Robert Middlekauff
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Robert Middlekauff | |
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| 5th Director of the Huntington Library | |
| In office September 1, 1983 – December 31, 1987 | |
| Preceded by | James Thorpe |
| Succeeded by | Robert Skotheim Martin Ridge (interim) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | July 5, 1929 |
| Died | March 10, 2021 (aged 91) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | History |
Sub-discipline | Colonial and early US history |
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Robert Lawrence Middlekauff (July 5, 1929 – March 10, 2021) was a professor of colonial and early United States history at the University of California, Berkeley.[1]
Career
[edit]In 1983, Middlekauff became the Director[a] of Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California,[2][3] until 1987.[4][5] He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1984.[6] In 1987, Middlekauff became a professor at UC Berkeley.[7]
Middlekauff is best known for The Glorious Cause, a history of the American Revolutionary War, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1983.[8] He was the Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professor of American History in 1996–97. In 1997, he was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1997.[9]
Personal life
[edit]He was born in Yakima, Washington.[8] Middlekauff died at the age of 91 from complications of a stroke on March 10, 2021, in Pleasanton, California.[8][10]
See also
[edit]Bibliography
[edit]- Ancients and Axioms: Secondary Education in Eighteenth-Century New England (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1963).
- The Mathers: Three Generations of Puritan Intellectuals, 1596-1728, winner of the Bancroft Prize. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971) reprinted in paperback (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999).
- The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763–1789 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982, paperback ed., 1986) (Revised and Expanded Edition, 2005, ISBN 978-0-19-516247-9).
- Benjamin Franklin and His Enemies (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996; paperback ed., 1998).
References
[edit]- ↑ "Robert L. Middlekauff". history.berkeley.edu. Retrieved August 3, 2020.
- ↑ Isenberg, Barbara (March 28, 1983). "Huntington Names New Director". Los Angeles Times. p. 33.
Historian Robert Middlekauff will become director of the Huntington Library, Art Gallery and Botanical Gardens on Sept. 1, the Huntington is expected to announce today. Middlekauff, 53, is the Margaret Byrne Professor of American History and provost and dean of the College of Letters and Science at UC Berkeley. He succeeds James Thorpe, 67, Huntington director since 1966, who is retiring.
- ↑ Brenson, Michael (May 6, 1983). "Art People; Dealers honor art historian". The New York Times. p. C25.
Middlekauff Named Head Of Huntington Library. Robert Middlekauff has been appointed director of the Huntington Library, Art Gallery and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, Calif., effective Sept. 1. Mr. Middlekauff is the Margaret Byrne Professor of American History and provost and dean of the College of Letters and Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He takes over the Huntington, known for its research library of American and English history and literature and its collection of 18th- and 19th-century English paintings, at a time when the private, nonprofit institution is attracting ever larger numbers of visitors and scholars.
- ↑ "FIRST OFF...". Los Angeles Times. January 27, 1987.
Robert Middlekauff resigned from the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens after four years as its director. Effective Jan. 1, 1988, he will become a professor of history at UC Berkeley, where he previously spent 21 years as a professor and administrator.
- ↑ "Expanding the Fellowship". huntington.org. April 19, 2012. Retrieved August 3, 2020.
- ↑ "Robert Lawrence Middlekauff". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved December 10, 2021.
- ↑ MUCHNIC, SUZANNE (January 30, 1988). "Skotheim to Direct Huntington Complex". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved August 3, 2020.
- 1 2 3 Dixler, Elsa (September 1, 2021). "Robert Middlekauff, Historian of Washington and His War, Dies at 91". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved September 2, 2021.
- ↑ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved December 10, 2021.
- ↑ Pokotylo, Katia (April 9, 2021). "Robert Middlekauff, professor emeritus of American history, dies at age 91". The Daily Californian. Retrieved April 25, 2021.
Notes
[edit]- ↑ The title for the Huntington Library chief executive was changed from "Director" to "President" in 1988.
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Categories:
- 20th-century American historians
- 21st-century American historians
- Historians of the American Revolution
- Historians of the Thirteen Colonies
- Historians of New England
- Historians from California
- University of California, Berkeley faculty
- Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professors of American History
- People associated with the Huntington Library
- Members of the American Philosophical Society
- Bancroft Prize winners
- 1929 births
- 2021 deaths