Norman Rufus Colin Cohn ( Eng. Norman Rufus Colin Cohn ; January 12, 1915, London , UK - July 31, 2007 , Cambridge , UK ) - British historian . Professor at the University of Sussex (1973-80, emérite ). Member of the British Academy (1978). The author of the monographs “The Inner Demons of Europe: An Investigation Inspired by the Great Witch Hunt "(Second edition of The Inner Demons of Europe: Demonization of Christians in the Medieval Christian World )," The Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarists and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages "And" The Blessing of Genocide: the myth of the worldwide conspiracy of the Jews and the "Protocols of the Zion of the Wise" ".
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Biography
Born in a family of a Jew and a Catholic. He studied linguistics at Christ Church College, Oxford University , where he graduated and where then he studied until 1939. He served in the army, in particular in intelligence. After demobilization in 1946-51, a French lecturer at the University of Glasgow . In 1951-1960 he was a professor of French in Ireland and Newcastle (the latter at the Royal College of Durham University , until 1963).
Since 1963, the director of the university center, in 1973-1980 - professor at the University of Sussex then emerit .
In 1986-1989, he was a visiting professor at King's College London.
He was elected a member of the British Academy on the recommendation of Isaiah Berlin .
Died of heart disease.
Interesting Facts
Robert Price notes that in the book Cosmos, Chaos and the World to Come: The Ancient Roots of Apocalyptic Faith (1993), Cohn suggests that Zoroaster was the first to introduce the idea of Doomsday (Religion) into religion [5 ] .
Family
- Wife (1941-2004) - historian Vera Markovna Broydo (1907-2004), daughter of the Mensheviks Mark Isaevich Broydo (1877-1937) and Eva Lvovna Gordon (1876-1941, executed).
- Son - rock critic and journalist Nick Cohn .
- The second wife (2004-2007) - Marina Voikhanskaya.
Scientific Papers
Monographs
- “ The Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages " (1957)
- " Warrant for Genocide: The Myth of the Jewish World Conspiracy and the" Protocols of the Elders of Zion ". (1966)
- Europe's Inner Demons: An Inquiry Inspired by the Great Witch-Hunt (1975) revised edition Europe's Inner Demons: The Demonization of Christians in Medieval Christendom (2000) [6]
- Cosmos, Chaos and the World to Come: The Ancient Roots of Apocalyptic Faith (1993, revised edition 2001) [7]
- Noah's Flood: The Genesis Story in Western Thought (1996) [8]
- translations into Russian
- Kon N. The Blessing on Genocide: The Myth of the Jewish World Conspiracy and the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion / Translated from English by S. S. Bychkov [approx. 1] ; general ed. and pos. T.A. Karasova and D.A. Chernyakhovsky . - M .: Progress , 1990. - 248 pp. - 25,000 copies.
Essays
- "The Horns of Moses", Commentary , vol. 3 (September 1958)
- "The Myth of the Jewish World Conspiracy: A Case Study in Collective Psychopathology", Commentary , vol. 41, no. 6 (June 1966) 35
- "Monsters of Chaos", Horizon: Magazine of the Arts , no. 4 (1972), 42
- "Permanence de Millénarismes", Le Contrat Social: revue historique et critique des faits et des idées , vol. 6, no. 5 (September 1962) 289
- "Adamo: the Distinguished Savage", The Twentieth Century , vol. 155 (January 1954), 263
- "The Saint-Simonian Extravaganza", The Twentieth Century , vol. 154 (July 1953), 354
- "The Magus of the North", The Twentieth Century , vol. 153 (January 1953), 283
- "The Saint-Simonian Portent", The Twentieth Century , vol. 152 (July 1952)
- "How Time Acquired a Consummation", in Apocalypse Theory and the End of the World (1995), 21–37 (compilation)
Notes
- ↑ Ya. G. Krotov claims that “after all, my translation, Bychkov in the 1980s, when I translated this book for samizdat, almost did not know English”
- ↑ 1 2 German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 120099675 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ 1 2 BNF identifier : Open Data Platform 2011.
- ↑ Babelio
- ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/27/world/europe/27cohn.html?ref
- ↑ Price RM Norman Cohn, Cosmos, Chaos and the World to Come: The Ancient Roots of Apocalyptic Faith. Yale University Press, 1993.
- ↑ Cohn, Norman. Europe's Inner Demons: The Demonization of Christians in Medieval Christendom : [ eng. ] . - University of Chicago Press, 1993-01-01. - ISBN 9780226113074 .
- ↑ Cohn, Norman. Cosmos, Chaos and the World to Come : [ eng. ] . - Yale University Press , 2001-08-11. - ISBN 0300177194 .
- ↑ Cohn, Norman. Noah's Flood: The Genesis Story in Western Thought : [ eng. ] . - Yale University Press , 1999-01-01. - ISBN 0300076487 .
Links
- Martin D. Norman Cohn, Historian, Dies at 92 // The New York Times , 08.27.2007
- Lay P. Norman Cohn // The Guardian , 08/09/2007
- Professor Norman Cohn // The Telegraph , 08/03/2007
- Professor Norman Cohn // Independent 09/28/2007