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Alfred Cobban
Alfred Cobban (1901-1968) was an English historian and professor of French history at University College, London, who along with prominent French historian François Furet advocated...view moreAlfred Cobban (1901-1968) was an English historian and professor of French history at University College, London, who along with prominent French historian François Furet advocated a Revisionist view of the French Revolution.
Born on May 24, 1901 in London, Cobban was educated at Latymer Upper School and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Before his professorship at University College, London, he was a lecturer in history at King’s College in Newcastle-on-Tyne. He held a Rockefeller Fellowship for research in France and was a visiting professor at the University of Chicago and Harvard University.
An editor of History magazine, Cobban also published articles in the English Historical Review, the Political Science Quarterly, International Affairs and other historical and political journals.
He also published numerous historical books, including: Burke and the Revolt Against the Eighteenth Century (1929), Rousseau and the Modern State (1934), Historians and the Causes of the French Revolution (1946), The Debate on the French Revolution, 1789-1800 (1950), the three-volume A History of Modern France (1957-1965), The Social Interpretation of the French Revolution (1964), Aspects of the French Revolution (1968) and The Eighteenth Century: Europe in the Age of Enlightenment (1969).
Cobban died in London on April 1, 1968, aged 66.view less
Books by Alfred Cobban
In Search of Humanity: The Role of the Enlightenment in Modern History