Norman Cohn

Biography

Born in a Jewish family with London, it makes its studies with the Gresham' S School and the college Christ Church of Oxford. It obtained its doctorate (Ph.D.) with the Université of Glasgow. Very early, it starts to teach and translates legends Siberia born of Anton Schefner which it publishes in 1936. During the Second world war, it joint rows of the British army.

In 1957, it is made known by the publication of Pursuit off the Millenium , a reference book on the history of the Millénarisme which will be republished and increased several times.

From 1960 to 1963, he is French professor to the Université of Durham; from 1966 to 1973, he is full professor at the University of Sussex and of 1974 to 1980, he is professor of history, holder of the Astor-Wolfson pulpit. He worked with a research project entitled " Past Future: In History off Expectation in the World" Western; in Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studiy in the humanities and Social Science (DENIED) (September 1st, 1975 - July 31st, 1976).

In 1967, it publishes an important work on the Protocoles of Wise of Sion which recalls the genesis of this false lampoon Antisémite and analyzes of them the Plagiat S of an ignored text of Maurice Jolly. Cohn took part in various denunciation campaigns of Mythe S and Canular S histories, or on the medieval Sorcellerie, in particular against Margaret Murray. It contributed to the foundation of the Center for Genocide Studies with the Université Concordia of Montreal (Quebec, Canada).

It held various academic places before its nomination at the University of Sussex in 1963. Its work approaches those of Leon Poliakov which worked with him in Colombus Center, an interdisciplinary research center on the Persécution S and the Extermination S. In 1978, it was elected member of the British Academy (British Academy).

Influence

In France, work of Cohn influenced in particular the Philosophe and historian of the ideas Pierre-André Taguieff which dedicated to him one of its last works: the Imaginary one of the world plot. Aspects of a modern myth (Paris, Thousand and One Nights, 2006).

Publications

Historical studies

The Pursuit off the Millennium , Fairlawn, N.J., Essential Books Inc., 1957; 2nd ED. The pursuit off the millennium: revolutionary messianism in medieval and Reformation Europe and its bearing one modern totalitarian movements , New York, To grip, “Grip Torchbooks”, 1961; transl., fanatics of the Apocalypse. Currents revolutionary millenarists of XIe in XVIe century, with a postface over the XXe century , translated from English by Simone Clémendot with the collaboration of Michel Fuchs and Paul Rosenberg, Paris, Julliard, “Files of the new letters”; 3rd ED. review and increased The pursuit off the millennium: revolutionary millenarians and mystical anarchists off the Middle Old , London, Maurice Temple Smith Ltd., 1970; London, Paladin, 1970; New York, Oxford University Near, 1970; rééd. increased review and, Fanatics of the Apocalypse: revolutionary and anarchistic millenarists mystical with the Middle Ages , translation re-examined by the author and supplemented by Maurice Angeno, Paris, Payot, “historical Library”, 1983; rééd. increased Oxford University Near, 1992; London, Pimlico, 1993; transl. Die Erwartung der Endzeit. Vom Ursprung der Apokalypse , Frankfurt, Insel, 1997

The world-view off has thirteenth-century Parisian intellectual: Jean De Meun and the Romance of the Rose , Inaugural reading off the Professor off French delivered in the chemistry reading theater one 11 October 1960, Newcastle upon the Tyne, University off Durham, 1961.

