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Anthony Grafton

December 18, 2023

Anthony Thomas Grafton (born May 21, 1950) is an American historian of early modern Europe and the Henry Putnam University Professor of History at Princeton University, where he is also the Director the Program in European Cultural Studies.[2][3] He is also a corresponding fellow of the British Academy and a recipient of the Balzan Prize. From January 2011 to January 2012, he served as the President of the American Historical Association.[4] From 2006 to 2020, Grafton was co-executive editor of the Journal of the History of Ideas.

Anthony Grafton
Grafton lecturing at the Gotha Research Center in 2010
Born
Anthony Thomas Grafton

(1950-05-21) May 21, 1950 (age 73)
New Haven, Connecticut, US
Spouse
Louise Erlich
​
(m. 1972)​
[1]
AwardsBalzan Prize (2002)
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Chicago
Academic work
DisciplineHistory
Sub-discipline
Institutions
Doctoral students
Main interestsHistory of books

Early life and education edit

Grafton was born on May 21, 1950, in New Haven, Connecticut. He was educated at Phillips Academy (Andover).

He attended the University of Chicago, from which he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history in 1971 and a Master of Arts degree in 1972. He made Phi Beta Kappa in 1970, with honors in history and in the college. After studying at University College, London, under ancient historian Arnaldo Momigliano, from 1973 to 1974, he earned his Doctor of Philosophy degree in history from the University of Chicago in 1975. He still retains links with the University of London's Warburg Institute.[5]

Grafton married Louise Erlich in 1972, and was married to her until her death in 2019. They had two children.[6]

Career edit

After a brief period teaching at Cornell's history department, he was appointed to a position at Princeton University in 1975, where he has subsequently remained. In 2006, he became co-editor of the Journal of the History of Ideas, together with Warren Breckman, Martin Burke, and Ann Moyer.

Works edit

Anthony Grafton is noted for his studies of the classical tradition from the Renaissance to the eighteenth century, and in the history of historical scholarship. His many books include a study of the scholarship and chronology of Renaissance scholar Joseph Scaliger (2 vols, 1983–1993), and, more recently, studies of Girolamo Cardano as an astrologer (1999) and Leon Battista Alberti (2000). In 1996, he delivered the Triennial E. A. Lowe Lectures at Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, speaking on Ancient History in Early Modern Europe.[7] Together with Lisa Jardine, he also co-wrote a revisionist account of the significance of Renaissance education (From Humanism to the Humanities, 1986) and on the marginalia of Gabriel Harvey.[8]

He also penned several essay collections, including Defenders of the Text (1991), which deals with the relations between scholarship and science in the early modern period, and, most recently, Worlds Made by Words. His most original and accessible book is The Footnote: A Curious History (1997; originally published in German in 1995 as Die tragischen Ursprünge der deutschen Fußnote), a case study of how the marginal footnote developed as a central and powerful tool in the hands of historians.

He also writes on a wide variety of topics for The New Republic, The American Scholar, and The New York Review of Books. He owns a bookwheel which he keeps at hand in his home.

Honors edit

Selected publications edit

Articles edit

  • Grafton, Anthony. "The History of Ideas: Precept and Practice, 1950–2000 and Beyond". Journal of the History of Ideas 67#1 (2006): 1–32. online

Books edit

  • Joseph Scaliger: A Study in the History of Classical Scholarship, Oxford-Warburg Studies (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983–1993).
  • with Lisa Jardine, From Humanism to the Humanities. Education and the Liberal Arts in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Europe (London: Duckworth, 1986). ISBN 978-0-7156-2100-4
  • Forgers and Critics. Creativity and Duplicity in Western Scholarship (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990).
  • Defenders of the Text: The Traditions of Scholarship in the Age of Science, 1450–1800 (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1991).
  • Rome Reborn: The Vatican Library and Renaissance Culture (editor) (Washington: Library of Congress, 1993) ISBN 0-300-05442-4
  • New Worlds, Ancient Texts: The Power of Tradition and the Shock of Discovery (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1995).
  • Commerce with the Classics: Ancient Books and Renaissance Readers (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997).
  • The Footnote: A Curious History (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1997).
  • Cardano's Cosmos : The Worlds and Works of a Renaissance Astrologer (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1999).
  • Leon Battista Alberti: Master Builder of the Italian Renaissance (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2000).
  • Bring Out Your Dead: The Past as Revelation (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2001).
  • What Was History?: The Art of History in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006).
  • with Megan Hale Williams, Christianity and the Transformation of the Book: Origen, Eusebius, and the Library of Caesarea (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2006).
  • Codex in Crisis (New York: The Crumpled Press, 2008). Video: Anthony Grafton: Codex in Crisis on YouTube, Authors@Google, February 12, 2009.
  • with Brian A. Curran, Pamela O. Long, and Benjamin Weiss, Obelisk: A History (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Burndy Library and MIT Press, 2009).
  • Worlds Made by Words (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2009). Review by Véronique Krings,
  • (with Joanna Weinberg), "I Have Always Loved the Holy Tongue": Isaac Casaubon, The Jews, and a Forgotten Chapter in Renaissance Scholarship (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2011).
  • Inky Fingers: The Making of Books in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2020).
  • with Maren Elisabeth Schwab, The Art of Discovery: Digging into the Past in Renaissance Europe (Princeton University Press, 2022).
  • Magus: The Art of Magic in the Renaissance from Faustus to Agrippa (Belknap Press, Harvard, 2023).

