Anthony grafton biography

Anthony Thomas Grafton (born May 21, 1950) is an American historian of early modern Europe and the Henry Putnam University Professor of History at Princeton.
Professor Grafton is the author of ten books and the coauthor, editor, coeditor, or translator of nine others.
Grafton was among some seventy-five admitted in history, and among the fifteen or so to receive a PhD—in his case, just four years later.

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Interview with AHA President-elect Anthony Grafton

Anthony Grafton is the Henry Putnam University Professor of History at Princeton University. The majority of his research lies within the fields of the Renaissance and Reformation and Historiography. He earned his Ph.D. in History in 1975 from the University of Chicago and has been a professor at Princeton since that time. Professor Grafton has written ten books, such as Bring Out Your Dead: The Past as Revelationand Worlds Made by Words: Scholarship and Community in the Modern West. This interview was conducted by e-mail.

What made you interested in the field of historiography?

Reading the work of Arnaldo Momigliano when I was an undergraduate.

You are currently researching the science of chronology in 16th and 17th century Europe. What has been some of you most exciting finds in this research so far?

Chiefly learning about how Christian scholars in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries began using Jewish evidence—particularly evidence about Passover—to try to understand t

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Anthony Grafton

A Premature Autobiography? – Rome, 13.11.2002

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Balzan Prize 2002 for the History of the Humanities

For his outstanding work on the history of scholarship, especially of the classical tradition in European intellectual history since the Renaissance, including the history of the evolution of scholarly practices, techniques, and attitudes, and the links between humanist learning and the development of modern science.

1. A strange journey

For thirty years, I have been walking down an imaginary street-a long, winding, cobbled lane. Its inhabitants are the dead-but only the dead of a particular kind: scholars, who did their best to understand old texts, recreate lost beliefs, and reconstruct lost institutions. I seek out their houses, knock at their doors, and beg for a few minutes of their time. And they, in their humanity, allow me to interrupt their studies and welcome me, as they welcomed contemporaries who called on them, armed with the proper letters of recommendation. They show me the thickly annotated books on their shelves, let me examine the

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Anthony Grafton

American historian (born 1950)

Anthony Thomas Grafton (born May 21, 1950) is an American historian of early modern Europe and the Henry Putnam University Professor of History at Princeton University, where he is also the Director the Program in European Cultural Studies.^[2]^[3] He is also a corresponding fellow of the British Academy and a recipient of the Balzan Prize. From January 2011 to January 2012, he served as the President of the American Historical Association.^[2] From 2006 to 2020, Grafton was co-executive editor of the Journal of the History of Ideas.

Early life and education

Grafton was born on May 21, 1950, in New Haven, Connecticut. He was educated at Phillips Academy.

He attended the University of Chicago, from which he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history in 1971 and a Master of Arts degree in 1972. He made Phi Beta Kappa in 1970, with honors in history and in the college. After studying at University College, London, under ancient historianArnaldo Momigliano, from 1973 to 1974, he ear