Ragnhild Hatton

Ragnhild Marie Hatton ( born January 10, 1913 in Bergen, † 16 May 1995 London) was a native of Norway, British historian. She was in her time one of the leading English historian of the 17th and 18th centuries.

Life

Hatton was the daughter of Gustav and Marie Hanssen and went to a private school in Bergen and then in the cathedral school. She studied at the University of Oslo ( MA 1936). In their conclusion, she married the English businessman ( later he was a math teacher, he died in 1989 ) Harry Hatton, with whom she had two sons. The couple moved to London, where she continued working on her doctoral dissertation begun in Oslo University College. During World War II she worked for the British government. In 1947 she received her doctorate in GJ Renier and Mark A. Thomson " Diplomatic relations in between Great Britain and the Dutch Republic 1714-1721 ". In 1949 it was " Assistant Lecturer" at the London School of Economics, 1950 there, " Lecturer", 1958 " Reader" and from 1968 " Professor of International History". 1974 to 1978 she was Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Political Science, and from 1978 to 1981 Chairman of the History Department. In 1981, she retired. She was known among other things for biographies of Louis XIV, Charles XII. and George I., for which they each operate extensive archival research.

1964 to 1968 she was at the London Honours Board of Examiners in History and was also external examiner in history for the Universities of Nottingham ( 1965-1969 ), Edinburgh ( 1965-1970 ), Queen's University, Belfast (1972 /3) and the University of of Warwick ( 1975-1977 ). 1979 to 1983 she was in the Council of the Royal Historical Society.

She was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy (1954) and Honorary Member of the American Historical Association. In 1983, she was a Knight of the Norwegian Order of St. Olaf. She was a Senior Fellow of the British Academy in 1993. She received the Palmes Académique and was honorary doctorate from the Ohio State University.

Works (selection)

  • The Anglo - Hanoverian connection, 1714-1760. The Creighton Trust Lecture 1982; delivered before the University of London on Monday 15 November 1982. University Press, London 1982.
  • Diplomatic relations in between Great Britain and the Dutch Republic, 1714-1721. The Anglo - Netherlands Society, East & West Ltd, 1950 (dissertation).
  • Charles XII. of Sweden. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1968 ( Hatton also wrote a preface to an English edition of Voltaire's Charles XII. ).
  • Europe in the age of Louis XIV Thames and Hudson, London 1969.
  • George I. A German Elector on England's throne ( " George I of Great Britain: elector and king "). Societäts -Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 1982, ISBN 3-7973-0398- X.
  • Louis XIV and his world. Thames and Hudson, London 1972.
  • Charles XII and the Great Northern War in JS Bromley The Rise of Great Britain and Russia, 1688-1715/25, The New Cambridge Modern History, Volume 6, Cambridge University Press 1970
  • Scandinavia and the Baltic in JO Lindsay The Old Regime, 1713-1763, New Cambridge Modern History, Volume 7, CUP 1957
  • Captain James Jefferye 's letters to the Secretary of State, Whitehall, from the Swedish army, 1707-1709. In: Historiska handlingar, Vol 35, 1954, 1
  • Louis XIV and absolutism. Macmillan, London 1976.
  • Louis XIV and Europe. Macmillan, London 1976.
  • William III. and Louis XIV Essays 1680-1720; by and for Mark A. Thomson. Liverpool University Press, Liverpool, 1968 ( along with John S. Bromley )
  • Studies in diplomatic history. Essays in memory of David Bayne Horn. Longmans, Harlow, 1970 ( together with Matthew S. Anderson).
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