Peter Hanns Reill

American historian (1938–2019)

Peter Hanns Reill (1938-2019) was an American historian. A professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, he taught history and served as the director of the UCLA Clark Library and the Center for 17th and 18th Century Studies. . Reill was born in Astoria, NY, on December 11, 1938, the child of immigrants from Germany. He earned a bachelor's degree from New York University in 1960, and his PhD from Northwestern University in 1969. He joined the Department of History at UCLA as an Assistant Professor in 1966, and became Full Professor in 1980. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_H._Reill

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