Paul Anthony Ginsborg (18 July 1945 – 11 May 2022) was a British historian. In the 1980s, he was Professor at the University of Siena; from 1992, he was Professor of Contemporary European History at the University of Florence.[1]
Paul Ginsborg | |
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Born | Paul Anthony Ginsborg 18 July 1945 |
Died | 11 May 2022 | (aged 76)
Nationality | British |
Occupation | Historian |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Queens' College, Cambridge |
Academic work | |
Institutions | University of Cambridge University of Siena University of Florence |
Main interests | Contemporary European History |
Ginsborg was educated at St Paul's School, London, and Queens' College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a BA degree in History in 1966.[2] He was a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge.[3] With Pancho Pardi, he opposed Silvio Berlusconi's justice reforms, and campaigned alongside the girotondi movement.[4][5]
Ginsborg was of Jewish parentage. Along with Carlo Ginzburg, Marcello Flores, Sergio Luzzatto, Claudio Pavone, Enzo Traverso, et al., he signed a call in January 2002 against a law project, presented by Justice Minister Clemente Mastella, to specifically penalize Holocaust denial. They argued that Italy's legislation was sufficient to cope with such acts. The amended law project finally restricted itself to reinforcing sentences concerning hate speech.[6]