Simon Schama

Simon Schama ( born February 13, 1945 in London ) is a British professor of art history at Columbia University, New York.

Career

Schama studied history at Cambridge. From 1966-1976 he was a Fellow at the city's Christ's College.

From 1976 to 1980 he was a Fellow and Lecturer in Modern History at Brasenose College, Oxford. From 1980 to 1993 he was professor of history, " Mellon Professor of the Social Sciences " and " William Kenan Professor of the Humanities " at Harvard and " senior associate of the Center for European Studies ". He has taught at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and was " Trevelyan Lecturer" in Cambridge and " Tanner Lecturer" both in Oxford ( about Rubens and Rembrandt ) and at Harvard. In 2001 he held the Finzi Contini Lecture at Yale on English History: In Defence of the Epic and in June 2002 he was the Phi Beta Kappa orator at Harvard ( The Fate of Eloquence in the Age of the Osbournes, printed in The New Republic ).

Schama A History of Britain was also a documentary filmed and aired between 2000 and 2002 in six parts of the BBC, where he presents the history of Britain at numerous historic sites. The full series is also available on six DVDs.

The book The American Future is concerned, inter alia, to generally with the course of time very differently assessed the role of German immigrants and with the attitude of Americans toward immigration.

Works (selection)

  • Patriots and Liberators: Revolution in the Netherlands 1780-1813 (1977 )
  • Two Rothschilds and the Land of Israel ( 1979)
  • The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age (1987 )
  • Citizens. A Chronicle of the French Revolution ( 1989)
  • Landscape and Memory (1995 )
  • Rembrandt 's Eyes (1999)
  • A History of Britain. Trilogy: Volume I - The Edge of the World (2000); Volume 2 - The British Wars (2001); Volume 3 - The Fate of Empire (2002)
  • Rough Crossings. Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution ( 2005)
  • The Power of Art ( 2007)
  • The American Future: A History from the Pilgrim Fathers to Barack Obama ( 2008), 2nd edition 2009: ISBN 978-0-099-52039-9

Published in German language

  • Abundance and beautiful appearance (1988 )
  • The hesitant Citoyen (1989 )
  • Truth without guarantee ( 1993)
  • The Dream of the Wild ( 1996)
  • Rembrandt's Eyes (2000), ISBN 3-88680-702-9
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