Essays edit

  • Anthony Grafton at The New York Review of Books

References edit

  1. ^ "Anthony Grafton Biography | AHA". www.historians.org.
  2. ^ "Anthony Grafton | Department of History". history.princeton.edu. Retrieved May 14, 2020.
  3. ^ "Anthony T. Grafton, Director — European Cultural Studies". ecs.princeton.edu. Retrieved June 15, 2020.
  4. ^ "History under Attack | Perspectives on History | AHA". www.historians.org.
  5. ^ "Anthony Grafton". The Department of History. The Trustees of Princeton University. Retrieved September 26, 2012.
  6. ^ "Obituary | Louise Erlich Grafton of Princeton, New Jersey".
  7. ^ . Gazette. Oxford University. October 5, 1995. Archived from the original on February 27, 2018. Retrieved January 23, 2017.
  8. ^ Jardine, Lisa; Grafton, Anthony (1990). ""Studied for Action": How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy". Past & Present. 129: 30–78. doi:10.1093/past/129.1.30.
  9. ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved March 21, 2022.
  10. ^ "Anthony Grafton". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved May 14, 2020.
  11. ^ "Professor Anthony Grafton". The British Academy. Retrieved July 27, 2020.
  12. ^ "Institute for History". Leiden University. September 7, 2023.
  13. ^ "Honorary degrees awarded at Encaenia | University of Oxford". www.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved July 27, 2020.

