Anthony Grafton

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Anthony Grafton, during a lecture at the Gotha Research Center , 2010

Anthony Grafton (also: Anthony Thomas Grafton ) (born May 21, 1950 in New Haven ) is an American historian and currently holds the Henry Putnam University Professorship at Princeton University as well as a corresponding member of the British Academy and recipient of the Balzan Prize .

Life

Grafton trained at Phillips Academy and the University of Chicago , where he received his AB and Ph.D. acquired in quick succession. For a short time he also studied at the University of London with the famous ancient historian Arnaldo Momigliano and has had connections with the Warburg Institute ever since . After a brief position in the Department of History at Cornell University , he was called to Princeton University in 1975 , where he has worked ever since. Since January 2007 he has been co-editor of the Journal of the History of Ideas . In 2011, he succeeded Barbara Metcalf in the office of President of the American Historical Association .

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Grafton is known for his studies of the classical tradition from the Renaissance to the 18th century and the history of historiography . His numerous books include a profound study of scholarship and the chronology of the most outstanding philologist of the late Renaissance, Joseph Justus Scaliger , a revisionist account (together with Lisa Jardine ) of the importance of the educational program of the Renaissance ( From Humanism to the Humanities , 1986) and more recently Time studies with the astrologer Girolamo Cardano (1999) and with Leon Battista Alberti (2000). The best introduction to his study of the relationships between scholarship and science in the early modern period is arguably his book Defenders of the Text (1991). His most original and at the same time 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 historiography from below.

In addition, Grafton writes on a wide variety of topics for The New Yorker , The New Republic , The American Scholar, and The New York Review of Books . He owns a book wheel that he has set up in his office.

Honors

Fonts

Monographs
  • Joseph Scaliger: A Study in the History of Classical Scholarship. (Oxford-Warburg Studies). Oxford University Press, Oxford 1983-1993.
  • with Lisa Jardine : From Humanism to the Humanities. Duckworth, London 1986.
  • Forgers and Critics. Creativity and Duplicity in Western Scholarship. Princeton University Press, Princeton 1990.
  • Defenders of the Text: The Traditions of Scholarship in the Age of Science, 1450-1800. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA 1991.
  • Commerce with the Classics: Ancient Books and Renaissance Readers. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor 1997.
  • The Footnote: A Curious History. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA 1997.
  • Cardano's Cosmos: The Worlds and Works of a Renaissance Astrologer. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA 1999.
    • German: Cardanos Kosmos: the worlds and works of a Renaissance astrologer . Berlin-Verlag, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-8270-0168-4 .
  • Leon Battista Alberti: Master Builder of the Italian Renaissance. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA 2000.
  • Bring Out Your Dead: The Past as Revelation. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA 2001.
  • with Moshe Idel (ed.): The Magus. Its origins and history in different cultures . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-05-003560-9 .
  • What Was History ?: The Art of History in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, MA 2006.
  • with Megan Hale Williams: Christianity and the Transformation of the Book: Origen, Eusebius, and the Library of Caesarea. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA 2006.
  • Codex in Crisis. The Crumpled Press, New York 2008. Video: Anthony Grafton: Codex in Crisis. Authors @ Google , February 12, 2009
  • Worlds Made by Words: Scholarship and Community in the Modern West. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA 2009, ISBN 978-0-674-03257-6 .
  • "I Have Always Loved the Holy Tongue": Isaac Casaubon, The Jews, and a Forgotten Chapter in Renaissance Scholarship. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA 2011.
  • with Daniel Rosenberg Cartographies of Time. A History of the Timeline. Princeton Architectural Press, New York, NY 2010, ISBN 978-1-56898-763-7 .
Editorships
Essays

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Member History: Anthony Grafton. American Philosophical Society, accessed August 26, 2018 .
  2. ↑ De audatio van Professor Nicolette Mout en het dankwoord van Professor Anthony Grafton (PDF), on academia.edu, accessed on September 16, 2019
  3. ↑ Chapter 4 deals with the role of the note as a means of conversation and a comic vehicle in the late 18th century, cf. Barbara Ravelhofer: Variatio alla turca - Byron's The Giaour (1813). In: Christa Jansohn and Bodo Plachta (eds.): Variants - Variants - Variantes. Niemeyer, Tübingen 2005, ISBN 3-484-29522-8 , pp. 157-166, p. 163, footnote 24.
  4. ^ Véronique Krings: Review In: Bryn Mawr Classical Review. 2009-09-32
personal data
SURNAME Grafton, Anthony
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH New Haven