John Burgess

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John W. Burgess

John William Burgess (born August 26, 1844 in Giles County (Tennessee) , †  January 13, 1931 in Brookline (Massachusetts) ) was an American political scientist , historian and lawyer.

Career

Burgess fought in the Civil War in 1862/63 on the side of the northern states (most recently as a lieutenant). From 1864 to 1867 he studied law at Amherst College and was admitted to the Massachusetts bar in 1869, but did not practice, but became a teacher at Knox College. In 1871/72 he studied in Germany , at the universities in Göttingen, Leipzig and Berlin. There he was a student of Johann Gustav Droysen , Wilhelm Roscher , Theodor Mommsen and Rudolf von Gneist . From 1873 to 1876 he was a history and political science teacher at Amherst College.

From 1876 to 1912 he taught political science, history and international law at Columbia University in New York , from 1896 only political science and constitutional law. In 1890 he became dean for political science. In 1906 he was Roosevelt Professor at the University of Berlin and in the summer semester of 1907 he gave a guest lecture at the University of Leipzig . In 1925 he moved to Newport.

The political science faculty he founded at Columbia University in 1880 with Nicholas Murray Butler was the first such faculty in the United States and an essential step in turning Columbia College into a university. He is considered the father of political science in the USA.

In the first years of the First World War he took a pro-German stance and tried to convince the American public in several books.

In 1886 he founded the journal Political Science Quarterly .

In 1869 he married Augusta Thayer Jones and in 1885 Ruth Payne Jewett, with whom he had a son.

Fonts (selection)

  • His three-volume American story:
  • Truth about Germany: Facts about the war , New York City 1914
  • The Causes of the European Conflict , Chicago 1914
  • The European war. Its causes, its goals and its likely outcomes. Translated into German by Max Iklé. Leipzig: Hirzel 1915. (Table of contents of the volume)
    • English original: The European war of 1914; its, purposes, and probable causes results , Chicago 1915
  • American's relations to the great war , Chicago 1916
  • Political science and comparative constitutional law , Boston 1890/91, 1898, Buffalo 2000
  • The Administration of President Hayes , New York 1916 (Larwell Lectures 1915)
  • Recent changes in American constitutional theory , New York 1923
  • The sanctity of law, in what does it consist? The story of man's attainment of law and order from Roman times to the present , New York 1928
  • Reminiscences of an American Scholar , 1934 (autobiography)
  • The foundations of political science , New York 1933 (excerpts from his Political Science and comparative constitutional law )

literature

  • Ralph Gordon Hoxie (Editor) A history of the faculty of Political Science , Columbia University 1955
  • RG Hoxie John W. Burgess. American Scholar , Columbia University 1950
  • Bernard E. Brown American Conservatives: The Political Thought of Francis Lieber and John W. Burgess , New York 1951.
  • Bert James Loewenberg American History in American Thought: Christopher Columbus to Henry Adams , New York 1972,
  • Bert James Loeweenberg John William Burgess, the Scientific Method, and the Hegelian Philosophy of History , in: Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Volume 42, 1955, pp. 490-509
  • John Braeman John W. Burgess , in: Dictionary of Literary Biography, Ann Arbor, Volume 47, 1983, pp. 69-75.

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personal data
SURNAME Burgess, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Burgess, John William (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American political scientist, historian, and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Giles County, Tennessee
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 1931
Place of death Brookline (Massachusetts)