External links edit

  • Appearances on C-SPAN
  • Grafton's Publication List
  • YouTube videos:
  • "Codex in Crisis | Anthony Grafton | Talks at Google". YouTube. February 12, 2009.
  • "Defending the Humanities (Part 1 of 4)". David Feldman. November 15, 2010. ("Life on the Burning Deck: Defending the Humanities in the 21st Century", a lecture delivered at the University of New Hampshire on November 1, 2010)
  • "Defending the Humanities (Part 2 of 4)". YouTube. November 15, 2010.
  • "Defending the Humanities (Part 3 of 4)". YouTube. November 15, 2010.
  • "Defending the Humanities (Part 4 of 4)". YouTube. November 15, 2010.
  • "Anthony Grafton, President, 2011, Address delivered January 2012". American Historical Association. January 18, 2012.
  • "Anthony Grafton: Apocalypse in the Stacks". Green College UBC. April 2, 2013.
  • "Dirty Fingers: Renaissance Correctors and the Origins of Editing". NorthwesternU. March 8, 2013.
  • "Visions of Time in Early Modern Europe; March 6, 2007". Center for Advanced Study, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. November 11, 2013.
  • "Dr. Anthony Grafton: The Organization Professor". Collegium Institute. June 12, 2016.
  • "Encountering Antiquities in Renaissance Europe: Greek, Jews, and Humanists". YouTube. Stanford. July 27, 2017. (April 2, 2009, Lorenz Eitner Lecture delivered by Anthony Grafton)
  • ""Inky Fingers: The Making of Books in Early Modern Europe: - Professor Anthony Grafton". uchicagolibrary. November 13, 2020.
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Preceded by President of the American Historical Association
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2002
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December 18, 2023
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Anthony Thomas Grafton born May 21 1950 is an American historian of early modern Europe and the Henry Putnam University Professor of History at Princeton University where he is also the Director the Program in European Cultural Studies 2 3 He is also a corresponding fellow of the British Academy and a recipient of the Balzan Prize From January 2011 to January 2012 he served as the President of the American Historical Association 4 From 2006 to 2020 Grafton was co executive editor of the Journal of the History of Ideas Anthony GraftonGrafton lecturing at the Gotha Research Center in 2010BornAnthony Thomas Grafton 1950 05 21 May 21 1950 age 73 New Haven Connecticut USSpouseLouise Erlich m 1972 wbr 1 AwardsBalzan Prize 2002 Academic backgroundAlma materUniversity of ChicagoAcademic workDisciplineHistorySub disciplineEarly modern European historyhistoriographyhistory of scienceintellectual historyInstitutionsCornell UniversityPrinceton UniversityDoctoral studentsAnn M BlairBrad S GregoryCarol QuillenMain interestsHistory of books Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Career 3 Works 4 Honors 5 Selected publications 5 1 Articles 5 2 Books 5 3 Essays 6 References 7 External linksEarly life and education editGrafton was born on May 21 1950 in New Haven Connecticut He was educated at Phillips Academy Andover He attended the University of Chicago from which he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history in 1971 and a Master of Arts degree in 1972 He made Phi Beta Kappa in 1970 with honors in history and in the college After studying at University College London under ancient historian Arnaldo Momigliano from 1973 to 1974 he earned his Doctor of Philosophy degree in history from the University of Chicago in 1975 He still retains links with the University of London s Warburg Institute 5 Grafton married Louise Erlich in 1972 and was married to her until her death in 2019 They had two children 6 Career editAfter a brief period teaching at Cornell s history department he was appointed to a position at Princeton University in 1975 where he has subsequently remained In 2006 he became co editor of the Journal of the History of Ideas together with Warren Breckman Martin Burke and Ann Moyer Works editAnthony Grafton is noted for his studies of the classical tradition from the Renaissance to the eighteenth century and in the history of historical scholarship His many books include a study of the scholarship and chronology of Renaissance scholar Joseph Scaliger 2 vols 1983 1993 and more recently studies of Girolamo Cardano as an astrologer 1999 and Leon Battista Alberti 2000 In 1996 he delivered the Triennial E A Lowe Lectures at Corpus Christi College University of Oxford speaking on Ancient History in Early Modern Europe 7 Together with Lisa Jardine he also co wrote a revisionist account of the significance of Renaissance education From Humanism to the Humanities 1986 and on the marginalia of Gabriel Harvey 8 He also penned several essay collections including Defenders of the Text 1991 which deals with the relations between scholarship and science in the early modern period and most recently Worlds Made by Words His most original and accessible book is The Footnote A Curious History 1997 originally published in German in 1995 as Die tragischen Ursprunge der deutschen Fussnote a case study of how the marginal footnote developed as a central and powerful tool in the hands of historians He also writes on a wide variety of topics for The New Republic The American Scholar and The New York Review of Books He owns a bookwheel which he keeps at hand in his home Honors editLos Angeles Times Book Prize History 1993 Member of the American Philosophical Society elected 1993 9 Balzan Prize for History of the Humanities 2002 Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences elected 2002 10 Fellow of The British Academy elected 1997 11 Honorary degree from Leiden University 2006 12 Honorary degree from University of Oxford 2013 13 The Sigmund H Danziger Jr Memorial Lecture in the Humanities University of Chicago 2011 Rome Prize Pour le Merite Guggenheim Fellowship Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and