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Gisela von Wobeser

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Gisela von Wobeser
Director of the Academia Mexicana de la Historia
In office
2003–2011
Personal details
Born (1944-01-23) 23 January 1944 (age 80)
Mexico City, Mexico
Alma materSchool of Philosophy and Letters, UNAM
OccupationHistorian
Awards
Academic background
ThesisLa industria azucarera en la región de Cuernavaca-Cuautla durante la epoca colonial (1986)
Academic work
DisciplineHistory
Sub-disciplineNew Spain
InstitutionsNational Autonomous University of Mexico

Gisela von Wobeser Hoepfner (born 23 January 1944) is a Mexican historian. An alumni of School of Philosophy and Letters, UNAM, she is a former professor at UNAM and has published several history books on New Spain. She is a member of the Academia Mexicana de la Historia (of which she was director from 2003 until 2011) and Mexican Academy of Sciences, as well as a 1999 Guggenheim Fellow.

Biography

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Gisela von Wobeser Hoepfner was born on 23 January 1944 in Mexico City.[1] She was educated at the School of Philosophy and Letters, UNAM, where she got her BA (1969), MA (1978), and PhD (1986) in History.[2][3] Her dissertation is titled La industria azucarera en la región de Cuernavaca-Cuautla durante la epoca colonial.[4]

In 1979, she began teaching at UNAM,[5] and she was promoted to professor in 1989.[3] She became a researcher at the Institute of Historical Research [es] in 1980,[6] where she was director from 1989 until 1997.[5] She was director of the Casa de las Humanidades [es] from 2000 until 2006.[5]

As an academic, she has published several books and articles on the history of New Spain, including El crédito eclesiástico en la Nueva España, siglo XVIII (1994) and Orígenes del culto a nuestra señora de Guadalupe, 1521-1688 (2020).[7] In 1999, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship "for a study of the social and economic function of church property in 18th-century New Spain".[3]

In 1992, she was elected a member of the Academia Mexicana de la Historia (AMH),[3] where she holds the 26th seat.[8] She served as secretary from 1996 to 2003.[5] In 2003, she was appointed director of the AMH, a position she held until 2011.[5] She is also a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences (1993), the Mexican Committee of Historical Sciences [es] (1996), and the Mexican Society of Bibliophiles (2010), as well as a corresponding member of the Paraguayan Academy of History [es] (2003), the Chilean Academy of History (28 October 2003[9]), the Puerto Rican Academy of History (2003), the Portuguese Academy of History (2005), the Historical and Geographical Institute of Uruguay [es] (2005), the National Academy of History of Ecuador [es] (2006), the Real Academia Sevillana de Buenas Letras (2010), and the National Academy of History of Argentina (2010).[2]

Books

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References

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  1. ^ "GISELA VON WOBESER HOEPFNER (1944)" (PDF). Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas. Retrieved 26 July 2024.
  2. ^ a b "Von Wobeser Hoepfner, Gisela" (PDF). UNAM Posgrado Historia. Retrieved 26 July 2024.
  3. ^ a b c d Reports of the President and the Treasurer. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 1999. p. 162.
  4. ^ von Wobeser, Gisela (1986). La industria azucarera en la región de Cuernavaca-Cuautla durante la epoca colonial (PhD thesis). School of Philosophy and Letters, UNAM. OCLC 1066343398.
  5. ^ a b c d e "Gisela von Wobeser Hoepfner". Academia Mexicana de la Historia (in Spanish). Retrieved 26 July 2024.
  6. ^ "GISELA VON WOBESER". Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas. Archived from the original on 14 June 2009. Retrieved 26 July 2024.
  7. ^ "Gisela von Wobeser Hoepfner". Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas (in Spanish). Retrieved 26 July 2024.
  8. ^ "de Número Actuales". Academia Mexicana de la Historia (in Spanish). Retrieved 26 July 2024.
  9. ^ "ACADÉMICOS CORRESPONDIENTES EN EL EXTRANJERO EUROPA" (PDF). Boletín de la Academia Chilena de la Historia (127): 209. 2018.
  10. ^ Van Young, Eric (1985). "Review of La formación de la hacienda en la época colonial: El uso de la tierra y el agua". Agricultural History. 59 (3): 462–463. ISSN 0002-1482 – via JSTOR.
  11. ^ Tenenbaum, Barbara A. (1998). "Review of El Crédito eclesiástico en la Nueva España, Siglo XVIII". The Americas. 54 (4): 603–604. doi:10.2307/1007784. ISSN 0003-1615 – via JSTOR.
  12. ^ Martínez, Gerardo Alvarez (1994). "Review of El crédito eclesiástico en la Nueva España, siglo XVIII". Revista de Historia de América (118): 184–186. ISSN 0034-8325 – via JSTOR.
  13. ^ Cruz, Eduardo Ángel (2021). "Review of Orígenes del culto de nuestra señora de Guadalupe, 1521-1688". Iberoamericana (2001-). 21 (78): 294–297. ISSN 1577-3388 – via JSTOR.
  14. ^ Baracs, Rodrigo Martínez (2024). "Review of Orígenes del culto a nuestra señora de Guadalupe, 1521-1688". Historia Mexicana. 73 (4 (292)): 1869–1879. ISSN 0185-0172 – via JSTOR.