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Number 13, September 1995

Elizabeth Eisenstein to Deliver Jantz Lecture

Dr. Elizabeth Eisenstein, Professor Emerita at the University of Michigan, will deliver the fifth Harold Jantz Memorial Lecture on Saturday, November 4 in conjunction with the annual Friends of the Library fall events.

Professor Eisenstein's research, particularly her book The Printing Press as an Agent of Change (Cambridge, 1979), has been instrumental in creating a new understanding of the importance of printing in cultural history. Her work has also helped move printing history into the mainstream of historical study.

Professor Eisenstein is the author of four books and numerous scholarly articles. Her most recent book is Grub Street Abroad: Aspects of the Eighteenth Century French Cosmopolitan Press (Oxford, 1992). After receiving the A.B. from Vassar College and the M.A. and Ph.D. from Radcliffe College, she taught at the American University in Washington, D.C. from 1959 to 1974. She was Alice Freeman Palmer Professor of History at the University of Michigan from 1975 until 1988.

Professor Eisenstein is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Rockefeller and Guggen-heim Foundations.

The Jantz Lecture, responsibility for which is shared on an annual rotating basis by the Library, the German section of the German-Russian Department, and the Allen Memorial Art Museum, honors Harold Jantz '29, a distinguished scholar of German and comparative literature and a noted book and art collector.

The title of Professor Eisenstein's lecture is: "Printing as Divine Art: Celebrating Western Technology in the Age of the Hand Press."

Dr. Elizabeth Eisenstein, Professor Emerita at the University of Michigan, will deliver the fifth Harold Jantz Memorial Lecture on Saturday, November 4 in conjunction with the annual Friends of the Library fall events. Professor Eisenstein's research, particularly her book The Printing Press as an Agent of Change (Cambridge, 1979), has been instrumental in creating a new understanding of the importance of printing in cultural history. Her work has also helped move printing history into the mainstream of historical study. Professor Eisenstein is the author of four books and numerous scholarly articles. Her most recent book is Grub Street Abroad: Aspects of the Eighteenth Century French Cosmopolitan Press (Oxford, 1992). After receiving the A.B. from Vassar College and the M.A. and Ph.D. from Radcliffe College, she taught at the American University in Washington, D.C. from 1959 to 1974. She was Alice Freeman Palmer Professor of History at the University of Michigan from 1975 until 1988.
Professor Eisenstein is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Rockefeller and Guggen-heim Foundations. The Jantz Lecture, responsibility for which is shared on an annual rotating basis by the Library, the German section of the German-Russian Department, and the Allen Memorial Art Museum, honors Harold Jantz '29, a distinguished scholar of German and comparative literature and a noted book and art collector. The title of Professor Eisenstein's lecture is: "Printing as Divine Art: Celebrating Western Technology in the Age of the Hand Press."

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