Larry Siedentop

Sir Larry Siedentop CBE
Siedentop in 2013
Born	Larry Alan Siedentop (1936-05-24)24 May 1936 Chicago, Illinois, US
Died	June 12, 2024(2024-06-12) (aged 88)
Nationality	American British
Academic background
Alma mater	Hope College Harvard University Magdalen College, Oxford
Thesis	The Limits of Enlightenment (1966)
Doctoral advisor	Sir Isaiah Berlin
Academic work
Discipline	Philosophy
Sub-discipline	Political philosophy
Institutions	Nuffield College, Oxford Keble College, Oxford
Notable works	Democracy in Europe (2000) Inventing the Individual (2014)

Sir Larry Alan Siedentop CBE (24 May 1936 - 12 June 2024)^[1][2] was an American-born British political philosopher with a special interest in 19th-century French liberalism. He was the author of Democracy in Europe(2000) and Inventing the Individual (2014) and an occasional contributor to several major British daily newspapers, including the Financial Times and The Times.

Born in Chicago, Siedentop attended Hope College, a liberal arts college in Michigan affiliated with the Reformed Church in America, and Harvard University, where he received his Master of Arts degree. He then received, as a Marshall Scholar, a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Oxford for a thesis on the thought of Joseph de Maistre and Maine de Biran, written at Magdalen College, Oxford, under the supervision of Sir Isaiah Berlin.

From 1965 to 1968, Siedentop was a Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford, but he spent most of his academic career as a Fellow of Keble College, Oxford, and a University Lecturer. After retiring from Oxford, Siedentop was a visiting fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in Wassenaar, Queen Victoria Eugenia Professor at the Complutense University of Madrid and a visiting fellow in Philosophy and Public Affairs at the University of St Andrews.

Siedentop was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2004 for services to political thought and higher education, and was knighted in the 2016 Birthday Honours for services to political science.^[3]