John Franklin Jameson

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John Franklin Jameson (born September 19, 1859 in Boston , Massachusetts , † September 28, 1937 in Washington, DC ) was an American historian , university professor and librarian .

biography

After attending school, he first studied at Amherst College , where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in 1879 . He then completed postgraduate studies at Johns Hopkins University in 1882 with a Philosophiae Doctor (Ph.D.) and then took up a position as a professor there. In 1884 he was a co-founder of the American Historical Association .

In 1888 he accepted a position as professor at the renowned Brown University in Providence and taught there until 1901. During this time, between 1895 and 1901, he was also the managing editor of the journal The American Historical Review . He was then between 1901 and 1905 professor at the University of Chicago .

After giving up this teaching activity, he became director of historical research at the Carnegie Institution of Washington in 1905 and continued this position until 1928. At the same time he was again executive editor of the American Historical Review from 1905 to 1928 . He was also president of the American Historical Association from 1907 to 1908 . In 1920 he was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society .

Most recently, Jameson was head of the manuscript department of the Library of Congress between 1928 and his death in 1937 .

In addition to his teaching and research work, he was also the author of several historical textbooks, most of which dealt with the history of the United States , such as Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period , Narratives of New Netherland, 1609-1664 , Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 or New Netherland . His major publications include:

  • A History of Historical Writing in America (1891)
  • Dictionary of United States History (1894)
  • The American Revolution Considered as a Social Movement (1926)

Web links

  • J. Franklin Jameson in the nndb (English)
  • Waldo Gifford Leland: John Franklin Jameson . In: Society of American Archivists (Ed.): The American Archivist . Vol. 19, No. 3 , July 1956, p. 195-201 , JSTOR : 40289482 (English).
  • Morey Rothberg: John Franklin Jameson and the International Historical Community . In: The History Teacher . Vol. 26, No. 4 , August 1993, p. 449-457 , doi : 10.2307 / 494468 , JSTOR : 494468 (English).
  • John Franklin Jameson: John Franklin Jameson and the Development of Humanistic Scholarship in America: The Carnegie Institution of Washington and the Library of Congress, 1905–1937 . Ed .: Morey Rothberg, Jacqueline Anne Goggin (=  John Franklin Jameson and the Development of Humanistic Scholarship in America . Volume 3 ). University of Georgia Press, Athens 2000, ISBN 0-8203-2039-0 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Member History: J. Franklin Jameson. American Philosophical Society, accessed October 12, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Books by John Franklin Jameson (Project Gutenberg)
personal data
SURNAME Jameson, John Franklin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 19, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Boston , Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH September 28, 1937
Place of death Washington, DC