Lisa Jardine

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Lisa Jardine (July 2015)

Lisa Anne Jardine CBE (born April 12, 1944 in Oxford ; died October 25, 2015 in London ) was a British historian and publicist.

Life

Lisa Anne Bronowski was the eldest daughter of the scientist and publicist Jacob Bronowski and the sculptor Rita Coblentz. After a marriage to the philosopher Nicholas Jardine, she was married to the architect John Hare since 1982 and had two sons and a daughter.

Jardine attended Cheltenham Ladies' College and Newnham College in Cambridge and studied literature at the University of Essex . At the University of Cambridge , she was with a thesis on Francis Bacon doctorate.

In 1990 she became a professor of Renaissance studies at Queen Mary College of the University of London . In 2011 she moved to University College London . From 2008 to January 2014, she chaired the Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority .

Jardine published seventeen books and fifty scientific articles by 2008, much of her work as co-author and co-editor. She has contributed to leading British newspapers and has appeared in science programs on radio and television. In 2009 she received the “Cundill Prize in History” from McGill University for her book Going Dutch , the highest endowed prize for a historian.

Jardine was a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and an Honorary Fellow of King's College (Cambridge) and Jesus College (Cambridge) . She has received honorary doctorates from the University of St Andrews , Sheffield Hallam University , the Open University and the University of Aberdeen . In 2015 she was elected to the Royal Society .

In 2002 she was the chair of the judges for the Man Booker Prize ; Before that she was a juror at the 1996 Whitbread Prize for fiction , 1997 the Orange Prize for Fiction , 1999 the Guardian First Book Award and 2000 the Orwell Prize .

Jardine also looked after her father's scientific legacy and his epoch-making television series The Ascent of Man ; In 2014, his archive in Cambridge was opened to research.

Fonts (selection)

  • Francis Bacon: Discovery and the Art of Discourse . Cambridge University Press, 1974, ISBN 0-521-20494-1 , PhD Cambridge.
  • Still Harping on Daughters: Women and Drama in the Age of Shakespeare . Harvester Press, Sussex 1983.
  • with Graham Rees (Ed.): The Oxford Francis Bacon (OFB)
  • with Anthony Grafton : From Humanism to the Humanities. Education and the Liberal Arts in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Europe . Harvard University Press, Cambridge (Massachusetts) 1986, ISBN 0-674-32460-9 .
  • with Julia Swindells: What's Left ?: Women in Culture and the Labor Movement . 1989
  • Erasmus, man of letters. The Construction of Charisma in Print . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993
  • Reading Shakespeare Historically . Routledge, London / New York 1996.
  • Worldly Goods: A New History of the Renaissance . Nan A. Talese, New York 1996.
    • The splendor of the Renaissance: an age is discovered . From the English by Anne Spielmann. List, Munich 1999.
  • (Ed.): Erasmus : The Education of a Christian prince with the Panegyric for Archduke Philip of Austria . 1997
  • with Alan Stewart : Hostage to Fortune: The Troubled Life of Francis Bacon . Hill and Wang, New York 1998.
  • Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution . Nan A. Talese, New York 1999.
  • with Jerry Brotton: Global Interests: Renaissance Art Between East and West . Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY 2000.
  • On a grander scale. The Outstanding Life of Sir Christopher Wren . HarperCollins, New York 2003, ISBN 0-06-019974-1 .
  • Jim Bennett, Michael Cooper, Michael Hunter, Lisa Jardine: London's Leonardo: the life and work of Robert Hooke . Oxford University Press, 2003, ISBN 0-19-852579-6 .
  • The Awful End of Prince William the Silent: The First Assassination of a Head of State with a Handgun. Harper Perennial, 2007, ISBN 978-0-00-719258-8 .
  • Going Dutch: How England Plundered Holland's Glory . Harper, New York 2008.

literature

Web links

Commons : Lisa Jardine  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kevin Rawlinson: Renowned historian Lisa Jardine dies aged 71. In: theguardian.com . The Guardian , October 26, 2015, accessed October 28, 2015.
  2. ↑ Lisa Jardine: Rita Bronowski obituary. In: theguardian.com . The Guardian , September 22, 2010 (English).
  3. ^ Alan Macfarlane: Born in 1944 in Ruskin College, Oxford. In: repository.cam.ac . October 31, 2008 (English).
  4. ^ A b Steve Connor: Lisa Jardine: 'Nobody wants to run stories about the people who go through IVF for nothing'. , In: independent.co.uk . The Independent , November 3, 2013 (English).
  5. ^ Professor Lisa Jardine to step down as Chair of the HFEA. ( Memento of the original from February 23, 2014 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. In: hfea.gov.uk . HFEA, October 26, 2013 (English). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hfea.gov.uk
  6. ↑ Lisa Jardine , In: gresham.ac.uk . Gresham College (English).
  7. ↑ Lisa Jardine. , In: livesandletters.ac.uk . Center for Editing Lives and Letters (English).
  8. ↑ Erica Wagner : The last renaissance man. In: Financial Times , November 22, 2014, p. 20.
personal data
SURNAME Jardine, Lisa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jardine, Lisa Anne (full name); Bronowski, Lisa Anne (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British historian and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Oxford , England, UK
DATE OF DEATH October 25, 2015
Place of death London