Elizabeth Eisenstein
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American historian (1923–2016)
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Elizabeth Eisenstein was an American female historian and college teacher. She specialized in the history of printing, the history of books, and the history of France, including the French Revolution of 1789–1794. She wrote in English.
She was born in 1923 and died in 2016. Her work is recognized in the American Academy Arts Sciences collection.
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Elizabeth Eisenstein is indexed among the 9,870 entries in Vinony's American Academy of Arts & Sciences collection.
Vinony's link graph records 82 inbound references to Elizabeth Eisenstein, and connects out to Hugh Trevor-Roper, Asa Briggs and French Revolution.
It sits within the topics 1923 births, 2016 deaths and 21st-century American Jews.
Vinony links it to 15 Wikipedia language editions.
Authority record · VIAF
- Lifespan
- 1923–2016
- Nationality
- US
- Role / Field
- College teachers, Professeurs duniversite, Historycy, Historiennes, Historicky, Printing history
- Language
- eng
- Gender
- Female
Recorded by 28 libraries
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Elizabeth
- Family name
- Eisenstein
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- New York City
- Place of death
- Washington, D.C.
- Occupation
- historian
- Educated at
- Radcliffe College
- Employer
- University of Michigan
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Doctoral advisor
- Crane Brinton
- Field of work
- French Revolution
- Image
- Cfb 3.jpg
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- studied by
- French Revolution
- date of birth
- 1923-10-11
- date of death
- 2016-01-31
- Commons category
- Elizabeth Eisenstein
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