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

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."