Peter Brown

Peter Robert Lamont Brown FBA (born 26 July 1935) is an Irish historian. He is the Rollins Professor of History Emeritus at Princeton University. Brown is credited with having brought coherence to the field of Late Antiquity, and is often regarded as the inventor of said field. His work has concerned, in particular, the religious culture of the later Roman Empire and early medieval Europe, and the relation between religion and society.

Honorary degrees and college fellowships
Honorary doctorates from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland (1974), Trinity College Dublin (1990), the University of Pisa (2001), Cambridge (2004), the Central European University in Budapest (2005), Oxford (2006), King's College London (2008), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2010), the Aristotle University in Thessaloniki (2010), and the University of St Andrews (2014). His US honorary doctorates include the University of Chicago (1978), Wesleyan University (1993), Tulane (1994), Columbia University (2001), Harvard University (2002), Southern Methodist University (2004), Yale University (2006), University of Notre Dame (2008), Amherst College (2009), and St Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary, NY (2013).

Honorary fellow of Royal Holloway College in the University of London (1997)
Honorary fellow of New College at Oxford University (1998).

Prizes

• Heineken Prize for History from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (1994),
• Ausonius Prize for Ancient History from the University of Trier (1999),
• Premio Anaxilao from the Municipality of Reggio di Calabria (1999).
• Kluge Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Study of Humanity, from the US Library of Congress (2008).
• Balzan Prize for the Humanities, for his works on Graeco-Roman antiquity (2011).
• Dan David Prize in the category of "Retrieving the Past: Historians and their Sources" (2015)

Learned centres, societies and academies

• Foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (1991);
• Corresponding member of the Royal Academy of Letters in Barcelona (1997);
• Honorary fellow of the Italian Association for the Study of Sanctity, Cults and Hagiography;
• Honorary member of the Royal Irish Academy (2010);
• Foreign member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Italy (2015);
• Fellow of the Ecclesiastical History Society in the UK (2016).
• Honorary president (from 2012) of the Centro Internacional de Estudios sobre la Antigüedad Tardía 'Teodosio el Grande', in the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, at Segovia.
• Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters in France (1996).