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Louis Reichenthal Gottschalk (February 21, 1899 in Brooklyn – June 23, 1975 in Chicago〔.〕) was an American historian, an expert on Lafayette and the French Revolution. He taught for many years at the University of Chicago, where he was the Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor of History.〔. Review of Gottschalk and Maddox, ''Laffayette in the French Revolution: Through the October Days'', University of Chicago Press, 1969.〕 ==Biography== Gottschalk was the sixth of eight children of Morris and Anna Krystal Gottschalk, Jewish immigrants to Brooklyn from Poland.〔 He graduated from Cornell University with an A.B. in 1919, A.M. in 1920, and the Ph.D. in 1921, under the supervision of Carl L. Becker.〔 He taught briefly at the University of Illinois,〔〔 and joined the University of Louisville faculty in 1923,〔〔〔(''The University of Louisville'' ), Dwayne Cox, William James Morison, University Press of Kentucky, 1999, ISBN 978-0-8131-2142-0〕〔(''The encyclopedia of Louisville'' ), Volume 2000, John E. Kleber〕 but resigned in protest in 1927 after a friend and colleague in the history department was fired as part of an attempt by the university administration to abolish tenure.〔 He joined the University of Chicago in 1927, was promoted to full professor in 1935, and chaired the history department from 1937 to 1942.〔 He was given his endowed chair, the Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professorship of History, in 1959.〔 In 1965, facing forced retirement from Chicago, he moved again to the University of Illinois at Chicago so that he could continue teaching.〔〔 From 1929 to 1943, he served as assistant editor of the ''Journal of Modern History''; for three years following, he was acting editor.〔 He was president of the American Historical Association in 1953〔(Gottschalk's presidential address ), AHA. Retrieved 2010-08-04.〕 and the second president of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. He met poet Laura Riding, then known by her maiden name, Laura Reichenthal, while she was a student at Cornell and he was a graduate assistant there. They married on November 2, 1920, and he took her last name as his middle name. However, they divorced in 1925.〔 He later married Fruma Kasden, in 1930; they had two sons.〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Louis R. Gottschalk」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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