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NORMAN COHN.
Norman Cohn, a historian who influenced a generation of historians and social scientists with his insight that totalitarian ideologies of.!
Norman Cohn
British historian (1915–2007)
This article is about a British historian.
For film director and producer, see Norman Cohn (film producer). For the American saber fencer, see Norman Armitage.
Norman Rufus Colin CohnFBA (12 January 1915 – 31 July 2007) was a British academic, historian and writer who spent 14 years as a professorial fellow and as Astor-Wolfson Professor at the University of Sussex.
Life
Cohn was born in London, to a German Jewish father and a Catholic mother.[1] He was educated at Gresham's School[2] and Christ Church, Oxford.[2] According to the Italian scholar Lorenzo Ferrari, "Cohn grew up feeling 'a man between all worlds' with his German-Jewish surname, his mother's Catholic faith (although she never had him baptised), and his numerous German relatives".[3] He was a scholar and research student at Christ Church between 1933 and 1939, taking a first-class degree in Modern Languages in 1936 (French) and