Hanna Holborn Gray
Hanna Holborn Gray , née Hanna Holborn , (born October 25, 1930 in Heidelberg ) is a German-American historian .
Life
Hanna Holborn is the granddaughter of the physicist Ludwig Holborn and daughter of the contemporary historian Hajo Holborn , who emigrated to the USA in 1934 after his dismissal as a university professor and after the NSDAP came to power over Great Britain . Her aunt, the political scientist Louise Holborn , also emigrated to the USA in 1933.
Holborn studied history and later worked at various universities in the 1950s and 1960s , and in her teaching and research she dealt in particular with the times of the Renaissance and the Reformation . In 1974 she was appointed professor of history at Yale University and was also Provost of the university .
In 1977, she succeeded Kingman Brewster, Jr. as executive president of Yale University . The following year she became president of the University of Chicago , becoming the first woman to lead one of the major and important US universities. She held the office of President of the University of Chicago from 1978 to 1993.
In 1987 she gave the first Berta Benz lecture of the Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz Foundation on the subject of "Educational Diversity and the Unity of Learning". There are photos of it in the Heidelberg University Archives.
Prof. Hanna Holborn Gray is a member of the council for awarding the Dan David Prize . She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1973) and the American Philosophical Society (1981) and has received the Presidential Medal of Freedom . Even after her retirement , she worked as an author of historical and contemporary articles such as: "Cold War Universities: Tools of Power or Oases of Freedom?"
Autobiographical
- Hanna Holborn Gray: Some Reflections on the Second Generation. In: Andreas W. Daum , Hartmut Lehmann , James J. Sheehan (eds.): The Second Generation. Émigrés from Nazi Germany as Historians. Berghahn Books, New York 2016, ISBN 978-1-78238-985-9 , 102-113.
- An Academic Life: A Memoir . Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 2018, ISBN 9780691179186 .
literature
- Hanna Holborn Gray (1978-1993). In: Presidential History , University of Chicago .
- Chambers Biographical Dictionary . Edinburgh 2002, ISBN 0-550-10051-2 , p. 632.
Individual evidence
- ^ Hanna Holborn Gray: Some Reflections on the Second Generation . In: Andreas W. Daum, Hartmut Lehmann, James J. Sheehan (eds.): The Second Generation. Émigrés from Nazi Germany as Historians. Berghahn, New York 2016, ISBN 978-1-78238-985-9 , pp. 102-113 .
- ↑ Bertha Benz Lecture ( Memento of the original from September 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Homepage of the Dan David Prize ( Memento of the original from July 23, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ FOREIGN AFFAIRS March / April 1997
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Holborn Gray, Hanna |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Holborn, Hanna (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-American historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 25, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Heidelberg |