Keith Arnold Hitchins (April 2, 1931 – November 1, 2020) was an American historian and a professor of Eastern European history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, specializing in Romania and its history.
[2][3] After graduating from Union College, he went to Harvard University, earning a Ph.D. in history in 1964 under the direction of Robert Lee Wolff.
[4] Hitchins died on November 1, 2020, at age 89, in the Carle Foundation Hospital in Urbana, Illinois.
[1] After his death, Romanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Bogdan Aurescu wrote on Twitter:[3] We pay homage to professor Keith Hitchins, an American voice of immeasurable value to the academic world.
Having an authentic interest and expertise in the history of Romania, he was an honorary member of the Romanian Academy.