James Stuart Beddie
James Stuart Beddie (born July 29, 1902 in St. Paul (Minnesota) , † October 23, 1988 in Santa Barbara (California) ) was an American historian.
Beddie attended school in St. Paul and studied history and classical philology at Macalister College in his hometown and at the University of Minnesota with a bachelor's degree in 1922. He was then a teacher before continuing his studies at Harvard University , where he worked alongside history and classical languages also studied German. In 1928 he received his doctorate with a dissertation in medieval history ( Libraries in the Twelfth Century: Their Catalogs and Contents ). He was then a professor at Upper Iowa University in Fayette, Iowa and at Dakota State Teachers College in Minot. In 1931 he visited Europe and especially Germany on a scholarship to research medieval libraries and their catalogs, but there he began to be interested in contemporary history.
On his return to America, which was marked by the Great Depression, he taught again at smaller colleges and in 1936 took a position as a historian at the US State Department, where he was involved in the publication of documents on foreign policy, including the 1919 Paris Peace Conference. From 1942 he worked for the Office of Naval Intelligence in Washington DC, England and in occupied Germany. In 1948 he was editor of the documentation volume Nazi-Soviet Relations 1939-1941 with Raymond Sontag . In 1953 he published the United Nations Human Rights Report on the United States for 1951. From 1956 to 1958 he was the American liaison officer for the English German Document in Whaddon Hall and from 1959 to 1962 he headed the Berlin Document Center . In the 1950s he was also on leave from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for a year to study the language, history and culture of Sweden and Norway in Oslo and Stockholm (his mother had Swedish ancestors).
In 1962 he retired from the State Department and taught at various colleges (Iowa Wesleyan, Westminster College (Pennsylvania), Fort Lewis State College (Durango, Colorado)) until 1968 before moving to Santa Barbara.
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- ↑ Published by Houghton Mifflin, 1929
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Beddie, James Stuart |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 29, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Paul, Minnesota |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 23, 1988 |
| Place of death | Santa Barbara (California) |