Robert Darnton
lehrte von 1968 bis 2007 an der Princeton University; ab 2007 war er Carl H.
Pforzheimer-Professor und Bibliotheksleiter an der Harvard University; er hat zahlreiche Bücher geschrieben bzw. herausgegeben, u.a. The Business of Enlightenment: A Publishing History of the Encyclopédie (1979; ein früher Versuch, Buchgeschichte als Forschungsbereich zu etablieren) und The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Prerevolutionary France (1995; eine Untersuchung des illegalen Buchhandels) und "The Devil in the Holy Water, or The Art of Slander in France, 1650–1800" (2009).
Pforzheimer-Professor und Bibliotheksleiter an der Harvard University; er hat zahlreiche Bücher geschrieben bzw. herausgegeben, u.a. The Business of Enlightenment: A Publishing History of the Encyclopédie (1979; ein früher Versuch, Buchgeschichte als Forschungsbereich zu etablieren) und The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Prerevolutionary France (1995; eine Untersuchung des illegalen Buchhandels) und "The Devil in the Holy Water, or The Art of Slander in France, 1650–1800" (2009).
Robert Darnton taught at Princeton from 1968 until 2007, when he became Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the University Library at
Harvard. He has written and edited two dozen books, including The Business of Enlightenment: A Publishing History of the Encyclopédie (1979, an early attempt to develop the history of books as a field of study), and The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Prerevolutionary France (1995, a study of the underground book trade), and The Devil in the Holy Water, or The Art of Slander in France, 1650-1800 (2009).
Harvard. He has written and edited two dozen books, including The Business of Enlightenment: A Publishing History of the Encyclopédie (1979, an early attempt to develop the history of books as a field of study), and The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Prerevolutionary France (1995, a study of the underground book trade), and The Devil in the Holy Water, or The Art of Slander in France, 1650-1800 (2009).
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