Monday, January 21, 2019

Colección de Documentos para la Historia de la Formación Social de Hispanoamérica, 1493-1810, Vol. I (1493- 1592)


Konetzke, Richard, Colección de documentos para la historia de la formación social de Hispanoamérica, 1493-1810, Vol. I (1493- 1592), Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 1953.

Les volumes un et deux examinés dans Bulletin Hispanique, Année 1959, 61-4.

Reviewed in The Americas © 1955.

Reviewed in The Hispanic American Historical Review © 1954.

Reseñada en Revista de Historia de América © 1954 .

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 education service. In 1925 followed studies in the Spanish archives on the history of enlightened absolutism in Spain. The research led to the 1929 published work on The Politics of Count Aranda, in which he honors the work of the Spanish statesman Pedro Abarca. Since 1930 he was a teacher. Konetzke's 1939 story 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 in Berlin to undertake research on the history of the 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 special attention to the social history of colonial Hispanic America.

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