biography
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Bouwsma, William J(ames)
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pronunciation:
[bowzma]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1923– )
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| biography:
| Historian, born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. He studied at Harvard University (1950 PhD), then taught at the University of Illinois (1950–6), the University of California, Berkeley (1956–69), where he was also department chairman and academic vice-chancellor, and Harvard (1969–71), returning to Berkeley (1971–91) as department chairman and professor emeritus (1991). His influential books on Renaissance history include Culture of Renaissance Humanism (1973) and A Usable Past (1990). |
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