James Burrill Angell

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James Burrill Angell (1903)

James Burrill Angell (born January 7, 1829 in Scituate , Providence County , Rhode Island , † April 1, 1916 in Ann Arbor , Michigan ) was an American linguist , historian , university president, journalist and diplomat .

Angell graduated from Brown University in Providence in 1849 as the best in his class. He initially worked as a civil engineer and traveled with Rowland Hazard II to the southern United States , France , Italy and Austria .

At Brown University, James B. Angell held a professorship in modern languages and literature from 1853 to 1860 . He also wrote editorials for the Providence Journal . From 1860 to 1866 Angell was the editor of the newspaper, succeeding Henry B. Anthony , who had been elected to the United States Senate in 1858 . Angell was President of the University of Vermont from 1866 to 1871 , succeeding Joseph Torrey . Here he gave lectures in history , rhetoric and German .

With his presidency of the University of Michigan from 1871 to 1909, he was the president of that university with the longest tenure. Significant improvements are teaching at the University of Michigan back to him, for example, the introduction of licensing requirements for medical studies, the establishment of the first Chair for teaching (science and art of teaching) in the United States and the first teaching assignment (instruction) for Forestry . He established graduate schools in dentistry , pharmacy , nursing , musicology , architecture and urban planning . In his early days at the University of Michigan, he himself gave lectures on the history of diplomacy .

Angell interrupted his presidency several times to serve as United States envoy. From 1880 to 1881 he was the successor of George Frederick Seward as the US Ambassador to China; his successor was from 1882 John Russell Young . In China, Angell negotiated a treaty to limit immigration from China in 1880, the Angell Treaty , which was a restriction of the Burlingame Treaty of 1868. In 1896/1897 James B. Angell was a member of the Canadian-American Deep Waterways Commission . From 1897 to 1898 he was the successor of Alexander Watkins Terrell as the US ambassador to the Sublime Porte (Ottoman Empire); his successor in turn was Oscar Solomon Straus .

In 1868 Angell was elected a member (Associate Fellow) of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , in 1889 a member of the American Philosophical Society . Angell was one of the founding members of the American Historical Association in 1884 and served as its president in 1892/1893.

1855 married James Burrill Angell and Sarah S. Caswell (1831-1903), the daughter of Alexis Caswell , a clergyman and later President of Brown University. The couple had three children. Her older son Alexis Caswell Angell (1857-1932) was a federal judge , the daughter Lois Thompson Angell (1863-1941) married the historian and future Pulitzer Prize winner Andrew C. McLaughlin (1861-1947), the younger son, James Rowland Angell (1869–1949) was President of Yale University . James B. Angell's grave is in Forest Hill Cemetery in Ann Arbor.

Fonts

  • Handbook of French literature; historical, biographical, and critical. Rev. and ed. By James B. Angell. Philadelphia, H. Cowperthwait & co., 1857.
  • The Diplomacy of the United States. Boston, New York, 1884-89.
  • Inadequate recognition of diplomatists by historians. Washington, 1894.
  • Honesty. Ann Arbor, Mich .: University of Michigan, 1906.
  • The age of quickened conscience. Ann Arbor, Mich., The University, 1908.
  • The reminiscences of James Burrill Angell. New York [etc.] Longmans, Green, and Co., 1912.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b James B. Angell Biography - AHA. In: historians.org. June 30, 2016, accessed July 8, 2017 .
  2. ↑ a b James Burrill Angell. In: history.state.gov. Retrieved July 8, 2017 .
  3. ↑ China - Chiefs of Mission. In: history.state.gov. Retrieved July 8, 2017 .
  4. ^ Angell Treaty of 1880. In: immigrationtounitedstates.org. Retrieved July 8, 2017 .
  5. ^ Turkey - Chiefs of Mission. In: history.state.gov. Retrieved July 8, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present (PDF, 1.1 MB) at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org); Retrieved July 8, 2017.
  7. ^ Member History of the American Philosophical Society (amphilsoc.org); Retrieved July 8, 2017.
  8. ↑ James Burrill Angell in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved July 8, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Angell, James Burrill
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Angell, James B.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American linguist, historian, university president, journalist, and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1829
PLACE OF BIRTH Scituate , Rhode Island
DATE OF DEATH April 1, 1916
Place of death Ann Arbor , Michigan