Knud Haakonssen

Knud Haakonssen (born 1947) is a Danish historian of moral and political thought. He has held positions in political science, philosophy and history in Australia, New Zealand, the USA, England, Scotland and Germany and is now emeritus Professor of Intellectual History at the University of St. Andrews and the University of Sussex. He was Director of the Sussex Centre for Intellectual History, 2005-2011, Co-Director of the St. Andrews Institute for Intellectual History, 2016-23, and he founded the Centre for Early-Modern Natural Law, Universität Erfurt, 2016-22. He is known for his work on early modern thought, natural law theory, Adam Smith and the Scottish Enlightenment.

He is a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE), of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, and of the Royal Historical Society. He was honoured with a Festschrift: ''Philosophy, Rights and Natural Law. Essays in Honour of Knud Haakonssen'', ed. Ian Hunter and Richard Whatmore. Edinburgh University Press, 2019. Provided by Wikipedia