Elizabeth Lewisohn Eisenstein

Elizabeth Eisenstein died on January 31, 2016. She was professor emerita at the University of Michigan. An American historian of the French Revolution and early nineteenth-century France, she received numerous awards for her scholarship and was well known for her work on the history of early printing. In 1979 she was the first resident scholar of the Center for the Book at the Library of Congress. She attended the 1985 AAS PHBAC Summer Seminar, “The Making of Literate America: Diffusion of Culture Based on Printing, 1759-1850,” led by Stephen Botein.