Life
Johnston, born in Boston, was educated at Harvard College, where he graduated A. B. in 1958, [2] and later took a Ph.D. at Harvard in 1965, [3] supervised by Crane Brinton. [4] He established his interest in European intellectual history with such works as The Formative Years of R. G. Collingwood (1965) and The Austrian Mind: An Intellectual and Social History, 1848-1938 (1972). Before publication this had received the Austrian History Prize for best manuscript in Austrian history. [3] At the University of Massachusetts he was the dissertation supervisor of Roderick Stackelberg, two years his junior. [4]
Johnston retired from his university's history department in 1999 with the title of Professor Emeritus, shortly before completing his two-volume Encyclopedia of Monasticism (2000). He later migrated to Australia. [3]
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