John Grenville

John Grenville

John Ashley Soames Grenville (Berlín, 11 de enero de 1928 - Reino Unido, 7 de marzo de 2011) fue un historiador especializado en la Edad Contemporánea.[1] [2]

Nació en una familia judía alemana, y su nombre inicialmente fue Hans Grauber. En 1939 huyó de la persecución nazi mediante el Kindertransport. Estudió en una Prep school de Essex y en la Cambridge Technical School. Continuó su formación con un gardening job en Peterhouse, Cambridge. Estudió en el Birkbeck College (University of London) y en la London School of Economics, donde se doctoró.

Realizó docencia en la Universidad de Yale, en la Birmingham University, en la Universidad de Hamburgo y en el Leo Baeck Institute de Londres.

Obtuvo la Hutchinson Medal.[3]

En su honor se ha instituido el John A. S. Grenville PhD Studentship in Modern Jewish History and Culture del Leo Baeck Institute.[4]

Obras

Lord Salisbury and Foreign Policy, the Close of the Nineteenth Century

The Major International Treaties 1914-1973

Europe Reshaped 1848-1878

A World History of the 20th Century

The Jews of Hamburg: The Death of a Civilization from 1790 to the Holocaust.

Year Book of the Leo Baeck Institute, Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2007, (Co-Ed. with Raphael Gross)

Preface to Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook LV (2010)

Modernism/modernity[5]

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Referencias

  1. ↑ http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/may/22/john-grenville-obituary Obituario, Guardian]
  2. ↑ Obituario, Universidad de Leeds
  3. ↑ http://archives.lse.ac.uk/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=IMAGELIBRARY%2F1340
  4. ↑ http://www.leobaeck.co.uk/archives/2146
  5. ↑ Reseña (1996)

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