Edward Carl Thaden (April 24, 1922 - July 9, 2008) was an American historian, bestselling author and university professor.
Life
Thaden was born in Seattle, Washington on April 24, 1922. He was married to Marianna Forster Thaden. He died on July 9, 2008, in Seattle, Washington, after having succumbed to prostate cancer. Marianna Thaden died in 2011. The Edward and Marianna Thaden Chair in Russian and East European Intellectual History at the University of Illinois Chicago College of Liberal Arts and Sciences was established in 2012.
Education
He majored in Slavic Studies at the University of Washington where he received his bachelor’s degree.
Career
He began his teaching career at the Penn State University in 1952.
He also served as a visiting professor at the University of Marburg (1965), University of Halle (1988), and the University of Helsinki (1990) in Finland.
Bibliography
He is the author of a number of notable books:
Russia since 1801: the making of a new society Russia and the Balkan Alliance of 1912 Conservative nationalism in nineteenth-century Russia Russia's western borderlands, 1710-1870 Russification in the Baltic Provinces and Finland Interpreting History: Collective Essays on Russia's Relations with Europe
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