Arndt Brendecke#
| Membership Number: | 4216 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2016 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.fnz.geschichte.uni-muenchen.de/personen/professoren/brendecke_arndt/index.html |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2013 - 2014 Head of the History Department, University of Munich (LMU)
- 2011 Chair of Early Modern History, University of Munich (LMU)
- 2010 - 2011 Director of the Center for Global Studies, Institute of Advanced Study, University of Berne, Switzerland
- 2010 - 2011 Professor for the History and Culture of Latin America, University of Berne, Switzerland
- 2009 Research Fellow at the German Historical Institute, London
- 2008 Lectureship in Latin American History, University of Berne, Switzerland
- 2006 - 2009 Dilthey Fellow of the joint initiative ‘Pro Geisteswissenschaften’, Volkswagen Foundation and Fritz Thyssen Foundation
- 2002 - 2003 Research Fellow at the Instituto de Historia of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid
- 2001 - 2002, 2003 - 2006 Research assistant, History Department, University of Munich (LMU)
Fields of Scholarship
- Early modern European history
- Colonial history of Latin America
- Spanish history
- Comparative history of the European expansion
- History of knowledge and knowledge technologies
Honours and Awards
- 2014 Visiting professor at the Université Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne)
- 2012 'Geisteswissenschaften International' award of the German Publishers & Booksellers Association
- 2011 Chair offered for Early Modern European History at the Humboldt University, Berlin (declined)
- 2011 Chair offered for the History and Culture of Latin America, University of Berne, Switzerland (declined)
- 2010 Carl-Erdmann-prize of the German Historian’s Association for the best German habilitation thesis in history within the two previous years
