Manning Clark
Manning Clark AC ( born March 3, 1915 in Burwood, Sydney, † 23 May 1991, Canberra) was an Australian historian.
Life
Clark's best known work is the six -volume History of Australia, published in 1962-1987. He was in 1975 appointed a member of the Order of Australia, which means the highest civilian honor in Australia, and elected in 1980 for Australian of the Year.
The historian was politically left-wing, and was viewed by conservatives as a key proponent of the so-called black arm band theory of history ( a theory of critical historiography ). However, Clark left behind one of the most understandable and most influential work in this area.
He was educated at Melbourne Grammar School and the University of Melbourne and the University of Oxford. He taught at the Grammar School Geelong, before he graduated in Canberra at the Australian National University ( ANU) the last part of his career.
Clark's first release was Select documents in Australian history, which appeared in two volumes. The first volume of 1950 dealt with the period 1788-1850, the second volume of 1955 contained the story of 1850 until 1900.
His wife Dymphna (1916-2000), with whom he had six children, was an academic linguist who taught German at the ANU. Translated and published in 1994, the New Holland Journal of the researcher Carl von hill.