S. N. Eisenstadt

Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt was an Israeli sociologist and writer, known particularly as a sociologist of youth, an analyst of civilizations, and a theorist of what he called multiple modernities. He held the Rose Isaacs chair of sociology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem from 1949 until his retirement as professor emeritus in 1990, after which he continued to write and teach, and he received honors including the Israel Prize in 1973, the Balzan Prize in 1988, the Humboldt Research Award in 2002, and the Holberg Prize in 2006.