Abbott Lawrence Lowell

Abbott Lawrence Lowell ( born December 13, 1856 in Boston, Massachusetts, † January 6, 1943 ibid ) was a non-fiction author, a lawyer and political scientist, as well as president of the Harvard University of 1909 until 1933.

Life

Abbott Lowell came from one of the most prestigious and richest patrician families of Boston. He was the brother of the renowned astronomer Percival Lowell, the writer and women's rights activist Amy Lowell and the pioneer of prenatal pediatric nursing Elizabeth Lowell Putnam ( 1862-1935 ). Abbott Lawrence Rotch His cousin founded the Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory.

He completed his bachelor's degree from Harvard College with honors in mathematics in 1877. His Master of Arts he put at the Harvard Law School in 1880 before successfully. In the following years until 1897, he led, together with his cousin Francis Cabot Lowell, a law firm. Both were authors of the stock corporation law nonfiction book Transfer of Stock in Corporations (1884 ).

Services

In 1897 he became a lecturer in 1898 and professor at Harvard University. Eleven years later he was elected president of the university, a post which he was to lead for 24 years successfully. In the same year 1909 he was elected head of the American Political Science Association. On scientific nonfiction, he submitted: Essays on Government (1889 ), Governments and Parties in Continental Europe ( 2 volumes, 1896), Colonial Civil Service ( 1900) and The Government of England ( 2 volumes, 1908).

At the same time he was in 1900 succeeded his father, Augustus Lowell, Chief Financial Officer of the Lowell Institute in Boston.

As his main achievements as a university president, the refurbishment of the House system apply ( construction of student dormitories on campus) and the co-founding of the Harvard Society of Fellows. In more recent historical studies and press articles Lowell has been criticized as time- adjusted typical anti-Semitic.