Charles Oscar Paullin

Charles Oscar Paullin (born July 20, 1869 in Ohio , † September 1, 1944 in Washington, DC ) was an American historian specializing in the United States Navy .

Live and act

Paullin grew up in Greene County , Ohio.

Between 1890 and 1893 he studied at Antioch College in Yellow Springs (Ohio) and immediately switched to Union Christian College in Merom ( Indiana ). There he was able to successfully complete his studies in the fall of 1893 and immediately got a teaching position for mathematics at Key Mar College in Hagerstown ( Maryland ) which he held until spring 1894. Then went to the Johns Hopkins University ( Baltimore ) for another year .

In 1896 Paullin got a job with the US Naval Hydrographic Office and held this office until 1900. This year Paullin left the Navy and began at the University of Chicago for a PhD ; one of his lecturers was the historian John Franklin Jameson . In 1904 he earned his doctoral thesis "The Navy of the American Revolution" the Dr. phil.

Between 1905 and 1918 Paullin lectured on the history of the US Navy at George Washington University . In 1910 he was appointed as a historian at the Carnegie Institution for Science, and from the following year he held the same teaching position at Johns Hopkins University.

In 1936 Paullin resigned all offices and retired. He died on September 1, 1944 in Washington, DC and was buried in Rock Creek Cemetery.

Honors

• 1932 Loubat Prize for Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States

Fonts (selection)

As an author

Essays

• The naval administration of the Southern States during the revolution . In: The Sewanee Review , Vol. 10 (1902), Issue 4, pp. 418-428, ISSN  0037-3052
• Services of Commodore John Rodgers in the war of 1812. 1812-1815 . In: US Naval Institute Proceedings , Vol. 35 (1909) No. 2.
• President Lincoln and the Navy . In: The American Historical Review , Vol. 14 (1909), Issue 2, pp. 284-303, ISSN  0002-8762

Books

• The Navy of the American Revolution. Ita administration, its policy and its achievements . Haskell House, New York 1971, ISBN 0-8383-1130-X (also dissertation, University of Chicago, EA Chicago 1906)
• Commodore John Rodgers. Captain, Commodore, and senior officer of the American Navy. 1773-1883 . Arno Press, New York 1980, ISBN 0-405-13049-X (EA Cleveland 1910).
• Diplomatic negotiations of American Naval Officers. 1778-1883 (Albert Shaw Lectures on Diplomatic History; 1911). Peter Smith Press, Gloucester, Mass. 1967 (EA Baltimore 1912).
• Guide to the materials in London Archives for the history of the United States since 1783 . CIS, Washington, DC 1914 (with Frederic L. Paxson )
• John K. Wright (Ed.): Atlas of the historical geography of the United States . Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn. 1975, ISBN 0-8371-8208-5 (EA New York 1932).
• Arnold S. Lott (Ed.): American voyages to the Orient. 1690-1865. An account of merchant and naval activities in China, Japan and the various Pacific Islands . US Naval Institute, Annapolis, Md. 1972, ISBN 0-87021-072-6 (EA Washington, DC 1940)

As editor

• The battle of Lake Erie . A collection of documents . Rowfant Club, Cleveland, Ohio 1918.
• Out-Letters of the Continental Marine Committee and Board of Admiralty. August 1776 - September 1780 (Publications of the Naval History Society; 4). De Vinne Press, New York 1914
• European treaties bearing on the history of the United States and its dependencies ... CIS, Washington, DC 1917/37 (4 vol.)

1. Until 1648 . 1917.
2. 1650-1697 . 1927.
3. 1698-1715 . 1934.
4. 1716-1815 . 1937.

Individual evidence

1. ^ From 1962 Naval Oceanographic Office .