Theodore Ropp

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Theodore "Ted" Ropp (born May 22, 1911 in Hollywood , Illinois , † December 2, 2000 in Durham , North Carolina ) was an American military historian and military theorist. He was a professor at Duke University .

Ropp's father was an engineer from Austria . Ropp studied at Oberlin College with a bachelor's degree summa cum laude in 1934 and at Harvard University with a master's degree in history in 1935 and a doctorate under William L. Langer in 1937 ( The development of a modern navy: French naval policy, 1871– 1904 ). He spent a year in Paris for his dissertation. He was then an instructor at Harvard and from 1938 at Duke University, where he became professor in 1959 and retired in 1980.

In 1972/73 he was the first visiting professor ( Harold Keith Johnson Chair of Military History ) of the Military History Research Collection at the US Army War College Library. Before that he was an advisor to the Army Historical Advisory Committee (1962–65, 1969–72). In 1962/63 he was Ernest J. King Professor of Maritime History at the US Naval War College. In 1970 he gave the Harmon Memorial Lecture in Military History at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. In 1976/77 he was visiting professor of military history at the United States Military Academy (West Point). He was also visiting professor at the National University of Singapore (1980), at the Royal Military College in Duntroon in Australia, at the University of New South Wales and at the University of North Carolina .

Ropp was one of the first academic (civil) military historians in the USA. His book War in the Modern Age (first 1959) was a standard work at US military and naval academies.

He was married to Elizabeth Chapman (whom he met in Oberlin) and had three sons. Ropp spoke German, French, Italian and Afrikaans. In 1959/60 he was a Fellow of the Social Science Research Council.

In 1991 he received the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize .

Fonts

  • Continental Doctrines of Seapower in Edward M. Earle (Ed.), Makers of Modern Strategy , Princeton University Press, 1943
  • Editor with Harold T. Parker: Historical Background of the World Today: A Synopsis , Rinehart 1947
  • Was in the Modern World , Duke University Press, 1959, 2nd edition, Collier, 1962, 3rd edition, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000
  • Editor with David H. Pinkney: Festschrift for Frederick B. Artz , Duke University Press, 1964
  • The Historical Development of Contemporary Strategy , US Air Force Academy, 1970
  • History of War , Hamburg Press, 1984
  • The Development of a Modern Navy: French Naval Policy, 1871-1904 (Stephen S. Roberts editor), Naval Institute Press, 1987

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