Friedrich Katz

Friedrich Katz
Born(1927-06-13)13 June 1927
Vienna, First Austrian Republic[1]
Died16 October 2010(2010-10-16) (aged 83)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.[2]
CitizenshipAustria
Alma materWagner College
University of Vienna (1954)
Humboldt University of Berlin (1962).[3]
AwardsBeveridge Award (1999)
Bolton Prize (1999)
Scientific career
Fields19th and 20th century history of Mexico and Latin America
InstitutionsUniversity of Chicago
Notable studentsJavier Garciadiego

Friedrich Katz (13 June 1927 – 16 October 2010) was an Austrian-born anthropologist and historian who specialized in 19th- and 20th-century history of Latin America, particularly in the Mexican Revolution.[4]

"He was arguably Mexico's most widely regarded historian... The whole of the Mexican press, left, right and center, noted and lamented his passing."[5] He served as co-director of the Mexican Studies Program at the University of Chicago,[3] co-received the 1999 Bolton Prize (nowadays Bolton-Johnson Prize) for the best English-language book on Latin American History by The Conference on Latin American History,[6] and was honored with the Order of the Aztec Eagle by the Government of Mexico.[7] He also won the 2000 Bryce Wood Book Award presented by the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) for outstanding English-language book in the humanities and social sciences for his book The Life and Times of Pancho Villa. The American Historical Association has created a book prize in honor of Friedrich Katz.

  1. ^ García Hernández, Arturo (9 November 2007). "Gracias a México me hice historiador: Friedrich Katz" (in Spanish). Mexico City: La Jornada. Retrieved 27 November 2009.
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  3. ^ a b "C. Friedrich Katz". Department of History, University of Chicago. Archived from the original on 25 December 2009. Retrieved 27 November 2009.
  4. ^ Andreas W. Daum, Hartmut Lehmann, James J. Sheehan (eds.), The Second Generation: Émigrés from Nazi Germany as Historians. With a Biobibliographic Guide. New York: Berghahn Books, 2016, ISBN 978-1-78238-985-9, 24, 34, 36, 390‒391 (including a short biography and bibliography).
  5. ^ Claudio Lomnitz, "On the Improbable Popularity of Friedrich Katz". Mexican Studies / Estudios Mexicanos, vol. 27, 1, Winter 2011, p. 233.
  6. ^ "Bolton-Johnson Prize". The Conference on Latin American History. 2009. Retrieved 27 November 2009.
  7. ^ "El Cardenismo sobre la mesa" (PDF) (in Spanish). Instituto Nacional de Estudios Históricos de la Revolución Mexicana. June 2002. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 August 2009. Retrieved 27 November 2009.