biography
| name: |
Schurman, Jacob (Gould)
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pronunciation:
[shoorman]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1854–1942)
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| biography:
| Educator, philosopher, and diplomat, born in Freetown, Prince Edward I, Canada. He studied in Britain and Germany before he went to teach philosophy at Cornell University (1886), where he promoted an idealistic approach that applied philosophy to all of human experience. In 1892 he began the Philosophical Review, the first scholarly journal of philosophy in the USA. As president of Cornell (1892–1920), he turned it from a small private college into a major university with public as well as private segments. He served as chairman of a US commission that studied conditions in the newly acquired Philippines (1899) and he personally advocated independence. Later, he served as ambassador to Greece and Montenegro (1912–13), China (1921–5), and Germany (1925–30). |
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