Key facts
- Born
- Hayden V. White , ( 1928-07-12 ) July 12, 1928, Martin, Tennessee , US
- Died
- March 5, 2018 (2018-03-05) (aged 89), Santa Cruz, California , US
- Alma mater
- University of Michigan
- Influences
- Aristotle Max Weber Jean-Paul Sartre Maurice Merleau-Ponty Roland Barthes William J. Bossenbrook Erich Auerbach Northrop Frye Moses Maimonides
- Discipline
- History
- Institutions
- University of California, Santa Cruz , Stanford University , University of California, Los Angeles , Wesleyan University , University of Rochester , Wayne State University
- Doctoral students
- Nancy Struever
- Notable students
- Lawrence Grossberg
- Main interests
- Metahistory
- Notable works
- Metahistory (1973)
- Notable ideas
- Historiophoty metahistorical trope
- Influenced
- Sharon Traweek
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Hayden
- Family name
- White
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Martin
- Place of death
- Santa Cruz
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- Wayne State University
- Employer
- Wesleyan University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Notable work
- Metahistory
- Field of work
- literary criticism
- Image
- ಹೇಡನ್ ವೈಟ್.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1928-07-12
- member of
- American Philosophical Society
- date of death
- 2018-03-05
- name in native language
- Hayden White
- professorship
- professor
- Commons category
- Hayden V. White
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Encyclopedic overview
Hayden V. White Hayden V. White (July 12, 1928 – March 5, 2018) was an American historian in the tradition of literary criticism. He wrote Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe in 1973.
Career
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