biography
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Taylor, Henry Osborn
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| lived:
| (1856–1941)
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| biography:
| Historian, born in New York City, New York, USA. He studied American history under Henry Adams at Harvard University (1874), and law at Columbia University and Leipzig. His Treatise on the Law of Private Corporations (1884) became a standard text. Turning from legal theory to the evolution of human ideals, his Mediaeval Mind (1911) was considered a classic of intellectual history. In later years he wrote primarily about philosophy. |
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