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'''Marius Berthus Jansen''' (April 11, 1922 – December 10, 2000)<ref>Library of Congress Authority File: [http://errol.oclc.org/laf/n50-36717.html Jansen, Marius B.]; retrieved 2011-07-14</ref> was an American academic, historian, and Emeritus Professor of Japanese History at [[Princeton University]].<ref name="princeton">Princeton University, Office of Communications, [https://www.princeton.edu/pr/news/00/q4/1213-jansen.htm "Professor Marius Berthus Jansen, scholar of Japanese history, dies,"] December 13, 2000.</ref>
'''Marius Berthus Jansen''' (April 11, 1922 – December 10, 2000)<ref>Library of Congress Authority File: [http://errol.oclc.org/laf/n50-36717.html Jansen, Marius B.]; retrieved 2011-07-14</ref> was an American academic, historian, and Emeritus Professor of Japanese History at [[Princeton University]].<ref name="princeton">Princeton University, Office of Communications, [https://www.princeton.edu/pr/news/00/q4/1213-jansen.htm "Professor Marius Berthus Jansen, scholar of Japanese history, dies,"] December 13, 2000.</ref>


He was born in [[the Netherlands]], and graduated from Princeton in 1943 and Harvard in 1950, having majored in European history of the Renaissance and Reformation.<ref>The New York Times [https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/26/world/marius-b-jansen-78-scholar-of-japanese-history-and-culture.html Marius B. Jansen, 78, Scholar Of Japanese History and Culture] December 26, 2000</ref>
He was born in [[Vleuten]] in [[the Netherlands]] to Gerarda and Bartus Jansen, a florist who moved his family to [[Johnston, Rhode Island]] in the fall of 1923.<ref>[https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JNDT-V3Y Marius B. Jansen] on the passenger list of the ''Volendam'', September 29, 1923, in ''New York Passenger Arrival Lists (Ellis Island), 1892-1924''</ref> Jansen grew up in [[Massachusetts]] and graduated from [[Princeton University|Princeton]] in 1943 and [[Harvard University|Harvard]] in 1950, having majored in European history of the Renaissance and Reformation.<ref>The New York Times [https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/26/world/marius-b-jansen-78-scholar-of-japanese-history-and-culture.html Marius B. Jansen, 78, Scholar Of Japanese History and Culture] December 26, 2000</ref>


He was a member of the [[Council on Foreign Relations]] and of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]]<ref name="princeton"/> and president of the [[Association for Asian Studies]] in 1976.
He was a member of the [[Council on Foreign Relations]] and of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]]<ref name="princeton"/> and president of the [[Association for Asian Studies]] in 1976.
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Revision as of 22:34, 25 February 2019

Marius Berthus Jansen (April 11, 1922 – December 10, 2000)[1] was an American academic, historian, and Emeritus Professor of Japanese History at Princeton University.[2]

He was born in Vleuten in the Netherlands to Gerarda and Bartus Jansen, a florist who moved his family to Johnston, Rhode Island in the fall of 1923.[3] Jansen grew up in Massachusetts and graduated from Princeton in 1943 and Harvard in 1950, having majored in European history of the Renaissance and Reformation.[4]

He was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences[2] and president of the Association for Asian Studies in 1976.

Selected works

In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Marius Jansen, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 100+ works in 300+ publications in 12 languages and 13,900+ library holdings.[5]

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.
  • The Japanese and Sun Yat-sen (1954)
  • Sakamoto Ryōma and the Meiji Restoration (1961)
  • Japan and Communist China in the Next Decade (1964)
  • Changing Japanese Attitudes Toward Modernization (1965)
  • Studies in the institutional history of early modern Japan (1968) John Whitney Hall and Marius Jansen, eds. Princeton, Princeton University Press.
  • Japan and its World: Two Centuries of Change (1975)
  • Japan and China: from War to Peace, 1894-1972 (1975)
  • Japan in Transition, from Tokugawa to Meiji (1986)
  • China in the Tokugawa World (1992 ISBN 9780674184763) [1]; DeGruyter 2014) The 1988 Edwin O. Reischauer Lectures
  • Japanese Today: Change and Continuity (1995) Edwin O. Reischauer, Marius B. Jansen[6]
  • The Making of Modern Japan (2000)[7]

Honors

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Library of Congress Authority File: Jansen, Marius B.; retrieved 2011-07-14
  2. ^ a b c d Princeton University, Office of Communications, "Professor Marius Berthus Jansen, scholar of Japanese history, dies," December 13, 2000.
  3. ^ Marius B. Jansen on the passenger list of the Volendam, September 29, 1923, in New York Passenger Arrival Lists (Ellis Island), 1892-1924
  4. ^ The New York Times Marius B. Jansen, 78, Scholar Of Japanese History and Culture December 26, 2000
  5. ^ WorldCat Identities Archived 2010-12-30 at the Wayback Machine: Jansen, Marius B.
  6. ^ Japanese Today Harvard University Press Books
  7. ^ The Making of Modern Japan Harvard University Press Books
  8. ^ Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (Japan): Culture 2000.

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