Biography

Born February 18, 1933 in Lyle, Minnesota, USA. Married, 2 children. Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore (USA).

Education

  • 1955 : B.A., Macalester College
  • 1957 : M.A., University of Minnesota
  • 1960 : Ph.D., University of Minnesota

Professional career

  • 1959-1960 : Instructor, University of Southern California
  • 1961-1962 : Instructor, Columbia University
  • 1962-1966 : Assistant Professor, Columbia University
  • 1966-1970 : Associate Professor, Columbia University
  • Since 1970 : Professor, The Johns Hopkins University
  • 1994-1995 : Visiting Professor at the Collège de France, holding the annual International Chair

Invitations to foreign universities

  • 1958-1959 : Fulbright Fellow, Sorbonne
  • 1959-1960 : Fulbright Teaching Fellow, University of Strasbourg
  • 1968-1969 : Guggenheim Fellow
  • 1973-1974 : Visiting Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
  • Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin

Awards and distinctions

  • Corresponding member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques
  • Member of the Société des lettres, sciences et arts de l'Aveyron
  • Medal of the City of Tours

Selected bibliography

Main publications

  • Richelieu and the Councillors of Louis XIII

    Ranum O., Richelieu and the Councillors of Louis XIII, Oxford, 1963. Traduction française : Les créatures de Richelieu : secrétaires d'État et surintendants des Finances, 1635-1642, Paris, 1966.

  • Paris in the Age of Absolutism

    Ranum O., Paris in the Age of Absolutism, New York, 1968, trad. française : Les Parisiens du XVIIe siècle, Paris, 1973.

  • Artisans of Glory: Writers and Historical thought in Seventeenth-Century France

    Ranum O., Artisans of Glory: Writers and Historical thought in Seventeenth-Century France, Chapel Hill, 1980.

  • The Fronde, a French Revolution

    Ranum O., The Fronde, a French Revolution, New York, W. W. Norton, 1993.