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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in Alexandria in 1917, Hobsbawm spent his childhood in Vienna and Berlin until his parents died and Hitler's rise sent him to London with his adoptive family. He served in the Second World War, then earned his PhD at Cambridge and began the work that would define him: the tetralogy tracing the "long 19th century" through revolution, capital, and empire, then the "short 20th" in The Age of Extremes. He also edited the volume that gave us "invented traditions," the idea that many national rituals are newer than they pretend. His Marxism was lifelong and unapologetic, shaping every line. In 1998 he was appointed to the Order of the Companions of Honour; in 2003 he won the Balzan Prize for his analysis of Europe's violent century and his ability to fuse scholarship with literary force. He died in 2012, still president of Birkbeck.