Norman Rufus Colin Cohn

Norman Rufus Colin Cohn (1915–2007) was a British historian and author renowned for exploring the historical roots of totalitarian ideologies, millenarianism, and antisemitic myths in works such as The Pursuit of the Millennium (1957), Warrant for Genocide (1967, winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award), and Europe's Inner Demons (1975). Born in London to a German-Jewish father and Catholic mother, he served in British military intelligence during World War II and later became Astor-Wolfson Professor at the University of Sussex, directing the Centre for Research in Collective Psychopathology.