Rushton Coulborn

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Arthur Percy Rushton Coulborn (born July 14, 1901 in Alderley Edge , † April 17, 1968 in Bradford (Massachusetts) ) was an American historian of English origin.

life and work

Coulborn studied in Oxford as well as in France, Germany and America. In 1927 or 1928 he became a research assistant to Arnold J. Toynbee . In 1931 Coulborn received his doctorate with his dissertation The Economic and Political Preliminaries of the Crusade of Henry Despenser, Bishop of Norwich, in 1383 . In 1939 he was given a chair in history and prehistory at Atlanta University, where he was dean of the history faculty until 1965.

His main scientific topic was comparative history with the inclusion of ethnology. In doing so, he proceeded from the basic thesis that a preoccupation with history should be based on social and cultural history. A mere consideration of history based on the retelling of larger (above all political) events is not sufficient. A central work is The Origin of civilized societies (1959), which was also translated into German and thematically ties in with his time with Toynbee (see his main work, Der Gang der Weltgeschichte ).

Coulborn's marriage to his first wife, Florence, was divorced in England, and he had a child with her. Since 1937 he was married to Helen McIntosh, who worked as an English lecturer at Atlanta University and with whom he had five children, she died in a car accident in 1962. Coulborn was later married to the German-born sociologist Imogen Seger , who had come to the country in 1953 to study. As can be seen from a thank you by Seger in her thesis from 1957, they had known each other for a longer period of time. Presumably after Coulborn's death she returned to Germany. She donated Coulborn's estate to Princeton University in 1974 .

Fonts (selection)

  • International Security (with Edvard Beneš and Arthur Feiler , editors: Walter HC Laves), The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1939
  • The origin of civilized societies , Princeton University Press, Princeton 1959 (German translation Der Ursprung der Hochkulturen. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1962 (= Urban books 65))

As editor:

  • Feudalism in history , Princeton University Press, Princeton 1956 (with foreword by Alfred Kroeber )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Rushton Coulborn: The origin of the high cultures. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1962 (= Urban books 65).
  2. ^ Date of death according to Rushton Coulborn: The Origin of civilized societies. Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, ISBN 978-0-691-62194-4 , p. XIII. Place of death according to the Annual Report of the American Historical Association for 1968, p. 34 (the date of death is given there as April 16, this article follows the more recent presentation).
  3. ^ William H. McNeill: Arnold J. Toynbee: A Life. Oxford University Press, New York et al. 1989, ISBN 0-19-505863-1 , p. 308.
  4. ↑ Entry on WorldCat .
  5. ^ Rushton Coulborn: The origin of the high cultures , Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1962 u. Wayne M. Bledsoe: The Advent of Civilization. Heath, Lexington (Massachusetts) 1975, ISBN 978-0669947144 , p. 48.
  6. ↑ Coulborn et al. v. Joseph. 14511. Supreme Court of Giorgia. April 14, 1943. Action on foreign judgment. Before judge Paul. S. Etheridge. Fultron Superior Court. January 13, 1943.
  7. ↑ Phylon profiles XXIV: Helen McIntosh Coulborn , Clark Atlanta University, 1963 (Vol. 24), Issue 1, pages 13-19.
  8. ↑ Short biography of Imogen Seger within a biography of Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann , section semester break: women's labor service .
  9. ^ Durkheim and his Critics on the Sociology of Religion at WorldCat .
  10. ^ The Political Opinion , 1995 (vol. 40), p. 296.
  11. ^ Princeton Library - Rushton Coulborn Papers 1939–1970.
personal data
SURNAME Coulborn, Rushton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Coulborn, Arthur Percy Rushton (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian of English descent
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Alderley Edge
DATE OF DEATH April 17, 1968
Place of death Bradford, Massachusetts