Richard D. Mandell

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Richard Donald "Dick" Mandell (born October 19, 1929 in Gross Pointe Farms , Michigan ; † June 23, 2013 in Columbia , South Carolina) was an American historian , art collector , long-distance runner and triathlete .

Life

After attending local high school, Mandell attended nearby Wayne State University , where he received his bachelor's degree and then traveled extensively in post-war Europe and then around the world. Because he had early experience with ships through nearby Lake Michigan , he often worked as a seaman on merchant ships. At the end of the Grand Tour, in addition to English, he spoke fluent German, Spanish and French and also had a basic knowledge of other languages. Now he specialized in history and graduated from the University of Colorado with a Master of Arts in 1959 before earning a PhD in European history from the University of California, Berkeley . Berkeley was then considered the leading American university in history and social sciences. In Berkeley he also completed a master’s degree in library science and worked as a bibliographer for the historical seminar. In 1963 he moved to the University of Toronto as Associate Professor of History . In 1966 he moved to a full professorship for modern European history at the University of South Carolina (Columbia), where he remained as a Distinguished Professor until his retirement in 1992.

Scientific work

With his dissertation on the cultural significance of the Paris World Exhibition in 1900 , Mandell was confronted with the 1900 Olympic Games . Based on this, he published a biography of Pierre de Coubertin , who had linked his games with the world exhibition. Just in time for the Olympic Games in Munich, he wrote the Nazi Olympics, his work, translated into many languages, which focused on the American perspective of the Games. Invited by Willi Daume , he attended the Olympic Games in Munich in 1972 and published his diary. With Henning Eichberg , Arnd Krüger , Allen Guttmann , John McClelland and Fredi Chiappelli von Zdekauer , he initiated the international discussion about the beginnings of modern sport, which he summarized in a monograph with his cultural history of sport . With the Professor Game , in which he portrayed physical educators in the context of the university as unacademic and sex-obsessed, he said goodbye to sports history .

athlete

On the occasion of his 60th birthday, Mandell rode his racing bike from New York City to San Francisco (= 4800 m) in 24 days. He then regularly took part in age group competitions in long-distance running , cycling and triathlon . He still holds (April 2013) all running records of South Carolina over 70 and over 75 from 800 m to 5000 m. In 2005 he was age group world champion (75+) in sprint triathlon (swimming 500 yards, bike 20 km, running 5 km in 1:28:38). In 2007 he won the Lake Murray Triathlon (750y-50-km-5 km) as the oldest participant in the 75+.

Art collector

Based on his knowledge of art and architecture at the World Exhibition in 1900 , Mandell in Columbia, SC initially bought single-family houses, later larger houses of this time with good building fabric, had them renovated and sold. He contributed significantly to the gentrification of the capital of South Carolina, where his wife Betty, with whom he had been married since 1952, sat on the city ​​council . During his visits to Europe he began to systematically buy bronze statues ( Art Nouveau ), especially in East Berlin and Prague , and to sell them in New York . He kept particularly beautiful pieces and exhibited them. He combined his interests in art and bicycles as the curator of an exhibition on bicycle design. He toured Guatemala bought / sold handicrafts and exhibited the most beautiful pieces. During his travels in Guatemala in 1999, through contacts with local farmers, he found one of the largest blue jade stones (approx. 300 tons), the gemstone of the Olmecs ever found. He lectured on this a. a. 2003 at the South Carolina Academy of Science.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thestate/obituary.aspx?pid=165523947#sthash.4clxvrit.dpuf
  2. ↑ http://www.scseniorgames.com/a/p/sc-official-state-records-2013.pdf
  3. ↑ https://www.setupevents.com/files/Lake_Murray_Coverage.pdf
  4. ^ Richard D. Mandell Art Nouveau Collection: A Catalog of the Permanent Collection in McKissick Museums 1981
  5. ↑ Local sports historian and cyclist Richard D. Mandell is serving as guest curator for Bicycle Design: Built for Speed. The exhibition will be accompanied by the publication of a fully illustrated, 24-page catalog. This exhibition is organized by the Columbia Museum of Art. Http://www.carolinaarts.com/1200colamus.html
  6. ↑ http://www.bridgemanimages.com/en-US/search?filter_group=all&filter_text=Richard+Mandell&original_filter_text=Richard+Mandell&filter_searchoption_id=4&sort_order=best_relevance&item_num=1 Bridgeman Art Library
  7. ↑ May 12, 2008 NY Times
  8. ↑ http://www.hgs.org/node/3762
  9. ↑ Schedule seventy-sixth annual meeting South Carolina Academy of Science, 2003 ( Memento from September 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ): Lecture by Richard D. Mandell and WE Sharp, Departments of History and Geological Sciences, University of South Carolina: “The Source of Olmec Blue Jade ”.
personal data
SURNAME Mandell, Richard D.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mandell, Richard Donald (full name); Almond, Dick (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian, art collector, long-distance runner, and triathlete
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Gross Pointe Farms , Michigan
DATE OF DEATH June 23, 2013
Place of death Columbia , South Carolina