Manning Clark

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Charles Manning Hope Clark AC (born March 3, 1915 in Burwood , Sydney , † May 23, 1991 in Canberra ) was an Australian historian .

Life

Clark was educated at Melbourne Grammar School and the University of Melbourne and Oxford University. He taught at Geelong Grammar School before completing the final part of his career at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra.

Clark's first publication was Select documents in Australian History , which appeared in two volumes. The first volume from 1950 covered the period from 1788 to 1850, the second volume from 1955 contained the history from 1850 to 1900. Clark's most famous work is the six-volume History of Australia , which was published between 1962 and 1987. He was named a member of the Order of Australia in 1975 , the highest civil honor in Australia, and was named Australian of the Year in 1980. In 1988 he was elected as a foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

The historian was politically left-wing and was seen by the conservatives as a central proponent of the so-called black arm band theory of history , a theory of critical historiography. Clark left one of the most understandable and influential papers in the field.

His wife Dymphna (1916-2000), with whom he had six children, was an academic linguist who taught German at the Australian National University. In 1994 she translated and published the New Holland Journal by researcher Carl von Hügel .

more publishments

  • 1957: Sources of Australian History
  • 1960: Meeting Soviet Man
  • 1963: Short History of Australia
  • 1969: Disquiet and Other Stories
  • 1977: In search of Henry Lawson

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter C. (PDF; 1.3 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved October 22, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Clark, Manning
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Clark, Charles Manning Hope
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Burwood , Sydney
DATE OF DEATH May 23, 1991
Place of death Canberra