Hugh Trevor-Roper, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Hugh Trevor-Roper

British historian

Date of Birth: 15-Jan-1914

Place of Birth: Glanton, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 26-Jan-2003

Profession: politician, historian, university teacher, journalist, essayist, historian of the modern age

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Hugh Trevor-Roper

  • Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton, (15 January 1914 – 26 January 2003), was a British historian of early modern Britain and Nazi Germany.
  • He was Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford. Trevor-Roper was a polemicist and essayist on a range of historical topics, but particularly England in the 16th and 17th centuries and Nazi Germany.
  • In the view of John Kenyon, "some of [Trevor-Roper's] short essays have affected the way we think about the past more than other men's books".
  • This is echoed by Richard Davenport-Hines and Adam Sisman in the introduction to One Hundred Letters from Hugh Trevor-Roper (2014): "The bulk of his publications is formidable...
  • Some of his essays are of Victorian length.
  • All of them reduce large subjects to their essence.
  • Many of them [...] have lastingly transformed their fields." On the other hand, his biographer Adam Sisman also writes that "the mark of a great historian is that he writes great books, on the subject which he has made his own.
  • By this exacting standard Hugh failed."Trevor-Roper's most widely read and financially rewarding book was titled The Last Days of Hitler (1947).
  • It emerged from his assignment as a British intelligence officer in 1945 to discover what happened in the last days of Hitler's bunker.
  • From his interviews with a range of witnesses and study of surviving documents he demonstrated that Hitler was dead and had not escaped from Berlin.
  • He also showed that Hitler's dictatorship was not an efficient unified machine but a hodge-podge of overlapping rivalries.
  • Trevor-Roper's reputation was "severely damaged" in 1983 when he authenticated the Hitler Diaries shortly before they were shown to be forgeries.

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