Tomás Straka

Tomás Straka
File:Tomás Straka Medina.jpg Tomás Straka at the presentation of the book La épica del desencanto, July 2009.
Born	(1972-10-25) October 25, 1972 Caracas, Venezuela
Occupation	Historian, professor, and writer.
Nationality	Venezuelan

Tomás Helmut Straka Medina (October 25, 1972), is a Venezuelan professor of History and researcher at the Andrés Bello Catholic University, author of La Voz de los Vencidos (2000), Hechos y gente, Historia contemporánea de Venezuela (2001), Un Reino para este mundo (2006), La épica del desencanto (2009), La república fragmentada. Claves para entender a Venezuela (2015), among other works and essays. Is son of the Austrian anthropologist Hellmuth Straka and brother of the activist for Human Rights Ursula Straka.

Tomás Straka holds a PhD in History (Doctor en Historia), Andrés Bello Catholic University. He also is graduated from Instituto Pedagógico de Caracas and Universidad Central de Venezuela. He was visiting scholar at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and Pomona College.

Bibliography

• La voz de los vencidos, ideas del partido realista de Caracas (1810–1821), 2000.
• Hechos y gente, Historia contemporánea de Venezuela (Textbook about Venezuelan contemporary history), 2001.
• La alas de Ícaro, indagación sobre ética y ciudadanía en Venezuela (1800–1830)", 2005.
• Un reino para este mundo, Catolicismo y republicanismo en Venezuela (Revision of the relevance of catholic church during independence and the Republic of Venezuela since 1830), 2006.
• La Tradición de lo moderno, Venezuela en diez enfoques (As part of the staff of writers of this compilation book, Straka and Lorenzo González presents the essay "Pensar lo moderno", a study of the origins of modernity in Venezuela, 2006.
• Biographies of Julián Castro and Juan Crisóstomo Falcón for the "Biblioteca Biográfica Venezolana" of El Nacional, 2006/2007.
• Contra Bolívar (Compilation and comments about a series of articles of royalist journalist José Domingo Díaz against Simón Bolívar), 2009.
• La épica del desencanto (Analysis of Simón Bolívar as cult figure in Venezuelan politics, society and history), 2009.
• Instauración de la República Liberal Autocrática: claves para su interpretación 1830–1899 (Venezuela's panorama during the second half of 19th century), 2010.
• Historia de la Iglesia Católica en Venezuela. Documentos para su estudio. Along with historian Manuel Donís (Compilation of important documents of Venezuelan Catholic Church), 2010.
• Las Independencias de Iberoamérica (Comp. with Agustín Sánchez Andrés and Michael Zeuske), 2011.
• Venezuela 1861–1936. La era de los gendarmes. Caudillismo y liberalismo autocrático, 2013.
• La república fragmentada. Claves para entender a Venezuela 2015.

References

• http://www.linkedin.com/pub/tom%C3%A1s-straka/90/73a/365
• Profile of Tomás Straka at the Biography of Julián Castro, Biblioteca Biográfica Venezolana, El Nacional, 2006
• Review about Straka and his career