Gabriel Jackson (hispanist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Gabriel Jackson (hispanist)

American Hispanist

Date of Birth: 10-Mar-1921

Place of Birth: Mount Vernon, New York, United States

Date of Death: 03-Nov-2019

Profession: historian, hispanist

Nationality: Spain, United States

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Gabriel Jackson (March 10, 1921 – November 3, 2019) was an American Hispanist, historian and journalist.
He was born in Mount Vernon, New York in 1921.
Since his retirement he lived in Barcelona, Spain. A victim of McCarthyism, he studied at Harvard and Stanford before attaining his doctorate at Université de Toulouse.
A Fulbright scholar (1960–1961), he obtained his professorship in 1965 and was Professor Emeritus at University of California, San Diego. A disciple of both Jaume Vicens i Vives and the prominent French historian Pierre Vilar, Jackson was a regular collaborator of the Spanish daily El País for many years.
In 1966 he was awarded the American Historical Association's Herbert Baxter Adams Prize, and in 2002, Spain's prestigious Nebrija Prize from the University of Salamanca.