Question

When was Eric Hobsbawm was born ?
and what he discovered​

Answer 1

Answer:

Eric John Hobsbawm was born in 1917 in Alexandria, Egypt, where a confused clerk at the British consulate misspelled the last name of his father, Leopold Percy Hobsbaum, an unsuccessful merchant from the East End of London.

Answer 2

Eric John Hobsbawm was born in 1917 in Alexandria, Egypt.

Hobsbawm helped found the academic journal Past & Present in 1952.