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Katz, Friedrich was born on June 13, 1927 in Vienna, Austria. Came to the United States, 1970. Son of Leo and Bronia (Rein) Katz.
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From small village communities to prosperous city-states that culminated in the magnificent empires of the Aztecs and Incas, this classic work traces the development of pre-Columbian America, its inhabitants, agriculture, and cultural sphere. "...a product of judicious reflection by an able mind fully abreast of a widely dispersed literature..."--American Historical Review. "...a fine example of how a scholar can tap both archeological and historical resources to produce a lucid synthesis of an area."--Latin American Research Review.
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Friedrich Katz's book on the great powers and Mexico is far more than a diplomatic history of the 1910-1920 era. It is a penetrating analysis of the social basis and leadership of the Mexican Revolution, woven into the story of how Mexican factions used and were used by Europeans and North Americans in the period immediately preceding and during the First World War.
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Katz, Friedrich was born on June 13, 1927 in Vienna, Austria. Came to the United States, 1970. Son of Leo and Bronia (Rein) Katz.
Bachelor, Wagner College, New York City, 1948. Doctor of Philosophy, University Vienna, 1954. Dr Habilitatus, Humboldt University, Berlin, 1962.
Degree (honorary), University Michoacan, Mexico, 2004. Golden Doctorate, University Vienna, 2004. Degree (honorary), University Puebla, Mexico, 2005.
"He was arguably Mexico"s most widely regarded historian. The American Historical Association has created a book prize in honor of Friedrich Katz. Katz was born in Vienna, Austria into a Jewish family led by Leo Katz and Bronia Rein that eventually escaped from Nazi persecution.
After failing to settle in France and in the United States due to the Communist affiliation of his father and specifically his role as an arms buyer for Republican Spain, his family moved to Mexico, where he arrived at the age of 13 and completed his basic studies.
He obtained his baccalaureate from the Liceo Franco Mexicano in 1945. He began his bachelor"s degree studies at the National School of Anthropology and History (ENAH), which he eventually completed at Wagner College, in the United States.
As a university professor, he returned to Mexico to serve as a visiting scholar at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1968-1969) and a year later he joined the University of Texas at Austin. In 1971 he joined to the University of Chicago where, eventually, he was appointed the Morton Doctorate. Hull Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Latin American History.
On his 80th birthday, two university colloquia were organized in his honor by the University of Chicago and El Colegio de México.
He died on 16 October 2010 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Decorated, Order del Aguila Azteca President Republic of Mexico, 1988, Order of Academic Merit Governor State of Jalisco, Mexico, 1988. Member of American Association for the Advancement of Science, Mexican Academy of Sciences.
Married Jana Badian, February 8, 1956. Children: Leo, Jacqueline.