Charles Seymour

Charles Seymour ( born January 1, 1885 in New Haven, Connecticut; † August 11, 1963 in Chatham, Massachusetts) was an American historian and President of Yale University in the years 1937-1951.

The title of Bachelor of Arts was conferred upon him by the University of Cambridge in 1904, and in 1908 a special BA of Yale, where he was also a member of the fraternity Skull & Bones. He later earned a Master of Arts degree from Cambridge Faculty (1909 ) and the Ph.D. graduation at Yale in 1911. At Berkeley College, he was a board, where he in 1908 during the expansion and protection of interests of Yale Residential College helped. He taught history at Yale from 1911 to 1937, where he rose to become Sterling Professor in the meantime; during which he was the successor of James Rowland Angell also president of that institution. Under his presidency, he led several university seminars as a major subject for example American Studies. In addition, he was chief of the Austro-Hungarian division of the American Commission to Negotiate Peace and as a U.S. delegate Romanian, Yugoslav and Czechoslovak states commission of 1919.

Seymour died in Chatham, Massachusetts. His son Charles Seymour, Jr., was a professor of art history at Yale University.

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