Charles Kendall Adams

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Charles Kendall Adams
American Historical Association directors during their annual meeting on December 30, 1889 in Washington, DC Seated (left to right) William Poole , Justin Winsor , Charles Kendall Adams (President), George Bancroft , John Jay and Andrew Dickson White , standing Herbert B. Adams and CW Bowen .

Charles Kendall Adams (born January 24, 1835 in Derby , Orleans County , Vermont , † July 26, 1902 in Redlands , California ) was an American historian and university professor .

Life

At the age of 20, Adams first moved to Iowa , before he began studying at the University of Michigan shortly afterwards , which he graduated in 1861. In 1863 he became an assistant professor there and then took over a full professorship in history at the University of Michigan in 1868 . There he founded the Historical Seminary in Ann Arbor in 1869 , thus introducing the European educational establishment of the seminary in the USA.

In 1881 he accepted a position as a non-resident professor of history at Cornell University and in 1885 was appointed president of the university to succeed Andrew Dickson White . During this time he was also president of the American Historical Association in 1889 . He was then President of the University of Wisconsin – Madison between 1892 and 1901 .

Publications

In addition to his teaching activities, Adams wrote numerous essays on historical and educational topics as well as some specialist books such as:

  • Democracy and Monarchy in France (New York, 1874)
  • Questions and notes on the constitutional history of England, for the use of advanced students and postgraduates in the historical seminary (Ann Arbor, 1879)
  • Manual of Historical Literature. Comprising brief descriptions of the most important histories in English, French and German: together with practical suggestions as to methods and courses of historical study: for the use of students, general readers, and collectors of books (New York, 1882)
  • Representative British Orations (3 volumes, New York, 1884)
  • Christopher Columbus: his life and his work (New York, 1892)
  • A history of the United States (co-author William P. Trent, Boston, posthumously 1903)
  • Universal cyclopaedia and atlas (New York, posthumously 1905)

Web links

literature

  • Meyers Großes Personenlexikon , Mannheim 1968, p. 17
personal data
SURNAME Adams, Charles Kendall
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH Derby , Vermont
DATE OF DEATH July 26, 1902
Place of death Redlands , California