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George Lincoln Burr (January 30, 1857 – June 27, 1938) was a US historian, diplomat, author, and educator, best known as a Professor of History and Librarian at Cornell University, and as the closest collaborator of Andrew Dickson White, the first President of Cornell.
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY. George Lincoln Burr papers, 1861-1942. Letters, diary fragments, notes, manuscripts, and other material documenting Burr's boyhood in Newark Valley, New York, and his student days at Cortland Academy, at Cornell University, and at Leipzig University; his travels and activities in Europe collecting rare books and manuscripts ...
George Lincoln Burr (1857–1938) received his PhD from Cornell University in 1881, where he taught ancient and medieval history until 1922. He also served as librarian at Cornell from 1888 until his death in 1938.
existent crime invented by monks and inquisitors.1 This idea was most eloquentiy ex. pressed in the early twentieth century by Joseph Hansen, an archivist in Cologne, whose. work inspired American scholars Henry Charles Lea and George Lincoln Burr, both of whom took a dim view of religious politics.
22 de mar. de 2022 · The War on Witchcraft: Andrew Dickson White, George Lincoln Burr, and the Origins of Witchcraft Historiography. By Jan Machielsen. Elements in Magic. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 61 pp. Illus. £15.00 (pbk). ISBN 978-1-10894-874-6. Julian Goodare. Pages 404-405 | Published online: 22 Mar 2022. Cite this article.
George Lincoln Burr: His Life, by Roland H. Bainton; Selections from his Writings, edited by Lois Oliphant Gibbons. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 1943. Pp. xi, 505. $3.75.) | The American Historical Review | Oxford Academic.
George Lincoln Burr. A. D. White hired George Lincoln Burr (1857-1938) as his personal librarian when he was only a sophomore at Cornell. Burr worked in that capacity and as White’s personal secretary, traveling across Europe, acquiring some of White’s most prized manuscripts and early imprints.
