Carl Lotus Becker

Carl Lotus Becker (born September 7, 1873 in Waterloo , Iowa , † April 10, 1945 in Ithaca , New York ) was an American historian and university professor .

biography

After attending school, he first studied at the University of Wisconsin and graduated in 1896 with a Bachelor of Letters (B.Litt.) . After a postgraduate study at Columbia University , which he finished with a Doctor of Letters (D.Litt.), He was first teacher of history and political science at Pennsylvania State College in 1899 and then professor at Dartmouth College in 1901 . This was followed by a professorship at the University of Kansas from 1902 to 1916 .

In the meantime he acquired a Philosophiae Doctor (Ph.D.) at the University of Wisconsin in 1907 with a dissertation on The History of Political Parties in the Province of New York . Most recently, after a subsequent brief position as professor for the history of Europe at the University of Minnesota from 1917 until his retirement in 1941, he was professor at Cornell University .

He was also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (elected in 1923), the American Academy of Arts and Letters (elected in 1933) and the American Historical Association , of which he was president from 1931 to 1932. He was an elected member of the American Philosophical Society since 1936.

In addition to his teaching activities, he also wrote several specialist books that dealt with the history of the philosophy of the 18th century in addition to the history of the United States . His most significant publications include:

The Beginnings of the American People (1915)
The Eve of the Revolution (1918)
The Declaration of Independence (1922)
The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth Century Philosophers (1932)
Everyman His Own Historian (1935)
How New Will the Better World Be? A Discussion of Post-War Reconstruction (1944)
- German: The world of tomorrow. An overview of the problems of reconstruction after the war (1944)

"All historians, even the most scientific, have bias, if in no other sense than the determination not to have any." (All historians, even the most scientific, have tendencies, and if only in the sense that their determinations have none)
“Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to them ideas which their minds are already predisposed to accept.” (Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which are their own Clarify thoughts which express their own ideas well or which suggest ideas which their minds are already inclined to accept)
"My own mind is my own church." (My own mind is my own church)

^ Members: Carl Becker. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed February 15, 2019 .
^ Member History: Carl L. Becker. American Philosophical Society, accessed April 27, 2018 .
^ Quotes from Carl Lotus Becker

personal data
SURNAME	Becker, Carl Lotus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	September 7, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH	Waterloo , Iowa
DATE OF DEATH	April 10, 1945
Place of death	Ithaca , New York