HumanitiesSelected publications editArticles edit Grafton Anthony The History of Ideas Precept and Practice 1950 2000 and Beyond Journal of the History of Ideas 67 1 2006 1 32 onlineBooks edit Joseph Scaliger A Study in the History of Classical Scholarship Oxford Warburg Studies Oxford Oxford University Press 1983 1993 with Lisa Jardine From Humanism to the Humanities Education and the Liberal Arts in Fifteenth and Sixteenth Century Europe London Duckworth 1986 ISBN 978 0 7156 2100 4 Forgers and Critics Creativity and Duplicity in Western Scholarship Princeton Princeton University Press 1990 Defenders of the Text The Traditions of Scholarship in the Age of Science 1450 1800 Cambridge Massachusetts Harvard University Press 1991 Rome Reborn The Vatican Library and Renaissance Culture editor Washington Library of Congress 1993 ISBN 0 300 05442 4 New Worlds Ancient Texts The Power of Tradition and the Shock of Discovery Cambridge Massachusetts Harvard University Press 1995 Commerce with the Classics Ancient Books and Renaissance Readers Ann Arbor University of Michigan Press 1997 The Footnote A Curious History Cambridge Massachusetts Harvard University Press 1997 Cardano s Cosmos The Worlds and Works of a Renaissance Astrologer Cambridge Massachusetts Harvard University Press 1999 Leon Battista Alberti Master Builder of the Italian Renaissance Cambridge Massachusetts Harvard University Press 2000 Bring Out Your Dead The Past as Revelation Cambridge Massachusetts Harvard University Press 2001 What Was History The Art of History in Early Modern Europe Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2006 with Megan Hale Williams Christianity and the Transformation of the Book Origen Eusebius and the Library of Caesarea Cambridge Massachusetts Harvard University Press 2006 Codex in Crisis New York The Crumpled Press 2008 Video Anthony Grafton Codex in Crisis on YouTube Authors Google February 12 2009 with Brian A Curran Pamela O Long and Benjamin Weiss Obelisk A History Cambridge Massachusetts Burndy Library and MIT Press 2009 Worlds Made by Words Cambridge Massachusetts Harvard University Press 2009 Review by Veronique Krings Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2009 09 32 with Joanna Weinberg I Have Always Loved the Holy Tongue Isaac Casaubon The Jews and a Forgotten Chapter in Renaissance Scholarship Cambridge Massachusetts Harvard University Press 2011 Inky Fingers The Making of Books in Early Modern Europe Cambridge Massachusetts Harvard University Press 2020 with Maren Elisabeth Schwab The Art of Discovery Digging into the Past in Renaissance Europe Princeton University Press 2022 Magus The Art of Magic in the Renaissance from Faustus to Agrippa Belknap Press Harvard 2023 Essays edit Anthony Grafton at The New York Review of BooksReferences edit Anthony Grafton Biography AHA www historians org Anthony Grafton Department of History history princeton edu Retrieved May 14 2020 Anthony T Grafton Director European Cultural Studies ecs princeton edu Retrieved June 15 2020 History under Attack Perspectives on History AHA www historians org Anthony Grafton The Department of History The Trustees of Princeton University Retrieved September 26 2012 Obituary Louise Erlich Grafton of Princeton New Jersey Lectures Gazette Oxford University October 5 1995 Archived from the original on February 27 2018 Retrieved January 23 2017 Jardine Lisa Grafton Anthony 1990 Studied for Action How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy Past amp Present 129 30 78 doi 10 1093 past 129 1 30 APS Member History search amphilsoc org Retrieved March 21 2022 Anthony Grafton American Academy of Arts amp Sciences Retrieved May 14 2020 Professor Anthony Grafton The British Academy Retrieved July 27 2020 Institute for History Leiden University September 7 2023 Honorary degrees awarded at Encaenia University of Oxford www ox ac uk Retrieved July 27 2020 External links editAppearances on C SPAN Grafton s Publication List YouTube videos Codex in Crisis Anthony Grafton Talks at Google YouTube February 12 2009 Defending the Humanities Part 1 of 4 David Feldman November 15 2010 Life on the Burning Deck Defending the Humanities in the 21st Century a lecture delivered at the University of New Hampshire on November 1 2010 Defending the Humanities Part 2 of 4 YouTube November 15 2010 Defending the Humanities Part 3 of 4 YouTube November 15 2010 Defending the Humanities Part 4 of 4 YouTube November 15 2010 Anthony Grafton President 2011 Address delivered January 2012 American Historical Association January 18 2012 Anthony Grafton Apocalypse in the Stacks Green College UBC April 2 2013 Dirty Fingers Renaissance Correctors and the Origins of Editing NorthwesternU March 8 2013 Visions of Time in Early Modern Europe March 6 2007 Center for Advanced Study University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign November 11 2013 Dr Anthony Grafton The Organization Professor Collegium Institute June 12 2016 Encountering Antiquities in Renaissance Europe Greek Jews and Humanists YouTube Stanford July 27 2017 April 2 2009 Lorenz Eitner Lecture delivered by Anthony Grafton Inky Fingers The Making of Books in Early Modern Europe Professor Anthony Grafton uchicagolibrary November 13 2020 Academic officesPreceded by E A Lowe Lecturer1996 Succeeded byMichael ReevePreceded byPage DuBois Sigmund H Danziger Jr MemorialLecturer in the Humanities2010 2011 Succeeded byC Brian RoseProfessional and academic associationsPreceded byBarbara D Metcalf President of the American Historical Association2011 Succeeded byWilliam CrononAwardsPreceded byJames S Ackerman Balzan Prize2002 With Walter Jakob Gehring Xavier Le Pichon and Dominique Schnapper Succeeded byReinhard GenzelPreceded byJean Pierre Changeux Succeeded byEric HobsbawmPreceded byMarc Fumaroli Succeeded byWen Hsiung LiPreceded byClaude Lorius Succeeded bySerge Moscovici 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