Tristram Hunt
Tristram Hunt (born May 31, 1974 in Cambridge ) is a British historian , museum director and ex-politician ( Labor Party ).
Life
Tristram Hunt is a son of the meteorologist Julian Hunt . He attended University College School in London . He studied history at Trinity College, Cambridge , at the University of Chicago and was an Associate Fellow at King's College (Cambridge) . In 2000 he received his PhD from Cambridge. In Cambridge he was a member of the Footlights student theater .
As a historian, he presented historical subjects in productions for the BBC , both on television and on the radio.
Hunt has been a member of the Labor Party since his youth . He has accompanied various candidates in their election campaigns since 1997 and applied unsuccessfully for a candidacy in 2007 and 2009. He won the Stoke-on-Trent constituency seat in 2010 and was re-elected in 2015. Hunt became Shadow Secretary of State for Education in 2013 . In 2015 he was one of the candidates for the successor to party leader Ed Miliband , instead of him Jeremy Corbyn became opposition leader, whose policies he subsequently heavily criticized.
As an author, he joined a. with a highly acclaimed biography about Friedrich Engels , which he published in 2009.
Hunt was appointed director of the Victoria and Albert Museum in 2017 , so he stepped down from parliament. He officially took office on February 20, 2017.
Fonts (selection)
- The English Civil War: At First Hand . London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2002 ISBN 029782953X
- Building Jerusalem . London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004 ISBN 0297607677
- Robert Tressell : The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists . Introduction by Tristram Hunt. Penguin Modern Classics, 2004 ISBN 0141187697
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The Frock-Coated Communist: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels . London: Penguin, 2009, ISBN 0713998520
- Friedrich Engels. The man who invented Marxism. Translation by Klaus-Dieter Schmidt. Berlin: Propylaea, 2012
- Ten Cities That Made an Empire . London: Penguin Books, 2014
Web links
- Literature by and about Tristram Hunt in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Tristram Hunt in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Tristram Hunt on the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Tristram Hunt , website
- Tristram Hunt , at parliament.uk
- Heather Stewart: Tristram Hunt to quit as MP to become V&A director , report, in: The Guardian , January 13, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ GT: Instead of curators . Message, in: FAZ , January 14, 2017, p. 11
- ^ Tristram Hunt stands down as Labor MP , independent.co.uk, accessed February 17, 2017
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hunt, Tristram |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British historian, museum director and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 31, 1974 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cambridge |