Mark Elvin

Professor Mark Elvin

  • Post Nominals: FAHA
  • Fellow Type: Corresponding Fellow
  • Elected to the Academy: 1993

Biography

Mark Elvin was a Harkness-Commonwealth Fellow, Harvard (1962-64); Research Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge (1966-67); Fellow of St Antony’s College, Oxford (1973-89); Inaugural Holder of the Chaire Europà enne at the cole Normale Supà rieure, Paris (1993); and Professor of Chinese Studies (Vice Professor Rudolf Wagner), Sinologisches Seminar, University of Heidelberg, Germany (2003-04). He retired from the Australian National University in 2006, and is working on annotating his draft translation of a crucial but relatively neglected European work in Latin on plant science: R. J. Camerer’s 1694 De sexu plantarum epistola [Letter on the sexuality of plants]

Acknowledgement of Country

The Australian Academy of the Humanities recognises Australia’s First Nations Peoples as the traditional owners and custodians of this land, and their continuous connection to country, community and culture.

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Acknowledgement of Country

The Australian Academy of the Humanities recognises Australia’s First Nations Peoples as the traditional owners and custodians of this land, and their continuous connection to country, community and culture.