Walther L. Bernecker#
| Membership Number: | 3030 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2011 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://walther-bernecker.de/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2014 Professor Emeritus
- April 2002 - March 2003 special chair "Wilhelm and Alexander von Humboldt" in Mexico City
- 1998 - 2001 Dean of the WiSo Faculty at the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
- 1992 - 2014 Professor and Chair for International Studies at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg
- 1988 - 1992 Chair of Modern History at the University of Bern
Fields of Scholarship
- Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American history in the 19th and 20th centuries
Honours and Awards
- 2007 Ordinary Commander's Cross of the Order of Isabel la Católica awarded by King Juan Carlos I of Spain "for his outstanding services to the study of Spanish history and the spread of the Spanish language"
- 2009 Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
