Larry Siedentop
Larry Siedentop (academic, philosopher) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | 24 May 1936 Chicago, Illinois, US | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | UK, US | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Alma mater | Hope College, Harvard University, Magdalen College (Oxford) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Religion | Calvinist | ||||||||||||||||||||||
US=British political scientist who studied under Isaiah Berlin. Attended the 2001 Bilderberg meeting.
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Sir Larry Alan Siedentop is an American-born British political philosopher with a special interest in 19th-century French liberalism.[1] He attended the 2001 Bilderberg meeting, where several of the topics dealt with the European Union.
Background
Born in Chicago, Siedentop attended Hope College, a liberal arts college in Michigan affiliated with the Reformed Church in America, and Harvard University, where he received his Master of Arts degree. He then received, as a Marshall Scholar, a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Oxford for a thesis on the thought of Joseph de Maistre and Maine de Biran, written at Magdalen College, Oxford, under the supervision of Sir Isaiah Berlin.
Career
From 1965 to 1968, Siedentop was a Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford, but he spent most of his academic career as a Fellow of Keble College, Oxford, and a University Lecturer. After retiring from Oxford, Siedentop was a visiting fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in Wassenaar, Queen Victoria Eugenia Professor at the Complutense University of Madrid and a visiting fellow in Philosophy and Public Affairs at the University of St Andrews.
Event Participated in
Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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Bilderberg/2001 | 24 May 2001 | 27 May 2001 | Sweden Stenungsund | The 49th Bilderberg, in Sweden. Reported on the WWW. |