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Robert Darnton was born on 10 May, 1939 in New York City, US, is an American historian. Discover Robert Darnton's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 84 years old?

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Occupation Historian, librarian
Age 84 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 10 May, 1939
Birthday 10 May
Birthplace New York City, US
Nationality United States

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1782

The title of his thesis was Trends in radical Propaganda on the eve of the French Revolution (1782–1788).

1939

Robert Choate Darnton (born May 10, 1939) is an American cultural historian and academic librarian who specializes in 18th-century France.

1957

He graduated from Phillips Academy in 1957 and Harvard University in 1960, attended Oxford University on a Rhodes scholarship, and earned a PhD (DPhil) in history from Oxford in 1964, where he studied with Richard Cobb, among others.

1964

He worked as reporter at The New York Times from 1964 to 1965.

1965

He was a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows from 1965 to 1968.

1968

Joining the Princeton University faculty in 1968, he was appointed Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of European History and was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 1982.

1979

His first major prize was the Leo Gershoy Award for The Business of Enlightenment in 1979.

1980

He was later elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1980 and the American Philosophical Society in 1989.

1987

He was president of the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies from 1987 to 1991, where he founded the East-West Seminar, now continued as the International Seminar for Early Career Scholars.

1994

Darnton was a trustee of the Oxford University Press from 1994 to 2007.

He is a trustee of the New York Public Library, where he designed and helped launch the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers.

1996

He has also received the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism for The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France (New York: W.W. Norton, 1996).

1999

He served as president of the American Historical Association in 1999, where he founded the Gutenberg-e Program, sponsored by Mellon Foundation.

In 1999, he was named a Chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur, an award given by the French government, in recognition of his work.

2004

In 2004 he was awarded the Gutenberg Prize of the International Gutenberg Society and the City of Mainz by the.

2005

In 2005, he received an award for distinguished achievement from the American Printing History Association.

2007

He was director of the Harvard University Library from 2007 to 2016.

Darnton was born in New York City.

On July 1, 2007, he transferred to emeritus status at Princeton, and was appointed Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and director of the Harvard University Library, succeeding Sidney Verba.

As University Librarian, he co-founded the Digital Public Library of America and he designed the digital archive Colonial North America: Worlds of Change.

2012

On February 13, 2012, he was awarded the National Humanities Medal 2011 by President Barack Obama, for his determination to make knowledge accessible to everyone.

2013

In 2013, he was awarded the Prix mondial Cino Del Duca lifetime achievement award by the Institut de France.

His brother is the retired New York Times editor and author John Darnton, and his father was the war correspondent Byron Darnton.

2016

In January 2016, Ann Blair succeeded him as the Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor.

Darnton is a pioneer in the field of the history of the book, and has written about electronic publishing.