Jacques Barzun at Columbia (5 jan 1923 ano – 5 fev 1975 ano)

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b. 1907 (France) – d. 2012, moved to US in 1919/20
At Columbia
B.A. Columbia College 1927 (valedictorian), PhD 1932
Faculty 1932-75

Book: Race: A Study in Superstition (1937. rev. ed. 1965), Romanticism and the Modern Ego (1943, 2d rev. ed. retitled Classic, Romantic, and Modern, 1961), The Teacher in America (1945)The American University (1968), Begin Here: The Forgotten Conditions of Teaching and Learning (1991), From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present (2000)

He was one of the driving forces behind the creation of the Colloquium on Important Books. He later helped establish Humanities A and taught the course regularly. ....Even after retiring from the University in 1975, he has continued to defend the core curriculum and to speak out against declines in academic standards. As one former Columbia graduate student remarked, Jacques Barzun was known for "prestige, authority and self-confidence" and for "his unapologetic insistence upon excellence."
http://c250.columbia.edu/c250_celebrates/remarkable_columbians/jacques_barzun.html

NYT Obit correction: "Mr. Barzun designed a curriculum of classic literary texts, not classic literary and philosophical texts, which is still required of all Columbia College freshmen, not all Columbia University freshmen. (He was not involved in developing a separate curriculum that includes philosophical texts, which is intended for sophomores.)"

Co-taught with Trilling one of Columbia’s most renowned courses, “Studies in European Intellectual History and Culture Since 1750,” AKA “the Barzun-Trilling seminar.”

From his magisterial book, Dawn to Decadence: "history cannot be a science; it is the very opposite, in that its interest resides in the particulars." (654-6).

Believed writing for the public was scholars' responsibility (NYT obit)

An authorized biography, “Jacques Barzun: Portrait of a Mind,” by Michael Murray, was published in 2011.

Mr. Barzun studied at the Lycée Janson de Sailly, only to find himself, he said, teaching there at the age of 9. After World War I broke out in 1914, many teachers were drafted into the military, and older students were inducted to teach the younger ones.

from NYT Obit: "With friends and acquaintances killed in the fighting, Mr. Barzun found the war a “shattering experience.” In 1917, his father went to the United States on a diplomatic mission. Then, at age 11, he “experienced a very deep depression,” Mr. Barzun said in the New York Times interview in 2000. He contemplated suicide. In 1920, with the French university system decimated by the war and young Jacques still in despair, it was decided that he would travel to the United States, accompanied by his mother. To improve his English, he read “Gulliver’s Travels.” Mr. Barzun’s first thoughts about America, he said, were of a people almost as exotic as Gulliver’s Yahoos and Brobdingnagians." https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/26/arts/jacques-barzun-historian-and-scholar-dies-at-104.html

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