Gene Brucker, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Gene Brucker

American historian of the Renaissance and Florence

Date of Birth: 15-Oct-1924

Place of Birth: Cropsey, Illinois, Illinois, United States

Date of Death: 09-Jul-2017

Profession: university teacher, historian of the modern age

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Gene Brucker

  • Gene Adam Brucker (October 15, 1924 – July 9, 2017).
  • in Cropsey, Illinois) was an American historian and the Shepard Professor of History, Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley.
  • Brucker studied at Oxford and received his Ph.D.
  • from Princeton University in 1954.
  • He was immediately appointed to the faculty at Berkeley.
  • He received several academic awards, including the Rhodes Scholarship, Fulbright Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship, and the National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship.
  • In 1979, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Brucker has focused and written specifically on Florence during the Renaissance.
  • His research on Florentine history has pursued new insights into the period.
  • Among his works include "Renaissance Florence" (1983), "Florence: the Golden Age" (1998), and "Living on the Edge in Leonardo's Florence: Selected Essays."

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