Herbert Richardson (publisher)
Herbert Warren Richardson III | |
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Born | April 14, 1932 |
Nationality | American |
Education | |
Occupation(s) | Publisher; Professor |
Known for | Founder of Edwin Mellen Press |
Spouse | Dorothy Richardson |
Children | 4 |
Relatives | Isaac Adams (great grandfather) |
Herbert Warren Richardson (born April 14, 1932)
Early life
Herbert Warren Richardson was born in 1932. Richardson is the great-grandson of
Career
Academia
After receiving his doctorate, Richardson became an assistant professor at the Harvard Divinity School, where he was the first professor appointed to the HDS faculty who was trained by it.
In 1994, Richardson was fired by St. Michael's on the grounds that he had abused a medical leave and not fully disclosed the amount of time he was spending on a business venture, the Edwin Mellen Press.[3]
Business ventures
In 1972, four years into his time at St. Michael's, Richardson started his own scholarly press. The business was called Edwin Mellen Press, after his grandfather. The press' original goal was to publish dissertations by graduate students from his department at St. Michael's, but expanded to publish books on a wide variety of topics.
In 1991, the University of Toronto began an investigation of Richardson's conduct as a tenured professor, including this business venture.[6]
Subsequently, as the University suspended accreditation of his courses in 1993 while the investigation continued, Richardson founded the Edwin Mellen University. Located in the Turks and Caicos, this business offered M.Phil. and D.Litt. degrees based on dissertations alone, and Baccaloreat degrees for life experience.[3][7]
In 1994, the University of Toronto concluded that Richardson was a "dishonest and untrustworthy employee" who made "substantial financial gain" from running his two businesses, and sacked him.[6] Richardson then continued to work through his two businesses, principally from his press facility in Lewiston NY.
Lawsuits
In 2013, Richardson made national news when he sued
Nazi documents
In 1998, Richardson befriended Margot Lipton, a former secretary to
References
- ^ "The 200 Year Business/Academic Origins Of The Edwin Mellen Press". The Edwin Mellen Press. Retrieved December 16, 2015.
- ^ "The Edwin Mellen Press - official website". Archived from the original on December 11, 2015. Retrieved December 16, 2015.
- ^ a b c d e f New, Jake (April 15, 2013). "Herbert Richardson v. the World". The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved February 9, 2016.
- ^ George Hunston Williams, Divinings: Religion At Harvard, Vol. 2, 2014, pp. 566ff.; Patrick Primeaux, Richard R. Niebuhr on Christ and Religion: The Four Stage Development of His Theology, 1981, Preface, pp. v–vi.
- ^ Richardson, Herbert, ed. (1981). Ten Theologians Respond to the Unification Church. Barrytown, NY: Unification Theological Seminary.
- ^ a b "Professor fired over outside interest". Times for Higher Education. July 13, 1994. Retrieved November 24, 2023.
- ^ Trueheart, Charles (July 13, 1994). "Publish and Perish?". The Washington Post. Retrieved January 31, 2023.
- ^ a b Fabris, Casey (February 15, 2015). "Librarian Says Academic Press Has Settled Lingering Lawsuit Against Him". The Ticker. The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved June 30, 2016.
- ^ Scheier, Rachel (August 27, 1999). "Nuremberg Lawyer's Lost Papers Recovered Holocaust Experts Are Studying Records Left By The Lansdowne Man. They Had Vanished". Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia Media Network, PBC. Retrieved December 16, 2015.
- ^ Cohen, Patricia (June 13, 2013). "Diary of a Hitler Aide Resurfaces After a Hunt That Lasted Years". The New York Times. Retrieved June 15, 2013.
- ^ "Encontrado el diario de un confidente de Hitler" [Found: the diary of one of Hitler's confidants]. La Vanguardia (in Spanish). Barcelona, Spain. June 10, 2013. Archived from the original on June 24, 2013.
- ^ Fenyvesi, Charles (June 14, 2012). "Mysteries of the Lost (and Found) Nazi Diaries". National Geographic. Archived from the original on June 17, 2013. Retrieved September 29, 2013.