Robert Choate Darnton was born on May 10,1939 and is an American cultural historian and academic librarian who specializes in 18th-century France.
11 Facts About Robert Darnton
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Robert Darnton was director of the Harvard University Library from 2007 to 2016.
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Robert Darnton graduated from Phillips Academy in 1957 and Harvard University in 1960, attended Oxford University on a Rhodes scholarship, and earned a PhD in history from Oxford in 1964, where he studied with Richard Cobb, among others.
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Robert Darnton worked as reporter at The New York Times from 1964 to 1965.
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Robert Darnton was a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows from 1965 to 1968.
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Robert Darnton 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.
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Robert Darnton served as president of the American Historical Association in 1999, where he founded the Gutenberg-e Program, sponsored by Mellon Foundation.
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Robert Darnton 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.
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Robert Darnton is a pioneer in the field of the history of the book, and has written about electronic publishing.
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Robert Darnton was later elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1980 and the American Philosophical Society in 1989.
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Robert Darnton's brother is the retired New York Times editor and author John Darnton, and his father was the war correspondent Byron Darnton.