Jay Luvaas

Morten Jay Luvaas (born January 15, 1927 in Erie County , Pennsylvania , † January 9, 2009 in Williamsburg , Virginia ) was an American military historian and expert on the American Civil War and the history of military theory. He was a professor of military history at the United States Army War College in Carlisle .

Life

Luvaas, whose ancestors immigrated from Norway (his father Morten Luvaas was a well-known composer of choral works), served in the US Navy , attended Allegheny College in Meadville and received his doctorate in military history under Theodore Ropp at Duke University . He then taught as a professor of history at Allegheny College. In 1972 he was visiting professor at the United States Military Academy and in 1982/83 he held the Harold Keith Johnson Chair of Military History at the US Army Military History Institute (USAMHI). He then became a professor at Army War College until his retirement in 1995. In 1997 he became a Distinguished Fellow there .

With his friend General Harold W. Nelson , he was the author and author of several volumes in the US Army War College's Staff Ride series on the Civil War. Both wrote the volumes Gettysburg , Antietam , Fredericksburg / Chancellorsville and were co-authors of the volume on the Battle of Shiloh and the Atlanta Campaign . He also edited books and translations on the military thought of Napoleon and Frederick the Great , writings by the British military historian George Henderson, and a book on the history of military theory in Britain in the 19th and 20th centuries.

In 1959 he published a book on the lessons military theorists in Europe learned from the civil war and on British, French and Prussian military observers in the civil war.

He visited the battlefields of the US Civil War annually, either on guided tours for staff officer courses in the US Army ( Staff Ride ) or as a member of a group of amateur historians ( Army of Cussewago ).

Fonts

• The Military Legacy of the Civil War: The European Inheritance , University of Chicago Press 1959, University Press of Kansas, 1988
• The education of an army: British military thought 1815-1940 , University of Chicago Press 1964
• Editor: George Henderson The Civil War: a soldier's view; a collection of Civil War writings , University of Chicago Press 1958
  • new edition The Civil War / in the writings of Col. GFR Henderson , Da Capo 1996
• Editor and translator Frederick the Great on the Art of War , Da Capo 1999
• Editor and translator Napoleon on the Art of War , New York: Free Press 1999
• with Harold W. Nelson: The US Army War College guide to the Battles of Chancellorsville & Fredericksburg, New York: Perennial Library 1989
• with Harold W. Nelson: The US Army War College guide to the Battle of Gettysburg, Carlisle, Pennsylvania: South Mountain Press 1986, 2nd edition with Leonard Fullenkamp, ​​University Press of Kansas 2012
• with Harold W. Nelson: Guide to the Atlanta campaign: Rocky Face Ridge to Kennesaw Mountain, University Press of Kansas 2008
• Editor with Stephen Bowman, Leonard Fullenkamp: Guide to the Battle of Shiloh, University Press of Kansas 1996
• with Harold W. Nelson: The US Army War College guide to the Battle of Antietam: the Maryland Campaign of 1862, Perennial Library 1987
• Introduction to the new edition by Basil Liddell Hart Sherman: soldier, realist, American , Da Capo 1993
• Generalship, historical perspectives, US Army Center of Military History 2008
• Editor Dear Miss Em: General Eichelberger ’s War in the Pacific, 1942-1945 , Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press 1972

Web links

• Obituary in Civil Warriors
• Find a grave