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Robert Choate Darnton (born May 10, 1939) is an American cultural historian and academic librarian who specializes in 18th-century France. ==Life== Darnton was born in New York City. He graduated from Phillips Academy in 1957 and Harvard University in 1960, attended Oxford University on a Rhodes scholarship, and earned a Ph.D. (D. Phil.) in history from Oxford in 1964, where he studied with Richard Cobb, among others. He worked as reporter at ''The New York Times'' from 1964 to 1965. Joining the Princeton University faculty in 1968, he was appointed Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of European History and was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 1982. He served as President of the American Historical Association in 1999. On July 1, 2007, he transferred to emeritus status at Princeton, and was appointed Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and director of the Harvard University Library, succeeding Sidney Verba〔(Princeton's Robert Darnton To Succeed Verba as Harvard Library Director – 5/25/2007 – Library Journal )〕, and succeeded by Ann Blair〔http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2015/11/ann-blair-named-university-professor/?utm_source=SilverpopMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=11.24.2015%20(1)〕. In 1983 he delivered the Huizinga Lecture in Leiden, the Netherlands, under the title ''The Meaning of Mother Goose''. Darnton is a pioneer in the field of the history of the book. He is writing about electronic publishing. He is founder of the Gutenberg-e program, sponsored by Mellon Foundation. Darnton is a trustee of the New York Public Library.〔Taylor, Kate. "Amherst President is Expected to Be Named Chief of the New York Public Library," New York Times. October 6, 2010.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Robert Darnton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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