Charles Seymour (historian)

Charles Seymour (born January 1, 1885 in New Haven , Connecticut , † August 11, 1963 in Chatham , Massachusetts ) was an American historian and President of Yale University in the years 1937-1951.

He was the son of Thomas Day Seymour (1848-1907) and Sarah Hitchcock Seymour (1846-1916).

He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Cambridge in 1904 and a special BA from Yale in 1908, where he also became a member of the Skull and Bones fraternity . He later earned a Masters of Arts from Cambridge Faculty (1909) and a Ph.D. Graduated from Yale in 1911. He served on the board of directors at Berkeley College , where in 1908 he helped expand and safeguard the interests of Yale Residential College . He taught history at Yale from 1911 to 1937, where he was promoted to Sterling Professor ; meanwhile, he was the successor of James Rowland Angell also president of this institution. Under his presidency, he introduced various university seminars as major, including American Studies . In addition, he was head of an Austro-Hungarian department of the American Commission to Negotiate Peace and as a US delegate to the Romanian , Yugoslav and Czechoslovak State Commissions from 1919. In 1938 Seymour was admitted to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 1939 to the American Philosophical Society elected.

Seymour died in Chatham, Massachusetts. His son Charles Seymour, Jr. became a professor of art history at Yale University.

"We seek the truth and will endure the consequences."

"We are looking for the truth and will endure the consequences."

- Charles Seymour

Web links

• Literature by and about Charles Seymour in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Members of the American Academy. Listed by election year, 1900-1949 ( PDF ). Retrieved September 27, 2015
2. ^ Member History: Charles Seymour. American Philosophical Society, accessed December 25, 2018 .