Elizabeth Eisenstein | |
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 Elizabeth Eisenstein in 1979 as the first resident scholar for the Center for the Book at the Library of Congress | |
| Born | October 11, 1923 |
| Died | January 31, 2016 (aged 92) |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Vassar College Radcliffe College |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Historian |
| Institutions | University of Michigan |
Elizabeth Lewisohn Eisenstein (October 11, 1923 – January 31, 2016) was an American historian of the French Revolution and early 19th-century France. She is well known for her work on the history of early printing, writing on the transition in media between the era of 'manuscript culture' and that of 'print culture', as well as the role of the printing press in effecting broad cultural change in Western civilization.