{"id":116491,"date":"2021-12-08T09:20:32","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T14:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=116491"},"modified":"2022-09-28T10:16:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T14:16:00","slug":"wright-state-historian-paul-lockhart-elected-to-the-royal-society-for-danish-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2021\/12\/08\/wright-state-historian-paul-lockhart-elected-to-the-royal-society-for-danish-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Wright State historian Paul Lockhart elected to The Royal Society for Danish History"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_116499\" style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2021\/12\/08\/wright-state-historian-paul-lockhart-elected-to-the-royal-society-for-danish-history\/59024-jim-hannah-history-professor-paul-lockhart-11-2-21-3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-116499\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-116499\" class=\"size-large wp-image-116499\" src=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2021\/12\/Paul-Lockhart-59024_012-508x350.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"317\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-116499\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paul Lockhart, Ph.D., professor of history at Wright State University, was elected to The Royal Society for Danish History.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Paul Lockhart, Ph.D., professor of <a href=\"https:\/\/liberal-arts.wright.edu\/history\">history<\/a> at Wright State University, was elected to The Royal Society for Danish History for making significant contributions to Denmark\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>The society, which was founded in 1745, is one of the older royally sponsored scholarly societies in Europe. It has foreign members, but Lockhart was elected as a Dane. Memberships are for life and the number of Danish members is fixed at 70.<\/p>\n<p>Lockhart said he had been hoping to receive the honor for at least the past 25 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s about the highest honor a historian can get in Denmark, and I don\u2019t know of a single foreigner who has held a membership as a Dane,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Lockhart held a prestigious fellowship from the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study and has been a guest lecturer at the University of Southern Denmark.<\/p>\n<p>He is the author of seven books, including \u201cDenmark in the Thirty Years\u2019 War, 1618-1648: King Christian IV and the Decline of the Oldenburg State.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Lockhart, professor of history, had been hoping to be elected to the society for at least the past 25 years. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2021\/12\/08\/wright-state-historian-paul-lockhart-elected-to-the-royal-society-for-danish-history\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":115059,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[722,725,4863,747,715],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics","category-home-news-sidebar","category-humanities-and-cultural-studies","category-liberal-arts","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116491"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116592,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116491\/revisions\/116592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}