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Ferdinand Schevill

1868 – 1954

American historian

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Lived 1868 – 1954 (aged 85–86). Ferdinand Schevill was an American historian.

Ferdinand Schevill (1868– December 10, 1954, Tucson, Arizona) was an American historian.

He graduated from Yale University in 1889 and finished his PhD at Freiburg in 1892. Schevill retired in 1924. In 1930 he reentered the University in the Humanities General Course of general education. He retired five years later to finish The History of Florence (1936).

Schevill continued to research, and in his eightieth year he went from the University of Chicago to lecture in Frankfurt. During this period, Schevill specialized in the historiographies of famous writers from the Renaissance.

He was brother-in-law to the sculptor Karl Bitter.

Partial Bibliography

Germany and the Peace of Europe (1914) The Rise and Progress of Democracy (1915) Karl Bitter: A Biography (1917) A History of Europe: From the Reformation to the Present Day (1925) The First Century of Italian Humanism (1928) — reprinted as Medieval and Renaissance Florence (1965) The Great Elector (1947) The Medici (1949) Six Historians (The University of Chicago Press, 1956)

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1868, Cincinnati
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Died
1954, Tucson
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Who was Ferdinand Schevill?

American historian

When was Ferdinand Schevill born?

Ferdinand Schevill was born in 1868 in Cincinnati.

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Ferdinand Schevill died in 1954 in Tucson.

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Ferdinand Schevill was a historian.

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Ferdinand Schevill was American.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Ferdinand Schevill

· Wikidata: Q5443896

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