Edwin Francis Gay

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Edwin Francis Gay (born October 27, 1867 in Detroit , † February 8, 1946 in Pasadena ) was an American economic historian and publicist.

Vita

Gay graduated from the University of Michigan in 1890. In 1902 he received his doctorate from the Humboldt University in Berlin .

In the same year he followed his teacher, the English economic historian William Ashley (1860-1927), who held the first chair in economic history in the English-speaking world at Harvard . Gay was initially a lecturer in economic history at Harvard; In 1903 he became an assistant professor and in 1906 a professor.

Edwin F. Gay was the first dean of Harvard Business School from 1908 to 1919 .

Gay was president of the New York Evening Post from 1920 to 1923 .

From 1929 on he was responsible for the US branch of the International Scientific Committee on the History of Awards .

Honors

In 1913 Gay was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 1932 to the American Philosophical Society .

The Edwin F. Gay Prize for Economic History was founded in his memory . The winners include u. a. the German-American economic historian Richard H. Tilly .

Web links

literature

  • H. Heaton: A Scholar in Action: Edwin F. Gay , Cambridge (Mass.), Harvard University Press, 1952.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Memorial: Edwin Francis Gay from jstor.org
  2. ↑ Our History
  3. ^ Online Archive of California: Register of the Edwin Francis Gay Papers
  4. ↑ Julien Demade, Produire un fait scientifique. Beveridge et le Comité international d'histoire des prix , Paris, Publications de la Sorbonne, 2018, pp. 63–64.
  5. ^ Member History: Edwin Francis Gay. American Philosophical Society, accessed August 17, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Gay, Edwin Francis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gay, Edwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American economist
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Detroit
DATE OF DEATH February 8, 1946
Place of death Pasadena, California