Tulio Halperín Donghi

Tulio Halperin Donghi (October 27, 1926 – November 14, 2014) was an Argentine historian. After earning a Ph.D in history and a law degree at the University of Buenos Aires, he taught at the institution's Faculty of Arts from 1955 to 1966. Halperin Donghi then moved to the National University of the Litoral, where he served as Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy, History and Ciences. He later taught at Oxford University, and became a faculty member of the University of California, Berkeley in 1972.

Biography Halperin Donghi was born in Buenos Aires in 1926. He received both a juris doctor and a Doctorate in History from the University of Buenos Aires in 1955. Halperín became a renowned Latin American historian.

Exiled in 1966, following the Noche de los Bastones Largos [Night of the Long Batons], he divided his time between the University of California and the University of Buenos Aires. Halperin was given an award for Scholarly Distinction from the American Historical Association in 1998, and authored numerous books.

Books Un conflicto nacional: moriscos y cristianos viejos en Valencia, 1957 Tradición política española e ideología revolucionaria de Mayo, 1961 Historia contemporánea de América Latina, 1967 (other editions El Río de la Plata al comenzar el siglo XIX, 1961 Historia de la Universidad de Buenos Aires, 1962 Revolución y Guerra: Formación de una élite dirigente en la Argentina criolla, 1972 The Aftermath of Revolution in Latin America (translation of Hispanoamérica después de la independencia), 1973 Politics, Economics and Society in Argentina in the Revolutionary Period (translation of Revolución y Guerra), 1975 La democracia de masas, 1991 The Contemporary History of Latin America (translation of Historia de América Latina), 1993 Proyecto y construcción de una Nación, 1996 Son Memorias, 2008 La Argentina y la Tormenta Del Mundo: Ideas e Ideologías Entre 1930 y 1945