William Robert Shepherd
William Robert Shepherd (born June 12, 1871 in Charleston , South Carolina ; died June 7, 1934 in Berlin ) was an American historian and historical cartographer .
William Robert Shepherd studied at the University of Columbia , where he made 1893 a master's degree and in 1896 with a thesis on the colonial Pennsylvania at Herbert L. Osgood for Ph.D. received his doctorate . For his work with the dissertation he received a prize lecturer. Shepherd then continued his studies at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin and Madrid . Returned to the United States in 1902, he became a lecturer at Columbia University. On behalf of the Carnegie Institution of Washington and initiated by John Franklin Jameson, in 1905 he made archival material on the history of America in Spain accessible. For the Hispanic Society of America and other institutions, he traveled to Buenos Aires in 1907 to visit museums and libraries.
After the end of the First World War , he lectured at the universities of Madrid , Cambridge , London , Manchester , Durham , Edinburgh , Berlin and Vienna as part of an extensive European tour . In Vienna in 1924 he became the first American guest professor after the war and in Austria he received the gold medal for services to the Republic of Austria . In the same year he became Seth Low professor of history at Columbia University and taught there until his death during a lecture tour in Berlin in 1934.
Shepherd's research focused on two areas: the history of Latin America and the history of European expansion . His commitment and knowledge in these areas led him to various positions. In 1908/09 he was the United States' delegate at the first Pan-American Science Congress in Santiago de Chile , and in 1910 he was secretary of the US delegation at the fourth International Conference of American States in Buenos Aires . In 1915 and 1920 he took part in the Pan-American financial conferences.
William Robert Shepherd was a member of numerous learned societies and academies - including the Spanish Real Academia de la Historia - and received numerous honors. He was Commander of the Orden de Isabel la Católica and an honorary doctorate from the University of Chile (1910), which also made him an honorary professor , the University of South Carolina (1930) and the University of Madrid (1934).
Despite his achievements and the honors received, only one work is associated with his name today: the Historical Atlas published in 1911 and reissued in 1923 and 1926 .
Publications (selection)
- History of Proprietary Government in Pennsylvania (= Columbia Studies in the Social Sciences. Volume 6). Columbia University, New York City 1896 ( digitized ).
- Guide to the Materials for the History of the United States in Spanish Archives. Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, DC 1907 ( digitized ).
- Historical Atlas. Henry Holt and Company, New York City 1911 ( digitized ).
- Latin America. Henry Holt and Company, New York City 1914 ( digitized ).
- The Hispanic Nations of the New World. A Chronicle of Our Southern Neighbors. Yale University Press, New Haven 1919 ( digitized ).
- The story of New Amsterdam. Knopf, New York City 1926 ( digitized ).
literature
- Helen Delpar: Looking South. The Evolution of Latin Americanist Scholarship in the United States, 1850-1975. The University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa, Ala. 2008, ISBN 0817354646 , p. 35 f.
- Cyrus H. Peak: William Robert Shepherd. In: The Open Court. Volume 48, 1934, pp. 193-195 ( PDF ).
Web links
- William Robert Shepherd . In: Encyclopædia Britannica online (accessed November 20, 2016)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Shepherd, William Robert |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Shepherd, William R .; Shepherd, William |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 12, 1871 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Charleston |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 7, 1934 |
| Place of death | Berlin |