biography
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| (1907– )
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| biography:
| Educator, cultural critic, and writer, born in Créteil, Paris, France. Arriving in the USA in 1920, he studied at Columbia University (1932 PhD), joined the faculty of Columbia (1927), and remained there as a professor of history and dean (emeritus 1967). A man of wide-ranging interests, his major professional areas were 19th-c European cultural history, music, and the history of ideas. His many published works, most aimed at a broader public than his professional colleagues, include Teacher in America (1945), Berlioz and the Romantic Century (1950), Music in American Life (1956), A Catalogue of Crime (1971), and Clio and the Doctors (1974). He served as a consultant or adviser on various publishing projects and was a firm, if sometimes cantankerous, upholder of traditional standards of language usage and educational approaches. He never hesitated to write a letter to the editor, an article, or a book attacking what he regarded as deplorable intellectual trends, not only within his own discipline of history but also in science, the arts, and the publishing world. |
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