George William Cottrell

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George William Cottrell, Jr. (born September 16, 1903 in Detroit , Michigan , † May 18, 1995 in Exeter , New Hampshire ), often G. William Cottrell , was an American editor and ornithologist .

Life

Cottrell was the son of George William Cottrell senior and Florence Helen Cottrell, née Chamberlain. After graduating from Harvard University in 1926, he received a Parker Travel Scholarship, which allowed him to study abroad for a year. In 1930 he was editor of the work Critical Guide: Prepared for the Home study course in World Literature at Columbia University , then assistant professor at the English department at Harvard University, from 1933 to 1942 managing director of the Medieval Academy of America and editor of the academy journal Speculum .

After the United States entered World War II, he was director of biographical records in the Research and Analysis Center in the Strategic Services Bureau in Washington, DC

In 1944 Cottrell returned to Harvard University, where he was assistant to William A. Jackson, the first librarian of the newly founded Houghton Library for rare books and manuscripts, and from 1945 editor of the Harvard Library Bulletin , a position he held until he left In 1960. From 1960 to 1988 he was a research assistant and from 1986 to 1995 honorary curator at the ornithological collection of the Museum of Comparative Zoology . In 1975 he translated Erwin Stresemann's 1951 published work The Development of Ornithology, from Aristotle to the Present under the title Ornithology: From Aristotle to the Present into English. From 1979 to 1987, alongside Ernst Mayr, he was co-editor of the Check-list of Birds of the World , a 16-volume standard work that was initiated in 1931 by James Lee Peters .

Cottrell was married with one daughter.

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SURNAME Cottrell, George William
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cottrell, George William Jr. (full name); Cottrell, G. William
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American editor and ornithologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Detroit , Michigan
DATE OF DEATH May 18, 1995
Place of death Exeter , New Hampshire