Warrant for genocide. The myth off the Jewish world-conspiracy and the Protocols off the elders off the Zion , London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1967; New York, To grip & Row; transl. History of a myth. Jewish “conspiracy” and the Protocols of Wise of Sion , translation of Leon Poliakov, Paris, Gallimard, 1967; rééd. “Folio History”, 1992; transl. El mito of los sabios of Sion , translation of Natalio Mazar, Buenos Aires, Leading Candelabro; Chico, CA, Scholars Close, “Brown Judaic studies”, 1981; transl. El mito of the conspiración judía mundial , Buenos Aires, Milá, “Raíces”, 1988; transl. Blagoslovenie Na genotsid: mif O vsemirnom zagovore evreev I “Protokolakh sionskikh mudretsov” , translation of S.S. Bychkova, obshchaia redaktsiia I posleslovie Karasovoi, T.A.I Cherniakhovskogo, D.A., Moscow, Progress, 1990 and Moscow, “Rudomino”, 2000; rééd. London, Serif, 1996; transl. Die Protokolle der Weisen von Zion: der Mythos DER jüdischen Weltverschwörung , translation of Karl Röhmer and bibliography with accompanying notes by Michael Hagemeister, Baden-Baden, Elster Verlag, 1998. ; rééd. Serif Publishing, 2005,2006.

Europe' S inner demons: year enquiry inspired by the great witch-hunt , London-Chatto, Heinemann for Sussex University Close, “Columbus Centers series, studies in the dynamics off persecution and extermination”, 1975; New York, BASIC Books; New York, New American Library, “Meridian book”, 1975 and 1977; transl. Démonolâtrie and sorcery with the Middle Ages: phantasms and realities , translation of Sylvie Laroche and Maurice Angeno, Paris, Payot, “historical Library”, 1982; rééd. review and increased: Europe' S inner demons: the demonization off Christians in medieval Christendom , London, Pimlico, 1993. ; rééd. review and increased Europe' S Inner Demons: The Demonization off Christians in Medieval Christendom , University Off Chicago Near, 2001

“Protocols and Dialogs”, in Maurice Jolly, Dialog with the hells between Machiavel and Montesquieu , followed by “Polemic around a plagiarism. One ignored, Maurice Jolly”, of Henri Rollin, Paris, Combined, 1987.

Cosmos, chaos, and the world to like: the ancient roots off apocalyptic faith , New Haven, Yale University Close, 1993. ; 2nd ED. New Haven-London, Yale University Near, 2001; transl. Cosmos, chaos and the world which comes , Paris, Allia, 2000.

Noah' S Flood: The Genesis Story in Western Thought , New Haven, Yale University Close, 1996.

Articles, nonexhaustive list

“The Saint-Simonian Carries”, in The Twentieth Century , vol. 152, July 1952.
“The Saint-Simonian Extravaganza”, in The Twentieth Century vol. 154, July 1953.
“The Magus off the North”, in The Twentieth Century , vol. 153, January 1953.
Adamo: the Distinguished Savage" , in The Twentieth Century vol. 155, January 1954.
“The Horns off Moses”, in Commentary , vol. September 3rd, th and th 1958.
“Permanence of Millénarismes”, in the Social Contract: historical and critical review of the facts and the ideas , vol. 6, No September 5th, th and th 1962.
“The Myth off the Jewish World Conspiracy: With Box Study in Collective Psychopathology”, in Commentary , vol. 41, No June 6th, th and th 1966.
“Monsters off Chaos”, in Horizon: Magazine off the Arts , No 4, 1972.
“How Time Acquired has Consummation”, in Apocalypse Theory and the End off the World , 1995, p. 21-37.

Translation

Anton Schlefner (1817-1879), Heldensagen DER minussinschen Tartaren , under the title Gold Khan. And other Siberian Legends , foreword of Arthur Waley, London, Secker & Warburg, 1936; rééd. 1946 (choice of 15 legends).

Participation in a film

Graham Townsley (realizer and scenario writer), Sorcery (original title The Witch hunt ), Co-scenario writer: ED Fields, type-setter: Ciaran Farrel, actors: Margaret Belling, Laurie Flynn, Domonic Hewiit and Al; present: Norman Cohn, Ronald Hutton, Margot Adler and Al, Evreux, Guild Editions Atlas, coll “divine Magic: The " World off the supernatural" ”, 1999,1 cases. video (VHS), 55 min, coul., (SECAM). Version doubled in French, Not fiction films, 1995.

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