Arthur Marder

Arthur Jacob Marder ( born March 8, 1910 in Boston, Massachusetts, † December 25, 1980 in Santa Barbara, California ) was an American historian. Marder was primarily known for his work on the history of the British Navy, particularly his multi-volume History of the Royal Navy. From Dreadnought to Scapa Flow is considered a standard work of historical research.

Life

Marten was born in 1910 in Boston, the son of the tailor Maxwell J. Marder and his wife Ida Greenstein. He studied at Harvard University, where William L. Langer, he received his doctorate in 1936 with a thesis on the Haldane Mission of 1912.

From 1936 to 1938 Marder taught at the University of Oregon before he returned to Harvard from 1939 to 1941. His first published work appeared in 1940 (British Naval Policy, 1880-1905 ). The introduction of increasingly darkening international situation and its good knowledge of German Marder was active from 1941 to 1942 in the Office of Strategic Services in Washington DC, where he was used mainly as an analyst.

Then Marder spent the rest of his life as a university scholar and lecturer at the Universities of Hawaii (1944-1964) and Irvine, a new campus of the University of California ( 1964-1977 ). An intermediate episode was his work as George Eastman Professor at Oxford University. The last ten years of his university activities primarily for marten, although not a " reactionary ", especially by friction with the student movement and with a new, perceived by him as irresponsible Professor generation coined the strained him and his research activity disabled.

His diligence and thoroughness, coupled with a catchy narrative style and the ability to write accurate descriptions without bulkiness, were there by John Horsfield ( ODoNB ) the main reasons that made ​​it possible for marten, some " extraordinary historical work " to be submitted.

After his retirement in 1977 left marten - along with his wife, Jan, North, whom he had married in 1955 - Orange County and moved to Montecito, where he at his home in Woodland Drive, Santa Barbara, died in December 1980.

Works

Published in 1952 martens Portrait of an Admiral: the Life and Papers of Sir Herbert Richmond, a biography that he as a result of his encounter with Richmond - to whom he was originally approached in connection with the project of a work on John Fisher - and the light of its private diaries written. This was followed from 1952 to 1959, the three-volume monumental biography Fear God and Dread Nought that, based on Fisher's correspondence and private papers, retraced the life of the flamboyant admiral.

Marder's main work From Dreadnought to Scapa Flow, finally appeared in five corpulent bands in the nine years from 1961 to 1970 in it., He describes the history of the British Navy in the first twenty years of the 20th century, beginning with the construction of the dreadnought battleships in the last few years before the First World war, and ending with the scuttling of the German High Seas Fleet in Scapa flow, 1919.

This was followed by From the Dardanelles to Oran (1974) and Operation Menace (1976). His project of a parallel history of the British and the Japanese fleet during the Second World War remained unfinished due to his illness from pancreatic cancer. Only the first volume of the three- part work, Old Friends, New Enemies could still be completed by him in 1981 and published posthumously. The second volume was completed based on information collected by marten study materials of his former students John Horsfield and Mark Jacobsen and published in 1990.

• Person (Office of Strategic Services )
• Historian
• University teachers (Oxford)
• Americans
• Born 1910
• Died in 1980
• Man