About Theodora Büttner
Born 1930. Theodora Büttner is a German historian, university teacher and africanist.
Theodora Büttner (born Theodora Reichel; 17 June 1930) is a retired East German historian. For many years she was a professor at the Karl Marx University (as it was known at the time) in Leipzig. Much of her own research was focused on the precolonial history of Africa and on the anti-colonial liberation movements.
Life Theodora Reichel was born in Thum, a small former mining town in the hills south of Chemnitz. Her mother worked in retailing and her father was employed as a businessman. During this period she was employed as a research assistant (1954–1961) and then as a senior research assistant (1961–1965) in the Middle Ages Department at the Institute for General History of Leipzig University.
Output Theodora Büttner: "Die sozialreligiöse Bewegung der Circumcellionen (Agoniten)", in: Hellmut Kretzschmar: Vom Mittelalter zur Neuzeit: Zum 65. Geburtstag von Heinrich Sproemberg. Rütten & Loening, Berlin 1956 (Forschungen zur mittelalterlichen Geschichte, Band 1). Theodora Büttner. Die Circumcellionen, eine sozial-religiöse Bewegung, Leipzig 1957, Dissertation Universität Leipzig, 14. September 1957. Theodora Büttner, : Circumcellionen und Adamiten, 2 Formen mittelalterlicheb Haeresie, Akamedmie-Verlag, Berlin 1959 (Forschungen zur mittelalterlichen Geschichte, Band 2). Thea Büttner: Die sozialökonomische Struktur Adamauas im 19. Jahrhundert, Leipzig 1965, (Habilitationsschrift Leipzig University 11. Juni 1965).
Theodora Büttner (Hrsg.): Geschichte Afrikas, 4 Bände, Akademie-Verlag, Berlin / Pahl-Rugenstein, Köln, 1976 bis 1984 (die 2. Auflage Köln 1985 unter dem Titel: Afrika: Geschichte von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart): Teil 1: Thea Büttner: Afrika von den Anfängen bis zur territorialen Aufteilung Afrikas durch die imperialistischen Kolonialmächte 1976, 1985. Teil 2: Heinrich Loth: Afrika unter imperialistischer Kolonialherrschaft und die Formierung der antikolonialen Kräfte, 1884–1945 1976, 1985, Teil 3: Christian Mährdel u.a.: Afrika vom Zweiten Weltkriege bis zum Zusammenbruch des imperialistischen Kolonialsystems. 1983, 1985. Teil 4: Tea Büttner: Afrika vom Zusammenbruch des imperialistischen Kolonialsystems bis zur Gegenwart. 1984, 1985. Thea Büttner, Albin Kress (Hrsg.): African studies = Afrika Studien Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1990. (Studien über Asien, Afrika und Lateinamerika, Band 40).
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