Eric Hobsbawm is a British Marxist historian and relevant author. He was born in Alejandria on June 9^th, 1917. He lived in Viena and Berlin. His parents were Leopold Percy Hobsbawm y Nelly Grün. They early died, for this reason, Hobsbawn and his sister were adopted for his maternal aunt and for his paternal uncle, and they move to England.

He studied in Prinz- Heinrich-Gymnasium, in the St Marylebone Grammar School, and finally, in the King’s College, Cambridge. Then he was teacher of history at the University of London, and in his later years he was teacher and integrant of the department of politic sciences of The New School for Social Research’s.

Hobsbawm is considered as the most influence historian at present. The Hobsbawm’s principal books are The Age or Revolution: Europe 1789-1848, The Age of Capital, 1848-1875, the Age of Empire, Nations and Nationalism, On the Edge of the New Century (2000), How to Change the World: Tales of Marx and Marxism 1840-2011. In these books, he shows his interested about the development of traditions as inventions of national elites to justify their existence and his analyze of de “dual revolution”

He died on October 1, 2012 for leukemia and pneumonia.

I like very much this historian because he shows a great interpretation about history. He include in his study cultural, economic and political elements, that make his study a grate work.