote violence". Sehepunkte , May 15, 2015, accessed April 7, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Riekenberg, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover