biography
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Haskins, Charles Homer
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1870–1937)
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| biography:
| Mediaevalist and historian, born in Meadville, Pennsylvania, USA. One of the leading mediaevalists of his generation, he shed light on Norman contributions to mediaeval English government and on the impact of Greek and Arabic scientific materials on Western Europe. A noted teacher as well as scholar, he taught longest at Harvard University (1902–28). During World War 1 he was a member of ‘the Inquiry’, where he provided intelligence on Germany and later participated in the Paris Peace Conference (1918–19). A progressively severe case of paralysis agitans forced him to retire from teaching in 1931. |
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