George Louis Beer

George Louis Beer (born July 26, 1872 in Staten Island , New York , † March 15, 1920 in New York City ) was an American historian.

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Beer came from a wealthy family: his father was an importer of tobacco, his paternal grandfather imported goods mostly from Europe.

Beer received his first lessons from private tutors, and later he attended a private school. He studied at Columbia University ( Manhattan ) and achieved his AB in 1892 and his MA in the following year. He did his doctorate with Herbert Levi Osgood (1855-1918).

On November 11, 1896, Beer married Edith Hellman in New York and had a daughter with her. Edwin Robert Seligman (1861–1939), a colleague from Columbia University, married a sister of Beers at almost the same time.

Immediately after his doctorate, Beer was entrusted by his doctoral supervisor with a teaching position that he held until 1897. At the same time, he also worked in his parents' business. In 1903 he went on a study trip to Great Britain to research the archives there about the American colonial era (→ British Empire ). Since that time he has also been an important contributor to the Round Table Journal .

On request, President Woodrow Wilson acted Beer during the First World War as a consultant to the American Commission of Inquiry .

George Louis Beer died on March 15, 1920 in New York.

Honors

• 1913 Loubat Prize for The Origins of the British Colonial System. 1578-1660
• In 1923 the George Louis Beer Prize named after him was founded

Fonts (selection)

• The Commercial Policy of England toward the American Colonies . New York 1893.
• African Questions at the Paris Peace Conference . New York 1923.
• The English-Speaking Peoples. Their Future Relations and Joint International Obligations . London 1917.
• Origins of the British Colonial System. 1578-1660 . New York 1908.

literature

• Robert L. Schuyler: Beer, George Louis . In: Allen Johnson (Ed.): Dictionary of American Biography . Scribners, New York 1936.