Hanna Holborn Gray

Hanna Holborn Gray (birth name: Hanna Holborn; born 25 October 1930 in Heidelberg) is an American historian.

Life

Hanna Holborn is the granddaughter of physicist Ludwig Holborn and daughter of Hajo Holborn time historian who emigrated to the U.S. after his release as a university professor and after coming to power of the Nazi Party of Britain 1934. Her aunt, the political scientist Louise Holborn, also emigrated to the USA in 1933.

Holborn studied history and was later active in the 1950s and 1960s at various universities and engaged in their teaching and research activities, particularly the period of the Renaissance and the Reformation. In 1974 she was appointed professor of history at Yale University and was at the same time Provost of the University.

In 1977, she was the successor of Kingman Brewster, Jr. as Executive President of Yale University. The following year she became president of the University of Chicago and was the first woman to lead one of the largest and most important U.S. universities. The Office of the President of the University of Chicago she practiced from 1978 to 1993.

In 1987 she held the first lecture of Berta Benz Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz Foundation on the theme "Educational Diversity and the Unity of Learning ".

Prof. Hanna Holborn Gray is a member of the Council for the award of the Dan David Prize. Even after her retirement, she worked as a writer of historical and time- historical essays such as: "Cold War Universities: Tools of Power or Oases of Freedom"

Swell

• University of Chicago Presidential History
• Chambers Biographical Dictionary. Edinburgh 2002, ISBN 0-550-10051-2, S.632.