Hanna Holborn Gray
| Hanna Holborn Gray | |
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| President of the University of Chicago | |
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In office 1978–1993 |
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| Preceded by | John T. Wilson |
| Succeeded by | Hugo F. Sonnenschein |
| 18th President of Yale University (Acting) | |
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In office 1977–1978 |
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| Preceded by | Kingman Brewster, Jr. |
| Succeeded by | A. Bartlett Giamatti |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
October 25, 1930 Heidelberg, Germany |
| Spouse(s) | Charles Montgomery Gray (1954–2011) |
| Parents |
Hajo Holborn Annemarie Bettmann |
| Alma mater | Bryn Mawr College, University of Oxford, Harvard University |
Hanna Holborn Gray (born October 25, 1930), is a historian of Renaissance and Reformation political thought and Professor of History Emerita at the University of Chicago. She served as Acting President of Yale University in 1977–78 and was then appointed President of the University of Chicago, where she served for fifteen years. At both schools, she was the first woman to hold their highest executive office.
Hanna Holborn was born in Heidelberg, Germany, the daughter of Hajo Holborn, a professor of European history at Yale who fled to America from Nazi Germany, and Annemarie Bettmann, a philologist. Her older brother, Frederick, became a White House aide and professor of foreign policy at Johns Hopkins' School of Advanced International Studies. She attended Sidwell Friends School in Washington D.C, then Bryn Mawr College in suburban Philadelphia, where she graduated in 1950. Holborn traveled to Oxford as a Fulbright Scholar. She met and married Charles Montgomery Gray in 1954 while both were graduate students at Harvard University, earned a Ph.D. from Harvard in 1957, and taught there, becoming an assistant professor in 1959.
She moved to Chicago when her husband was appointed to a position at the University of Chicago. She began teaching history there and earned tenure in 1964. From 1966 to 1970, she was co-editor of the Journal of Modern History with her husband.
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