Peter Burke (historian)
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16 August 1937
Peter Burke | |
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.jpg) Burke in 2024 | |
| Born | Ulick Peter Burke 16 August 1937 Stanmore, England |
| Spouse | Maria Lúcia Garcia Pallares-Burke |
| Academic background | |
| Education | St Ignatius College, Enfield |
| Alma mater | St John's College, Oxford St Antony's College, Oxford |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | History |
| Sub-discipline | |
| Institutions | University of Sussex Emmanuel College, Cambridge |
| Doctoral students | David Hopkin |
Ulick Peter Burke FBA FRHistS (born 16 August 1937) is a British polymath, historian and professor.[1]
Peter Burke was born to a Roman Catholic father and Jewish mother (who later converted to Roman Catholicism). He was educated at St Ignatius College, Enfield, a Jesuit school, before completing his undergraduate and doctoral studies at St John's College and St Antony's College, University of Oxford.[2]
Career
From 1962 to 1979, Burke was a member of the School of European Studies at University of Sussex, before moving to the University of Cambridge, where he holds the title of professor emeritus of cultural history and fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Burke is celebrated as a historian of the early modern era who emphasizes the relevance of social and cultural history to modern issues.
Burke is not only known for his work on the Modern Age but also for his research on cultural history across its entire spectrum. As a polyglot, he has managed on the one hand to incorporate information from a good part of Europe and has also achieved good diffusion of his books. They have been translated into more than thirty languages. In 1998, he was awarded the Erasmus Medal of the European Academy,[3] and he is an honorary doctorate from the Universities of Lund, Copenhagen and Bucharest.
Personal and family
Burke is married to the Brazilian historian Maria Lúcia Garcia Pallares-Burke who is the author of two books (in one of which she collaborated with her husband).
