John Huxtable Elliott

Sir John Huxtable Elliott (born June 23, 1930 in Reading , Berkshire ) is a British historian who dealt with the 16th to 18th centuries, particularly in Spain and its colonial empire in Latin America.

Elliott attended Eton College and studied history at Trinity College of Cambridge University , among others, Steven Runciman and Herbert Butterfield , who supervised his doctorate. He decided to study Spanish history in the early modern period and made contact with Catalan historians such as Jaume Vices Vivens while working on the Catalan uprising of 1640 . He was also influenced by the Annales School and especially Fernand Braudel , whom he attended in Paris, which also brought him to occupy himself with economic and financial history, especially the economic decline of Spain in the early modern period and the measures taken there (e.g. B. Arbitrism ). From 1957 to 1967 he was a lecturer at Cambridge and from 1968 to 1973 professor at King's College London . From 1973 to 1990 he was professor at the Institute for Advanced Study and thereafter until his retirement in 1997 as Regius Professor of History in Oxford.

He is regarded in England as a pioneer and recognized authority for the study of early modern Spain, is a representative of comparative history and wrote a biography of Olivares , for which he received the Wolfson History Prize , and a book in which he shared this with Cardinal Richelieu compared. Elliott also dealt with art history.

In 1999 he received the Balzan Prize and the Creu de Sant Jordi Prize and in 1996 the Prince of Asturias Prize . In 1972 he became a Fellow of the British Association .

He is an Honorary Fellow of Oriol College, Oxford and Trinity College, Cambridge and holds an honorary professorship and an honorary doctorate from the University of Warwick . He is a fellow and co-founder of the Rothermere American Institute at Oxford University. Elliot was elected to the British Academy in 1972 , the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1977 , the American Philosophical Society in 1982, and the Academia Europaea in 1990.

Fonts (selection)

• Imperial Spain. 1469-1716. Arnold, London 1963.
• The revolt of the Catalans. A study in the decline of Spain. (1598-1640). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 1963.
• Europe divided 1559-1598. Collins, London 1968.
• The Old World and the New. 1492-1650 (= Wiles Lectures given at the Queen's University Belfast. 1969). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 1970, ISBN 0-521-07937-3 .
• with Jonathan Brown : A palace for a king. The Buen Retiro and the court of Philip IV. Yale University Press, New Haven CT et al. 1980, ISBN 0-300-02507-6 .
• The Count-Duke of Olivares. The statesman in an age of decline. Yale University Press, New Haven CT et al. 1986, ISBN 0-300-03390-7 .
• Richelieu and Olivares. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 1984, ISBN 0-521-26205-4 (received the Leon Gershoy Award from the American Historical Association).
• Spain and its world. 1500-1700. Selected essays. Yale University Press, New Haven CT et al. 1989, ISBN 0-300-04217-5 .
• Empires of the Atlantic World. Britain and Spain in America, 1492-1830. Yale University Press, New Haven CT et al. 2006, ISBN 0-300-11431-1 (received the Francis Parkman Prize in 2007 ).
• Spain, Europe & the wider world. 1500-1800. Yale University Press, New Haven CT et al. 2009, ISBN 978-0-300-14537-3 .
• History in the making. Yale University Press, New Haven CT et al. 2012, ISBN 978-0-300-18638-3 .

Web links

• Biography at Making History