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{{Short description|American historian member of the Romanian Academy}}

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Schenectady, New York>Schenectady, New York, United States202014|2}} Urbana, Illinois>Urbana, Illinois, United States| nationality =| education = | alma_mater = Union CollegeHarvard University| thesis_title = | thesis_url = | thesis_year = 1964| school_tradition = | doctoral_advisor = Robert Lee Wolff| academic_advisors = | influences = | era = | discipline = History, mostly Romanian history| work_institutions = Wake Forest UniversityRice UniversityUniversity of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign| awards = National Order of Merit (Romania)| signature = | footnotes = history.illinois.edu/directory/profile/khitchin}}}}Keith Arnold Hitchins (April 2, 1931 – November 1, 2020) was an American historian and a professor of Eastern European history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, specializing in Romania and its history.NEWS,www.news-gazette.com/obituaries/keith-arnold-hitchins/article_e99facf8-26d6-11eb-a153-5cb9017bdf47.html, Keith Arnold Hitchins, The News-Gazette (Champaign–Urbana), The News-Gazette, 15 November 2020, He was born in Schenectady, New York.NEWS,www.historia.ro/sectiune/actualitate/articol/a-murit-istoricul-american-keith-hitchins-unul-dintre-cei-mai-buni-specialisti-straini-in-istoria-romaniei, A murit istoricul american Keith Hitchins, unul dintre cei mai buni specialiÈ™ti străini în istoria României, Historia, 2 November 2020, ro, NEWS,adevarul.ro/news/eveniment/a-murit-profesorul-american-keith-hitchins-venit-romania-1961-fost-urmarit-securitate-revolutie-1_5fa0f2765163ec42717931de/index.html, A murit profesorul american Keith Hitchins, care a venit în România din 1961. A fost urmărit de Securitate până la RevoluÈ›ie, Mariana, Iancu, Adevărul, 3 November 2020, ro, After graduating from Union College, he went to Harvard University, earning a Ph.D. in history in 1964 under the direction of Robert Lee Wolff. After teaching for seven years at Wake Forest University and then for a short period at Rice University, he joined the faculty at the University of Illinois, where he spent the rest of his academic career.Hitchins wrote or edited more than 20 books, most related to Romania. An honorary member of the Romanian Academy since 1991, he was awarded the National Order of Merit by Romanian President Klaus Iohannis.NEWS,adevarul.ro/news/eveniment/profesorul-american-keith-hitchins-decorat-klaus-iohannis-ordinul-national-pentru-merit-distinctia-fost-inmanata-ambasadorul-george-maior-1_590773055ab6550cb8b626e3/index.html, Profesorul american Keith Hitchins, decorat de Klaus Iohannis cu Ordinul NaÈ›ional “Pentru Merit”. DistincÈ›ia a fost înmânată de ambasadorul George Maior, Ionel, Stoica, Adevărul, 1 May 2017, ro, Hitchins died on November 1, 2020, at age 89, in the Carle Foundation Hospital in Urbana, Illinois. After his death, Romanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Bogdan Aurescu wrote on Twitter:__NOTOC__

Publications

• JOURNAL, December 1964, Samuel Clain and the Rumanian Enlightenment in Transylvania,www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S003767790013058X/type/journal_article, Slavic Review, en, 23, 4, 660–675, 10.2307/2492203, 2492203, Hitchins, Keith, 155577846,
• BOOK, The Rumanian national movement in Transylvania, 1780–1849, 1969, Harvard University Press, 0-19-626566-5, Cambridge, MA, 52045,
• BOOK, Orthodoxy and nationality: Andreiu Șaguna and the Rumanians of Transylvania, 1846–1873, 1977, Harvard University Press, 0-674-64491-3, Cambridge, MA, 2523561,
• BOOK, Rumania, 1866–1947, 1994, Oxford University Press, Clarendon Press, 978-0-19-158615-6, Oxford, 44961723,
• BOOK, The Romanians, 1774–1866, 1996, Oxford University Press, Clarendon Press, 0-19-820591-0, Oxford, 33009873,
• BOOK, A concise history of Romania, 978-0-521-87238-6, Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press, 2014,www.cambridge.org/core/books/concise-history-of-romania/1F69320FF2C653434C4E894E2BF114C6, 858081302, 10.1017/CBO9781139033954, Hitchins, Keith,

See also

• List of members of the Romanian Academy

References

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External links

• Obituary of Keith Hitchins
• {{Internet Archive author|sname=Keith Hitchins}}

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