Theodore Zeldin

Theodore Zeldin
Zeldin in 2012
Born
(1933-08-22) 22 August 1933
Spouse
(m. 1975)
AwardsWolfson History Prize
Academic background
EducationEnglish School Heliopolis
Aylesbury Grammar School
Alma materBirkbeck, University of London
Christ Church, Oxford
St Antony's College, Oxford
ThesisThe parliamentarians of the Second Empire in France (1957)
Academic work
DisciplineHistory
Sub-discipline
InstitutionsSt Antony's College, Oxford
Green Templeton College, Oxford
Doctoral studentsRobert Gildea

Theodore Zeldin CBE FBA FRSL (born 22 August 1933) is a British academic and current Associate Fellow of Green Templeton College, Oxford. He is the author of A History of French Passions, a quotidian history of the French people, as well as An Intimate History of Humanity. He is also a Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford, having previously been its dean for 13 years, and a Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Society of Literature.