Clarence Herbert Hamilton

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Clarence Herbert Hamilton (also Clarence H. Hamilton , born January 8, 1886 in Des Moines , Polk County , Iowa , United States ; † July 6, 1986 in Lexington , Middlesex County , Massachusetts , United States) was an American religious scholar and Sinologist .

Life

Family and education

Born in Des Moines, the capital of the US state of Iowa, Clarence Herbert Hamilton, son of George Lee Hamilton and Carrie Eva Wood Hamilton, devoted himself to studying theology , philosophy and sinology at the University of Chicago after completing compulsory schooling in 1910 earned him the degree of Bachelor of Arts , 1914 he became a Doctor of Philosophy PhD . From 1920 to 1921 he studied at Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York .

Clarence Herbert Hamilton, a member of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) , married Lulu Snyder on April 18, 1916. The marriage produced the daughters Ruth, wife of Donald H. Edwards, and Miriam, wife of Arthur K. Berliner, as well as the sons Harry Edward and Robert Lee. Clarence Herbert Hamilton died in July 1986 at the old age of 100.

Professional background

After completing his doctorate, Clarence Herbert Hamilton was appointed Professor of Philosophy and Psychology and head of the department of the same name at Nanking University, which merged with Nanjing University in 1952 . In 1927 he returned to the United States, during the winter session of the same year he held a position as Visiting Lecturer on Oriental Religions at Columbia University in the City of New York . In the Spring Quarter of 1928 he taught as Visiting Professor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago . He then took on a position as Professor of Eastern Philosophy at the College of Missions of the Hartford Seminary Foundation. In 1931 he moved to the Oberlin Graduate School of Theology at Oberlin College as Professor of Missions . From 1932 he worked as Professor of Philosophy of Religion and Christian Missions at the Oberlin Graduate School. From June 25 to August 3, 1934 he was employed as a Teacher of Far Eastern Philosophy at the Summer Seminar on Far Eastern Studies (under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies ) at the University of California, Berkeley .

Clarence Herbert Hamilton was an elected member of the American Oriental Society , the American Association of University Professors, the Far Eastern Society, the National Geographic Society , the Oberlin Cosmos Club, the Social Science Club, Rotary International and the American Council of Learned Societies, there he was Chairman of the Commission on Far East Studies and was a member of the Commission on Research and Teaching Personnel in the Humanities. Hamilton emerged in particular as the author of important religious studies treatises.

Publications

  • A Psychological Interpretation of Mysticism. Ph. D. University of Chicago 1914, Chicago, Ill., 1916
  • Buddhistic idealism in Wei shih er shih lwen. Open Court Pub. Co., Chicago, Ill., 1929
  • Buddhism in India, Ceylon, China and Japan; a reading guide. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill., 1931
  • Hsüan Chuang and the wei shih philosophy. in: American Oriental Society: Journal of the American Oriental Society, Volume 51, Number 4. George P. Putnam, New York, NY, 1931, pp. 291-308.
  • Wei shih er shih lun; or, The treatise in twenty stanzas on representation-only. American Oriental Society, New Haven, Conn., 1938
  • The Present Conflict of Eastern Ideals. Cambridge, Mass., 1942
  • Indian Thought and its Metaphysical Goal. in: Crozer Theological Seminary: Crozer Quarterly, Vol. XXV. Crozer Theological Seminary, Chester, Pa., Etc., pp. 117-130.
  • Buddhism, a religion of infinite compassion: selections from Buddhist literature. Liberal Arts Press, New York, 1952

literature

  • Dale Maurice Riepe: The philosophy of India and its impact on American thought. in: American lecture series, no. 772. American lectures in philosophy. Thomas, Springfield, Ill., 1970, pp. 154, 155.
  • Who Was Who in America. : Volume VII, 1977–1981 with world notables . Marquis Who's Who, Chicago, Ill., 1981, p. 249.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Clarence Herbert Hamilton data set from the Family Group Record on Familysearch.org; accessed on October 2, 2016

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personal data
SURNAME Hamilton, Clarence Herbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hamilton, Clarence H.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American religious scholar and sinologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Des Moines , Polk County , Iowa , United States
DATE OF DEATH July 6, 1986
Place of death Lexington , Middlesex County , Massachusetts , United States