Raymond Sunday
Raymond James Sontag (born October 2, 1897 in Chicago , † October 27, 1972 ) was an American historian.
Sontag studied at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a bachelor's degree (BS) in 1920 and a Magister Artium in 1921 and received his doctorate in 1924 at the University of Pennsylvania . He was Professor of History at Princeton University (Henry Charles Lea Professor) for seventeen years from 1924 , where he was also chairman of the Faculty of History, before becoming Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of European History at the University of California, Berkeley , in 1941 .
He was mainly concerned with the history of diplomacy in the 19th and 20th centuries. One of his main works is a study of German-English relations in the second half of the 19th century.
From 1946 to 1949 he was the American publisher of the documents confiscated by the Allies from the German Foreign Ministry, which were published as Documents on German Policy 1918-1945 (on the English page by John Wheeler-Bennett ), including a documentation volume Nazi-Soviet Relations 1939 -1941 (with James Stuart Beddie ). From 1951 to 1953 he was on the Advisory Board (Board of National Estimates) of the CIA and was also an adviser to the CIA.
He has held two honorary doctorates from the University of California, Marquette, and University of Notre Dame, a member of the American Philosophical Society, and President of the Pacific Division of the American Historical Association, and President of the American Catholic Historical Association.
He was active in the Catholic Church and was knighted by the Pope in 1962.
His students included the US diplomat George F. Kennan and the historian Gordon A. Craig .
Fonts
- with Dana Carleton Munro: The Middle Ages 395-1500, New York, London: The Century 1921, Archives
- European Diplomatic History, 1871-1932, New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts 1933, Archives
- Germany and England: Background of Conflict, 1848–1894, New York: Appleton-Century 1938
- A Broken World, 1919–1939, Harper Collins 1971 (in the series The Rise of Modern Europe)
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sunday, Raymond |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sontag, Raymond James (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 2, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chicago |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 27, 1972 |