Elizabeth Eisenstein

Elizabeth Eisenstein
Elizabeth Eisenstein in 1979 as the first resident scholar for the Center for the Book at the Library of Congress
Born	(1923-10-11)October 11, 1923
Died	January 31, 2016(2016-01-31) (aged 92)
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Vassar College Radcliffe College
Scientific career
Fields	Historian
Institutions	University of Michigan

Elizabeth Lewisohn Eisenstein (October 11, 1923 – January 31, 2016) was an American historian of the French Revolution and early 19th-century France. She is well known for her work on the history of early printing, writing on the transition in media between the era of 'manuscript culture' and that of 'print culture', as well as the role of the printing press in effecting broad cultural change in Western civilization.