William J. Bouwsma

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William J. Bouwsma (born November 22, 1923 in Ann Arbor , Michigan , † March 2, 2004 in Berkeley , California ) was an American historian and university professor whose academic work mainly focused on the Renaissance in Europe .

Life

Bouwsma came from a family with Dutch roots. He grew up in Lincoln , the capital of the US state Nebraska . In 1943 he made his bachelor's degree from Harvard University in Cambridge . He then served for three years with the United States Air Force and received his PhD from Harvard in 1950.

academic career

Bouwsma taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign until 1957, before receiving a call to the Faculty of History at the University of California, Berkeley in 1957 . He stayed there until his retirement, with a break from 1969 to 1971, when he taught at his alma mater . From 1967 to 1969 he was Chancellor of the University of Berkeley, responsible for academic affairs.

Honors

In 1971 Bouwsma was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . Since 1981 he was an elected member of the American Philosophical Society . In 1978 he was President of the American Historical Association , which is based in Washington, DC .

Publications

  • 1951: The Politics of Commynes in: The Journal of Modern History , Vol. 23, No 4.
  • 1957: The Career and Thought of Guillaume Postel (1610–1681) . Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
  • 1959: The Interpretation of Renaissance Humanism . Service Center for Teachers of History, Washington DC, USA.
  • 1968: Venice and the Defense of Republican Liberty: Renaissance Values ​​in the Age of Counter Reformation . University of California Press, Berkeley, California, USA.
  • 1973: The Culture of Renaissance Humanism , reprint. American Historical Association, Richmond, Virginia, USA.
  • 1988: John Calvin. A Sixteenth-Century Portrait . Oxford University Press, New York City, USA, paperback: ISBN 0-19-505951-4 .
  • 1990: A Useable Past: Essays in European Cultural History . University of California Press, Berkeley, California, USA, ISBN 0-520069900 .
  • 2000: The Waning of the Renaissance, 1550-1640 . Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut, USA, ISBN 0-300085370 .
    • 2005: German: The Autumn of the Renaissance, 1550–1640 . diaphanes, Berlin, ISBN 3-93530045X .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Member History: William J. Bouwsma. American Philosophical Society, accessed May 15, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Bouwsma, William J.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bouwsma, William James (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Ann Arbor , Michigan
DATE OF DEATH March 2, 2004
Place of death Berkeley , California