Holger Hoock
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Dr Holger Hoock is a historian of Britain and the British Empire in the 18th and 19th centuries. Holger Hoock (b. 1972) grew up near Heidelberg in Germany. He studied History, Politics, and Law in Freiburg, Germany, and at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and holds a Doctorate in Modern History from Oxford (2001). He taught at the Universities of Cambridge and Liverpool, where he also was the Founding Director of the Eighteenth-Century Worlds Research Centre. He currently serves as the Carroll J. Amundson Professor of British History at the University of Pittsburgh. His first book, "The King's Artists" was runner-up for the 2004 Whitfield Prize in British History. Holger received the Philip-Leverhulme-Prize for internationally recognized young researchers in History (2006), and has held numerous international fellowships, including at the Library of Congress, Corpus Christi College, Oxford,… Read more This biography was provided by the author or their representative.
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