Colección de Documentos para la Historia de la Formación Social de Hispanoamérica, 1493-1810, Volúmenes 1 & 2

Konetzke, Richard, Colección de documentos para la historia de la formación social de Hispanoamérica, 1493-1810, Primer & Segundo Tomo, Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 1958.

Volume 1 reviewed in The Americas © 1955.

Reviewed in the Bulletin hispanique Année 1959.

Reviewed in the Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 37(3).

Richard Konetzke (Google translation):

Richard Konetzke studied history, German and philology in Marburg and Berlin. He received his scientific education especially from Otto Hintze and Friedrich Meinecke. In 1921 he received his doctorate with Meinecke and Ernst Troeltsch with the work Isaac Iselin and the state idea of the Enlightenment. After the graduation he entered the higher school service. 1925 followed studies in Spanish archives on the history of enlightened absolutism in Spain. The research culminated in 1929 published work on the policy of Count Aranda, in which he acknowledged the work of the Spanish statesman Pedro Abarca. Since 1930 he was a teacher. Konetzke's 1939 appearance History of the Spanish and Portuguese people became the standard work for Iberian history from the German point of view. In 1941 he was commissioned by the Friedrich Wilhelms University Berlin with research on the history of Spanish colonization in America. He was largely released from his obligations in the teaching profession. In 1943 his basic work The Spanish Empire was published. In 1944 he went to Spain for archive research. He paid particular attention to the social history of colonial Hispanic America. He continued his research on Latin American history from 1952 to 1954 as a Research Associate at Duke University in Durham. In 1954 he received a teaching assignment in Cologne. 1955 there was his habilitation. In the same year he became Scientific Council and in 1956 unscheduled professor. Konetzke has taught since 1961 as associate professor of Iberian and Latin American history of the University of Cologne and was also director of the Iberian Latin American Department of the Historical Seminary. Since 1964 he was Honorary Professor at the University of Córdoba. In 1964, together with Hermann Kellenbenz, he founded the Yearbook for the History of the State, Economy and Society of Latin America. In 1965 he became emeritus. His successor in 1967 was his pupil Günter Kahle. 1973 Konetzke was awarded the Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany. Konetzke is considered one of the founders of Latin American history..