Timothy Garton Ash

Timothy Garton Ash, CMG (born 12 July 1955) is a British historian, author and commentator. He is Professor of European Studies at Oxford University. Much of his work has been concerned with the late modern and contemporary history of Central and Eastern Europe. He has written about the Communist dictatorships of that region, their experience with the secret police, the Revolutions of 1989 and the transformation of the former Eastern Bloc states into member states of the European Union. He has examined the role of Europe and the challenge of combining freedom and diversity—especially in relation to free speech.

Education [edit]

Pavel Žáček, Timothy Garton Ash and Kristian Gerner (Tallinn, 2012)

In the 1980s, Garton Ash was Foreign Editor of The Spectator and a columnist for The Independent. He became a Fellow at St Antony's College in 1989, a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution^[1] in 2000, and Professor of European Studies at the University of Oxford^[2] in 2004. He has written a weekly column in The Guardian since 2004 and is a long-time contributor to the New York Review of Books.^[3] His column is also translated in the Turkish daily Radikal and in the Spanish daily El País.,^[4] as well as other papers.

He and his wife Danuta live predominantly in Oxford, although also in Stanford.^[5] They have two sons.^[5]

Und Willst Du Nicht Mein Bruder Sein...Die DDR Heute (Rowohlt, 1981) ISBN 3-499-33015-6
The Polish Revolution: Solidarity, 1980–82 (Scribner, 1984) ISBN 0-684-18114-2
The Uses of Adversity: Essays on the Fate of Central Europe (Random House, 1989) ISBN 0-394-57573-3
The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of 1989 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin, and Prague (Random House, 1990) ISBN 0-394-58884-3
In Europe's Name: Germany and the Divided Continent (Random House, 1993) ISBN 0-394-55711-5
The File: A Personal History (Random House, 1997) ISBN 0-679-45574-4
History of the Present: Essays, Sketches, and Dispatches from Europe in the 1990s (Allen Lane, 1999) ISBN 0-7139-9323-5
Free World: America, Europe, and the Surprising Future of the West (Random House, 2004) ISBN 1-4000-6219-5
Facts are Subversive: Political Writing from a Decade without a Name (Atlantic Books, 2009) ISBN 1-84887-089-2

^ "Fellows: Timothy Garton Ash". Hoover Institution. Retrieved 12 November 2011.
^ "Governing Body Fellows: Professor Timothy Garton Ash". St. Anthony's College. Retrieved 12 November 2011.
^ "Timothy Garton Ash". The New York Review of Books. Retrieved 12 November 2011.
^ 5 Radikal.com.tr translations
^ ^a ^b "Biography". timothygartonash.com. Retrieved 12 November 2011.
^ "Eredoctoraten voor Maria Nowak, Timothy Garton Ash en Claudio Magris". Dagkrant Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (in Dutch). 22 December 2010. Retrieved 12 November 2011.

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Name	Garton Ash, Timothy
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Short description	British historian and author
Date of birth	12 July 1955
Place of birth	London
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