Justin Winsor
Justin Winsor ( January 2, 1831 in Boston, Massachusetts, † October 22, 1897 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) was an American linguist, anthropologist, historian and longtime librarian of the Harvard University Library, both president of the American Library Association as well as the American Historical Association was.
Life
Study and Superintendent of the Boston Public Library
After attending the Boston Latin School, he began studying at Harvard University, but he left out of the final. At the age of 19 he published in 1850 with History of Duxbury a story derin Massachusetts lying his ancestral home town. After he left Harvard University, he began studying at the University of Paris and the Ruprecht -Karls- University of Heidelberg. During this time he began to compose a ten-volume biography of the English actor David Garrick and his contemporaries under the title Garrick and his Contemporaries.
In 1866, he was initially a Trustee of the Boston Public Library, the largest U.S. city public library, and in 1868 superintendent of the library. In this role, he promoted the use of the large collection of the library and was also the editor of an extensive catalog about books on history, biographies and travel, and of the first statements of historical- fictional books. In 1876 he began the publication of a series of basic operations such as Bibliography of the Original Quartos and Folios of Shakespeare with Particular Reference to Copies in America, this plant was razed to around a hundred editions by fire. In addition to that, he was from 1876 to 1885 president of the American Library Association.
Librarian of the Harvard University Library
1877 he was appointed librarian of the Harvard University Library and held this post until his death in 1897.
In 1879 he wrote to The Reader's Handbook of the American Revolution ( 1879), a short edition of a bibliography of the American Revolution. In 1880 he started in collaboration with seventy authors with the publication of the four-volume History of Memorial Boston, whose fourth volume appeared in 1882. This was followed by the publication of The Narrative and Critical History of America in 1889 and gave the eighth volume of this work out. In it, he combined a comprehensive and systematic study of historical problems with the help of simultaneous cartography. As an early result from the publication of Ptolemy 's Geography Bibliography of (1884 ) and Catalogue of the Collection of Maps Relating carbon to America (1886 ) was followed in the Bulletin of the Harvard Library.
Between 1886 and 1887 Winsor was also for one year president of the American Historical Association. Its annual presidential address he gave on the subject of Manuscript Sources of American History: The Conspicuous Collections Extant.
The knowledge gained, he finally published in the books Christopher Columbus ( 1891), Cartier to Frontenac (1894 ), The Mississippi Basin (1895 ) and The Westward Movement (1897 ), where he in these four volumes expertise with the date of its publication existing different, contemporary views combined.
Winsor, who was member of the Massachusetts Archives Commission for several years, had been commissioned by the Boundary Commission of Venezuela with the copy of the report on the Maps of the Orinoco - Essequibo region.
According to him, both the award 1896-1938 Justin Winsor Prize of the American Historical Association and the award since 1979 Justin Winsor Prize for Library History Essay of the American Library Association is named.
Publications
- Bibliography of the Original Quartos and Folios of Shakespeare with Particular Reference to Copies in America, 1876
- The Reader 's Handbook of the American Revolution, 1879
- Memorial History of Boston, 1880-1882 (4 volumes)
- The Narrative and Critical History of America, 1883-1889 (8 volumes)
- Bibliography of Ptolemy 's Geography, 1884
- Catalogue of the Collection of Maps Relating carbon to America, 1886
- Christopher Columbus, 1891
- Cartier to Frontenac, 1894
- The Mississippi Basin, 1895
- The Westward Movement, 1897