Gabriel Jackson (Hispanist)

Gabriel Jackson
Gabriel Jackson
Gabriel Jackson
Born(1921-03-10)March 10, 1921
Mount Vernon, New York, U.S.
DiedNovember 3, 2019(2019-11-03) (aged 98)
Ashland, Oregon, U.S.
OccupationAmerican Hispanist

Gabriel Jackson (March 10, 1921 – November 3, 2019)[1] was an American Hispanist, historian and journalist. He was born in Mount Vernon, New York, in 1921.[2] After his retirement he lived in Barcelona, Spain.

A victim of McCarthyism,[3] he studied at Harvard and Stanford before attaining his doctorate at Université de Toulouse. A Fulbright scholar (1960–1961),[4] he obtained his professorship in 1965 and was Professor Emeritus at the University of California, San Diego.

A disciple of both Jaume Vicens i Vives and the prominent French historian Pierre Vilar, Jackson was a regular collaborator of the Spanish daily El País for many years. In 1966 he was awarded the American Historical Association's Herbert Baxter Adams Prize,[5] and in 2002, Spain's prestigious Nebrija Prize from the University of Salamanca.[4]

  1. ^ "Muere el historiador e hispanista Gabriel Jackson, a los 98 años" (in Spanish). 6 November 2019. Retrieved 6 November 2019.
  2. ^ Cline, H. F.; Conference on Latin American History (1966). Historians of Latin America in the United States, 1965: biobibliographies of 680 specialists. Published for the Conference on Latin American History [by] Duke University Press. ISBN 9780822300366. Retrieved 2015-09-10.
  3. ^ Popkin, J. D. (2005). History, Historians, and Autobiography. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226675435. Retrieved 2015-09-10.
  4. ^ a b "Curso académico 2002-2003 | Fulbright Program in Spain - official Web site". Archived from the original on 2007-02-22. Retrieved 2015-09-14.
  5. ^ "Herbert Baxter Adams Prize". American Historical Association. 1966. Retrieved 2009-02-15.