Background

Lieuwen, Edwin was born on February 8, 1923 in Harrison, South Dakota, United States. Son of John and Hannah (Muilenberg) Lieuwen.

Education

Bachelor of Arts California, Berkeley, 1947. Master of Arts, University California, Berkeley, 1948. Doctor of Philosophy, University California, Berkeley, 1951.

Career

His area of expertise was focused on Latin America. His work was a major precursor to the establishing of the Latin American Institute. He then received a Fulbright lectureship to attend the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands.

After his return from the Netherlands, he worked for three years as a policy analyst at the United States State Department for three years.

In 1957 he was appointed as chairman to the history department as the University of New Mexico. Lieuwen found himself in an academic circle that included France Vinton Scholes as the authority on Latin American studies.

His work established the Latin American studies program which would later become the Latin American Institute. He wrote for the Kirkus Review, The Journal of Economic History, Foreign Affairs, and several other academic journals.

He was considered an expert in several Latin-American fields including oil in.

Lieuwen died in 1988 in Albuquerque, New Mexico at the age of sixty-five. He is buried in Sunset Memorial Park. An award was named after Lieuwen by the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies for exceptional teaching and studies into Latin American policy and relations.

Achievements

• Edwin Lieuwen has been listed as a noteworthy historian, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Petroleum in Venezuela a History

    (This general history of petroleum in Venezuela was first ...)

  • Mexican Militarism: The Political Rise and Fall of the Revolutionary Army, 1910-1940

    ( This book examines the unique role a revolutionary army...)

  • Mexican Militarism; the Political Rise and Fall of the Revolutionary Army, 1910-1940

    (The unique role a revolutionary army plays in the politic...)

  • Mexican militarism;: The political rise and fall of the revolutionary army, 1910-1940

    (The unique role a revolutionary army plays in the politic...)

  • Petroleum in Venezuela
  • Mexican Militarism: The Political Rise and Fall of the Revolutionary Army: 1910-1940

Membership

Served to lieutenant (junior grade) United States Naval Reserve, 1943-1946. Member American History Association.

Connections

Married Marian Rachel Whitehead, April 11, 1947. Children– John Neal, Peter Edwin, Andrew Lee, James Earl, Catherine Annual.

Father:

John Lieuwen

Mother:

Hannah (Muilenberg) Lieuwen

Spouse:

Marian Rachel Whitehead

child:

John Neal Lieuwen

child:

Andrew Lee Lieuwen

child:

James Earl Lieuwen

child:

Peter Edwin Lieuwen

child:

Catherine Annual Lieuwen