Laurence M. Larson

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Laurence Marcellus Larson (September 23, 1868 – March 9, 1938) was a Norwegian born, American educator, historian, writer and translator. His notable works included his translation from Old Norse of Konungs skuggsjá (Harvard UP, 1917).[1][2]

Biography

Laurence Larson was born at

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1907 and was appointed chair of the history department in 1923, joining another renowned scholar of Scandinavanian studies at Illinois, George T. Flom. Larson continued teaching at UIUC until his September 1937 retirement.[5]

Larson was named a trustee of the

Illinois State Historical Library in 1923. He was elected to the presidency of the American Historical Association in 1938, but died of acute bronchitis in Urbana, Illinois, aged 69, before completing his term.[5]

Selected works

  • The Federal Compact of 1787 (1900)
  • The King's Household in England Before the Norman Conquest (1904)
  • A Financial and Administrative History of Milwaukee (1908)
  • Canute the Great the Rise of Danish Imperialism during the Viking Age (1912)
  • A Short History of England and the British Empire (1915)
  • The King’s Mirror (1917)
  • The Responsibility for the Great War (1918)
  • The Earliest Norwegian Laws: Being the Gulathing Law and the Frostathing Law (1935)
  • The Changing West: And Other Essays (1937)
  • The Log Book of a Young Immigrant (1939)

References

  1. JSTOR 40187533
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  2. OL 14016874M
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  3. ^ "Laurence M. Larson Papers, 1876–1938". University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Retrieved August 16, 2015.
  4. ^ "Progress of the University". Wisconsin Alumni Magazine. 8 (1): 307, 358. 1906.
  5. ^ a b "Laurence M. Larson, retired professor served 30 years at Illinois University". New York Times. March 10, 1938. Retrieved August 16, 2015.

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