Gisela von Wobeser

Gisela von Wobeser Hoepfner (born 23 January 1944) is a Mexican historian. An alumna 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 Gisela von Wobeser Hoepfner was born on 23 January 1944 in Mexico City. She was educated at the School of Philosophy and Letters, UNAM, where she got her BA (1969), MA (1978), and PhD (1986) in History.

In 1979, she began teaching at UNAM, where she was director from 1989 until 1997. 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".

In 1992, she was elected a member of the Academia Mexicana de la Historia (AMH), She served as secretary from 1996 to 2003. In 2003, she was appointed director of the AMH, a position she held until 2011. ), the Puerto Rican Academy of History (2003), the Portuguese Academy of History (2005), the Historical and Geographical Institute of Uruguay (2005), the (2006), the Real Academia Sevillana de Buenas Letras (2010), and the National Academy of History of Argentina (2010). El crédito eclesiástico en la Nueva España, siglo XVIII (1994) Orígenes del culto a nuestra señora de Guadalupe, 1521-1688 (2020)