Eric Hobsbawm Dead, British Marxist Historian Dies At 95

British Marxist Historian Eric Hobsbawn Dies At 95

Eminent historian Eric Hobsbawm has died at the age of 95.

His daughter Julia said on Monday that her father had died overnight at a London's Royal Free Hospital.

He had been suffering from pneumonia, AP reported.

Eric Hobsbawn died in London at the age of 95

He was raised in Vienna and Berlin and came to Britain in 1933 after his family fled the Nazis.

Hobsbawn was a member of the Communist party from 1936 until the party's collapse in 1989. In 1947 he became a lecturer at Birkbeck College, in London.

He is best known for his books History of the 20th Century, The Age of Extremes, and The Age of Revolution.

His final book, How To Change The World, was printed in 2011.

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