Joseph Hamburger

Joseph Hamburger (1922 – August 21, 1997, New Haven, Connecticut) was an American historian.

He earned his doctorate from the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. His work focused on nineteenth century Britain, with studies on James Mill, John Stuart Mill and Thomas Macaulay. His obituarists claimed that he made an immense contribution to historical knowledge through his work on nineteenth century intellectual history and called him a sturdy advocate of "the fundamental principles of individual liberty and representative democracy".

Works James Mill and the Art of Revolution (Yale: Yale University Press, 1963). Intellectuals in Politics: John Stuart Mill and the Philosophic Radicals, Volume 14 (Yale: Yale University Press, 1965). Macaulay and the Whig Tradition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976). John Stuart Mill on Liberty and Control (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999).