Theodore K. Rabb


Theodore K. Rabb was an American historian specializing in the early modern period of European history. He was a Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at Princeton University. He was one of the leading scholars in the field of 16th- and 17th-century Europe, focusing on varying topics such as climate history and food history.

Education

Rabb was born on March 5, 1937, in Teplice-Sanov, Czechoslovakia. He was raised in London. He studied at The Queen's College, Oxford and at Princeton University. His Ph.D. advisers were Elmore Harris Harbison and Frank Craven. Rabb was a professor of history at Stanford University, Northwestern University, and Harvard University before becoming an Associate Professor at Princeton University in 1967.

Career

He was a member of the Princeton faculty since 1967, teaching in both the History Department and in Humanistic Studies, an interdisciplinary program. He also directed Princeton’s Community College programs.
In 1970, he co-founded the Journal of Interdisciplinary History with Robert I. Rotberg. He was also an advisor for the 1993 television series Renaissance. He has chaired the National Council for History Education and the New Jersey Council for the Humanities.

Personal Life & Death

Books

With [Robert I. Rotberg]

In the ''[Journal of Interdisciplinary History]''