In 1941 he married Vera Broido, with whom he had a son, the writer Nik Cohn.
He served for six years in the British Army, being commissioned into the Queen's Royal Regiment in 1939 and transferring to the Intelligence Corps in 1944, where his knowledge of modern languages found employment. He was a scholar and research student at Christ Church between 19, taking a first-class degree in Modern Languages in 1936 (French) and in 1939 (German). According to the Italian scholar Lorenzo Ferrari, "Cohn grew up feeling 'a man between all worlds' with his German-Jewish surname, his mother's Catholic faith (although she never had him baptised), and his numerous German relatives". He was educated at Gresham's School and Christ Church, Oxford. Norman Rufus Colin Cohn FBA (12 January 1915 – 31 July 2007) was a British academic, historian and writer who spent 14 years as a professorial fellow and as Astor-Wolfson Professor at the University of Sussex.Ĭohn was born in London, to a German Jewish father and a Catholic mother.
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