- Ragnhild Hatton
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name = Ragnhild Hatton
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birthdate = 10 January 1913
birthplace =Bergen, Norway
deathdate = 16 May 1995
deathplace =London, England
occupation =historian
nationality = Norwegian
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genre = European International History
subject = 17th and 18th Century
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influences =Mark A. Thomson andG. J. Renier
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website =Ragnhild Marie Hatton, (born in
Bergen, Norway on 10 January 1913 - died inLondon on 16 May 1995, was professor of International History at theLondon School of Economics . As the author of her obituary declared, she was "for a generation Britain's leading historian of 17th- and 18th century Europe...." [ [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19950525/ai_n13984561| Hamish Scott, "Obituary of Professor Ragnhild Hatton," "The Independent" 25 May 1995.] ]Early Life and Education
The daughter of Gustav Ingolf Hanssen and Marie Rikheim Hanssen, Ragnhild Hanssen was educated in a private school for girls in
Bergen, Norway and then in the Bergen Cathedral School. She entered theUniversity of Oslo , where she received her "candidata magisterii (Cand. Mag.)" degree in 1936. On 24 June 1936, she married Harry Hatton (died 1989), an English businessman, who had served in the Royal Navy as well as in merchant ships and later became a mathematics teacher. The couple had had two sons.Moving to London on her marriage, she matriculated as a part-time student at
University College, London , where she continued to work on the doctoral thesis that she had begun in Norway. Working withG. J. Renier andMark A. Thomson , she completed her Ph.D. degree in 1947 with her thesis on "Diplomatic relations between Great Britain and the Dutch Republic, 1714-1721."Academic career
While still a graduate student, she became a part-time teacher. She was appointed Assistant Lecturer at the London School of Economics in 1949 and rose to become Lecturer in 1950, and Reader in 1958. In 1968, she was named Professor of International History. She was appointed Professor Emeritus in 1981. She served as Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Political Science, 1974-1978, and Chairman of the History Department,
London School of Economics , 1978-1981.She served on the London Honours Board of Examiners in History, 1964-68, and was an external examiner in history for the
University of Nottingham , 1965-69, theUniversity of Edinburgh , 1965-70,Queens University, Belfast , 1972-73, and theUniversity of Warwick , 1975-77. She served as a member of Council of theRoyal Historical Society , 1979-1983.Honours
* Fellow,
Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities , 1954
* Honorary Foreign MemberAmerican Historical Association , 1979
* Honorary Corresponding Member, La Academia Panamanena de la Historia
* Riddar, First Class,Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav , 1983
* HonoraryDoctor of Humane Letters ,Ohio State University , 1985
* Commander of theOrder of the Polar Star , 1986
* Senior Fellow,British Academy , 1993
* Palmes AcadémiquesPublished Works
Books
* "Diplomatic relations between Great Britain and the Dutch Republic, 1714-1721". Published for The Anglo-Netherlands Society by East & West Ltd, 1950.
* "CaptainJames Jefferye ’s letters to the Secretary of state, Whitehall, from the Swedish army, 1707-1709". Edited by Ragnhild Hatton. "Historiska handlingar" vol. 35:1 (1954).
* "William III andLouis XIV : essays 1680-1720 by and forMark A. Thomson "; edited by Ragnhild Hatton andJ. S. Bromley ; with an introductory memoir byGeorge Clark . Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1968.
* "Charles XII of Sweden ." London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1968.
* "Europe in the age ofLouis XIV ". London: Thames and Hudson, 1969.
* "Studies in diplomatic history: essays in memory ofDavid Bayne Horn ", edited by Ragnhild Hatton andM. S. Anderson . Harlow: Longmans, 1970.
* "A history of European ideas", byErik Lund ,Mogens Pihl ,Johannes Sløk ; edited with a preface by Ragnhild Hatton; translated from the Danish byW. Glyn Jones . London: Hurst, 1971.
* "Louis XIV and his world". London: Thames and Hudson, 1972.
* "Charles XII ". London: Historical Association, 1974.
* "Louis XIV andabsolutism ", edited by Ragnhild Hatton. London: Macmillan, 1976.
* "Louis XIV and Europe", edited by Ragnhild Hatton. London: Macmillan, 1976.
* "George I: elector and king". London: Thames and Hudson, 1978.
* "The Anglo-Hanoverian connection, 1714-1760: The Creighton Trust Lecture 1982, delivered before the University of London on Monday 15 November 1982". London: University of London, 1982.
* "Karl XII av Sverige: [en biografi] ". översättning: Claes Gripenberg och John Rumenius. Köping: Lindfors, 1985.Major ContributionsIn addition to being a contributor to "The New Cambridge Modern History", volumes VI and VII, and to journals, including "European Studies Review", "Journal of Modern History", and "XVII Siecle", she contributed to the following works:
* K. Bourne and D. C. Watt, editors, "Studies in International History". Longmans, Green, 1967.
* J. C. Rule, editor, "Louis XIV and the Craft of Kingship", Ohio State University Press, 1970.
* Paul Fritz and David Williams, editors, "The Triumph of Culture: Eighteenth-Century Perspectives", A. M. Hakkert, 1972
* T. Hunczak, editor, "Russian Imperialism from Ivan the Great to the Revolution", New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1974.
* Francoise-Marie Arouet deVoltaire , "The History ofCharles XII , King of Sweden", translated by Antonia White with an introduction by Ragnhild Hatton. London: Folio, 1976.
*A. G. Dickens , editor, "The Courts of Europe: Politics, Patronage and Royalty, 1400-1800", London: Thames & Hudson, 1977.
* "Les Relations Franco-Autrichiennes sous Louis XIV", Saint-Cyr-Coetquidan, 1983.ources
* Andrew Lossky, "Ragnhild Marie Hatton" in "Studies in History and Politics/Etudes d'Histoire et de Politique", Special Issue: "Essays in European history in honour of Ragnhild Hatton," vol. IV (1985), pp. 13-17. This issue also contains a bibliography of Raghnild Hatton's principal published works.
* "Obituary", "The [London] Times", 24 May 1995, p. 19.
* John C. Rule, "Ragnhild Hatton," "Perspectives: Newsletter of the American Historical Association" (1995)
* Robert Oresko, G. C. Gibbs, and H. M. Scott, editors, "Royal and Republican Sovereignty in Early Modern Europe: Essays in Memory of Ragnhild Hatton". Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
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