J. G. A. Pocock | |
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| Born | John Greville Agard Pocock 7 March 1924 London, England |
| Died | 12 December 2023 (aged 99) Baltimore, Maryland, US |
| Nationality | New Zealand |
| Spouse |
Felicity Willis-Fleming
(m. 1958; died 2014) |
| Children | 2 |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater |
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| Doctoral advisor | Sir Herbert Butterfield |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | History |
| School or tradition | Cambridge School |
| Institutions | |
| Notable works | The Machiavellian Moment (1975) Barbarism and Religion (1999–2015) |
John Greville Agard Pocock ONZM (/ˈpoʊkɒk/; 7 March 1924 – 12 December 2023) was a New Zealand historian of political thought. He was especially known for his studies of republicanism in the early modern period (mostly in Europe, Britain, and America), his work on the history of English common law, his treatment of Edward Gibbon and other Enlightenment historians, and, in historical method, for his contributions to the history of political discourse.
Born in England, Pocock spent most of his early life in New Zealand. He moved to the United States in 1966. He taught at Washington University in St. Louis and from 1975 to 2011 at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. He was a member of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.[1][2]