Leonidas E. Hill

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Leonidas Edwin "Ted" Hill (born September 29, 1934 in Newport (Rhode Island) , † April 9, 2012 ) was an American historian and university professor .

Life

Leonidas Edwin Hill was the son of Josephine Fransioli and Leonidas Edwin Hill Jr. (August 1872 in Industry (Texas) ). In 1943, at the age of nine, he moved to Everett, Washington . Until 1955 he was active as a competitive skier in slalom and giant slalom. His greatest achievement was winning the 1955 Northern Divisional Championship for downhill, slalom and alpine events.

While at the University of Oklahoma , he met his first wife, Lorraine. They married in 1961 and moved to Vancouver . A daughter was born in April 1965. In 1965 the family stayed in Lindau on Lake Constance in Germany. In May 1970 a son was born. In 1971 and 1972 they lived in Freiburg im Breisgau .

He later coached the University of British Columbia ski team. He was a member of the Alta Lake Sports Club in Whistler, which maintained cross-country skiing trails in the early 1980s. He was also an alpinist and climbed many local peaks in Washington state with his brother Thomas in his twenties.

Career

He devoted himself to bird watching and studied medicine at the University of Washington for two years , after which he received a bachelor's and master's degree in history from the University of Washington . He became a lecturer at Wellesley College , then at Dartmouth, and then taught at the University of Oklahoma

In 1963 he received his Ph.D. from Harvard University with German Diplomacy on the Eve of World II. PhD.

In 1965 Marianne von Graevenitz (1889–1983) left him a collection of Ernst von Weizsäcker's private documents . Hill published, inter alia, The Weizsäcker Papers, 1900–1932 .

From 1963 to 1997 he was a professor of history at the University of British Columbia .

He died of complications from non-Hodgkin lymphoma .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ United States. Department of State. External Research Division, Western Europe, p. 27
  2. ↑ Hans-Joachim Noack, The Weizsäcker. A German family, [1]
  3. ^ Leonidas E. Hill, editor. The Weizsäcker Papers, 1900–1932. Berlin: Ullstein. 1982 , academic.oup.com, accessed June 27, 2020
  4. ^ University of British Columbia , [2]
personal data
SURNAME Hill, Leonidas E.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hill, Leonidas Edwin; Ted
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Newport (Rhode Island)
DATE OF DEATH April 9, 2012