Rhys Isaac

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Rhys Isaac (1984)

Rhys Llywelyn Isaac (born November 20, 1937 in Cape Town , South African Union , † October 6, 2010 in Blairgowrie , Victoria ) was a South African historian .

Life

Rhys Isaac was born in Cape Town in 1937 to the botanists William Edwyn Isaac and Frances Margaret Leighton and grew up with a sister and twin brother . He attended Rondebosch B. High School and studied at the University of Cape Town , where he received a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts . In 1959 he received a Rhodes Scholarship and was able to study at the University of Oxford . After graduating there in 1962, he emigrated to Australia in 1963 with his wife, whom he had married shortly before, and taught there as a lecturer at the University of Melbourne European Modern Times . In 1971 he moved to La Trobe University , where he taught until 1999, first as a senior lecturer , then from 1978 as a reader , and finally as a professor .

In 1975 he was visiting professor at Johns Hopkins University . From 1998 to 1999 he was James Pinckney Harrison Professor of History at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg , Virginia . He later returned to the College of William and Mary and was there from August 2002 to December 2005, and again from August to December 2006, Visiting Distinguished Professor of History and Research Associate at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation .

For his book The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790 , he received the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for History and the National Historical Society Book Prize .

Rhys Isaac had been married since 1963. The marriage resulted in two daughters. His twin brother was the South African archaeologist , anthropologist and paleoanthropologist Glynn Isaac , who last taught as a professor of anthropology at Harvard University .

Publications (selection)

  • The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790 (1982)
  • Worlds of Experience: Communities in Colonial Virginia (1987)
  • Landon Carter's Uneasy Kingdom (2005)

Web links

literature

  • Richard Waterhouse: Rhys Isaac: November 20, 1937 - October 6, 2010 in Australasian Journal of American Studies , Volume 29, No. 2 (December 2010), pp. 124-125

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Heinz Dietrich Fischer, Erika J. Fischer: Complete Biographical Encyclopedia of Pulitzer Prize Winners, 1917-2000: Journalists, Writers and Composers on Their Ways to the Coveted Awards (2002, Verlag Walter de Gruyter )
  2. ^ A b Rhys Isaac: Glynn Isaac and the Search for Human Origins in Africa: Inaugural Glynn Isaac Memorial Lecture, April 21, 1993 (1995)
  3. ^ Former history professor Rhys Isaac dead at 72 , October 7, 2010, website of the College of William and Mary
  4. ↑ Prize-Winning Books ( Memento of the original from December 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Website of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / oieahc.wm.edu
personal data
SURNAME Isaac, Rhys
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Isaac, Rhys Llywelyn (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Cape Town , South African Union
DATE OF DEATH October 6, 2010
Place of death Blairgowrie , Victoria