John Elliott
Historian, Author
1930 –
Who is John Elliott?
Sir John Huxtable Elliott, FBA, who normally publishes as J. H. Elliott, is an eminent historian, Regius Professor Emeritus in the University of Oxford and Honorary Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford and Trinity College, Cambridge.
Born in Reading, Berkshire, Elliott was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was a lecturer in History at Cambridge University from 1957 to 1967, and was subsequently Professor of History at King's College, London between 1968 and 1973. In 1972 he was elected to the Fellowship of the British Academy. Elliott was Professor in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey from 1973 to 1990, and was Regius Professor of Modern History, Oxford between 1990 and 1997. He is an Honorary Professor of History at the University of Warwick and an Hon DLitt, and a Fellow of the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford, of whose Founding Council he was also a member.
An eminent Hispanist, he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Award in 1996 for his contributions to the Social Sciences.
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- Born
- Jun 23, 1930
Reading - Also known as
- John H. Elliott
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Education
- Trinity College, Cambridge
- Eton College
- Employment
- Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge
(1954 - ) - Head of History Department, King's College London
(1968 - ) - Professor of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study
(1973 - ) - Regius Professor of History, University of Oxford
(1990 - 1997)
- Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge
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on July 23, 2013
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