Herbert Baxter Adams
Herbert Baxter Adams (born April 16, 1850 in Shutesbury , Massachusetts , † July 30, 1901 in Amherst , Massachusetts) was an American historian and university professor . He is considered to be the founder of the Scientific School of American Historians, transferring methods of German history to the USA and having a school education.
Life
After attending the Phillips Exeter Academy , he studied at Amherst College from 1868 and graduated in 1872. He then continued his studies of philosophy, history and politics in Germany at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg , where he obtained a Philosophiae Doctor (Ph.D.) summa cum laude in 1876 . In Heidelberg he attended Johann Bluntschli's seminar for comparative constitutional history .
On his return to the United States , he became a lecturer in 1876 and a professor of history , politics and economics at Johns Hopkins University in 1883 , and continued to teach until his death in 1901. After the founding of the American Historical Association in 1884, he also became its secretary and held that position until 1900.
In addition to his academic work, he was also the author of several historical books.
The Herbert Baxter Adams Prize of the American Historical Association is named after him and has been awarded annually to authors of new books on the history of Europe since 1905 .
He was married to Marian Hooper since 1872, who committed suicide in 1885.
Fonts
- Germanic Origin of New England Towns . In: Johns Hopkins University Studies in History and Political Science , Volume 1, No. 2, 1883
- Maryland 's Influence in Founding a National Commonwealth (1877)
- Life and Writings of Jared Sparks (1893)
- with Henry Wood: Columbus and his discovery of America , Johns Hopkins Press 1892, New York 1971
- Editor with Richard Waterman Monographs on American Social Economics , Boston, from 1900
- Methods of teaching history , Boston 1883
- Methods of historical study , 1884
- Notes on the literature of charities , Baltimore 1887
- Study and teaching of history , 1898
- The teaching of history , Annual Report American Historical Association for the Year 1896, Washington 1897, pp. 243-263
- Historical scholarship in the United States, 1876-1901 , Johns Hopkins Press 1938
- The Study of history in American colleges and universities , Washington 1887
- Jared Sparks and Alexis de Tocqueville , Johns Hopkins Press 1898
- Is history past politics? Baltimore 1895
- Norman constables in America , 1883
- Saxon-tithing men in America , 1883
- Public educational work in Baltimore , Johns Hopkins Press 1899
- Thomas Jefferson and the University of Virginia , 1888
- Work among working women in Baltimore. A social study , Baltimore 1889
- Books by Herbert Baxter Adams digitized in the Internet Archive
Web links
- Herbert Baxter Adams in nndb (English)
- Classics of historical science at historicum.net
- Famous Americans
- Herbert B. Adams, tributes of friends . With a bibliography of the Department of History, Politics and Economics of the Johns Hopkins University, 1876–1901. by Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Published 1902
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Adams, Herbert Baxter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American historian and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 16, 1850 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Shutesbury , Massachusetts |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 30, 1901 |
| Place of death | Amherst , Massachusetts |