Jonathan Israel

Jonathan Irvine Israel (born January 26, 1946 in London ) is a British historian who is particularly concerned with the radical Enlightenment , the history of republican democratic ideas in the 17th and 18th centuries, and modern Dutch history .

Life

Israel studied at Queen's College of Cambridge University and at Oxford University (with a study visit at El Colegio de México in Mexico City) with a doctorate in 1972. From 1970 he was Sir James Knott Research Fellow at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and from 1972 Assistant Lecturer and then Lecturer for Early Modern European History at the University of Hull . In 1974 he became a lecturer at University College London , 1981 reader and 1984 professor of Dutch history. Since 2001 he has been Professor of Modern European History and a permanent member of the Institute for Advanced Study .

In his book Radical Enlightenment (2001) he sees movements critical of religion around Baruch de Spinoza in the Netherlands in the 17th century and republican ideas developed during this time as the root of the modern democratic state idea. He followed the history of ideas of democratic ideas further in Enlightenment Contested (2006) and Democratic Enlightenment (2011) until the end of the 18th century. He also dealt with the history of Dutch world trade and its relationship to the Spanish overseas empire and the history of European Jews in the early modern period.

Honors

In 2008 he received the AH Heineken Prize for History , in 2001 the Leo Gershoy Prize of the American Historical Association, in 2010 the Benjamin Franklin Medal (Royal Society of Arts) and in 1986 the Wolfson History Prize . In 1992 he became a Fellow of the British Academy and in 1994 a corresponding member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences . Since 2000 he has been a member of the Academia Europaea . In 2004 he became a knight of the Order of the Dutch Lion.

Fonts

• Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity , 1650-1750, Oxford University Press, 2001.
• Enlightenment Contested: Philosophy, Modernity, and the Emancipation of Man , 1670–1752, Oxford University Press, 2006
• A Revolution of the Mind: Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Democracy , Princeton University Press, 2009.
• Democratic Enlightenment: Philosophy, Revolution, and Human Rights 1750–1790 , Oxford University Press, 2011.
• Revolutionary Ideas: An Intellectual History of the French Revolution from The Rights of Man to Robespierre , Princeton University Press, Oxford / Princeton 2014.
  • German by Ulrich Bossier : The French Revolution. Ideas make politics . Reclam, Stuttgart 2017, ISBN 978-3-15-011004-1 .
• Dutch Primacy in World Trade, 1585-1740 , Clarendon Press, Oxford 1989.
• The Dutch Republic. Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall 1477-1806 (= Oxford History of Modern Europe), Clarendon Press, Oxford 1995.
• European Jewry in the Age of Mercantilism, 1550–1750 , Oxford University Press, 1986 (received the Wolfson Prize)
• Race, Class and Politics in Colonial Mexico, 1610–70 , Oxford Historical Monographs, 1975
• The Dutch Republic and the Hispanic World, 1606-61 , Clarendon Press, 1982
• Empires and Entrepots: The Dutch, the Spanish Monarchy and the Jews, 1585-1713 , Hambledon Press, 1990
• Conflicts of Empires: Spain, the Low Countries and the Struggle for World Supremacy, 1585-1713 , Hambledon Press, 1997
• Diasporas Within a Diaspora: Jews, Crypto-Jews and the World of Maritime Empires (1540–1740) , Brill's Series in Jewish Studies, 2002
• with Stuart B. Schwartz: The expansion of tolerance: religion in Dutch Brazil (1624–1654) , Amsterdam University Press, 2007
• Editor with Reinier Salverda: Dutch Jewry: Its History and Secular Culture (1500–2000) , Brill's Series in Jewish Studies, 2002
• Editor with C. Berkvens-Stevelinck, GHM: Posthumus Meyjes: The emergence of tolerance in the Dutch Republic , Brill, 1997
• Editor with Ole Peter Grell, Nicholas Tyacke: From persecution to toleration: the Glorious Revolution and religion in England , Clarendon Press 1991
• Editor and translator (with Michael Silverthorne): Baruch de Spinoza, Theological-political treatise , Cambridge University Press, 2007

Web links

• For appointment at IAS