Eric Hobsbawm

Known For

Writing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1917-06-09

Deathday

2012-10-01 (95 years old)

Birth Place

Alexandria, Egypt

Children

Joss Bennathan, Julia Hobsbawm, Andy Hobsbawm

Father

Leopold Percy Hobsbaum

Mother

Nelly Hobsbaum

Citizenships

United Kingdom

Residences

Vienna · Villa Seutter, Austria, London, United Kingdom, Berlin, Germany

Awards

Companion of Honour, Wolfson History Prize, Lionel Gelber Prize, Deutscher Memorial Prize, Fellow of the British Academy, Medlicott Medal, Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding, Ernst Bloch Award, Bochum Historian Prize, Balzan Prize, honorary doctor of the University of Vienna, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, honorary doctor of the University of Girona, honorary doctor of the Charles University of Prague, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, honorary citizen of Vienna