Anthony Grafton

Anthony Grafton (also: Thomas Anthony Grafton ) ( born May 21, 1950 in New Haven ) is an American historian of Jewish origin and currently Henry Putnam University Professor at Princeton University, Corresponding Member of the British Academy and recipient of the Balzan Prize.

Life

Grafton was at Phillips Academy and the University of Chicago trained, where he received his AB and his Ph.D. acquired in rapid succession. For a short time he also studied at the University of London at the famous historian Arnaldo Momigliano and has since been on relations with the Warburg Institute. After a brief tenure at the Department of History at Cornell University, he was established in 1975 at Princeton University, where he has since been working. Since January 2007 he is co-editor of the Journal of the History of Ideas. In 2011, he followed Barbara Metcalf, Office of the President of the American Historical Association.

Work

Awareness Grafton has gained through his studies of classical tradition from the Renaissance to the 18th century and the history of historiography. His many books include a profound study of learning and the chronology of the most outstanding philologists of the late Renaissance, Joseph Justus Scaliger, a revisionist presentation (along with Lisa Jardine ) the importance of the educational program of the Renaissance (From Humanism to the Humanities, 1986) and more recently term studies on the astrologer Girolamo Cardano (1999) and Leon Battista Alberti ( 2000). The best introduction to his study of the relationship between scholarship and science in the early modern period is probably his book Defenders of the Text ( 1991). His most original and yet most accessible work is The Footnote: A curious history ( 1997, in the German translation: The tragic origins of the German footnote ), a case study on the history of history from below.

In addition, writes Grafton contributions to the diverse topics for The New Yorker, The New Republic, The American Scholar and The New York Review of Books. He owns a Bücherrad, which he has set up in his office.

Honors

  • Los Angeles Times Book Prize, History, 1993
  • Balzan Prize for History of the Humanities, 2002
  • Doctor honoris causa, University of Leiden, 2006
  • Pour le Mérite, 2010
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