Preserved Smith
Preserved Smith (July 22, 1880 – May 15, 1941) was an American historian of the
Protestant Reformation
.
He was the son of
University of Berlin. Like his mentor James Harvey Robinson at Columbia, he had a high respect for science and a belief that knowledge of history was a way to improve human prospects for the future. He taught at Cornell University as a member of the Department of History from 1923 to 1941. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1937.[3]
His doctoral dissertation was a critical study of the Table Talk of Martin Luther and he wrote major biographies of Luther and Erasmus. Smith was a professor at Amherst College, Cornell University, Harvard University, and Williams College.
References
William Gilbert (1951). "The work of Preserved Smith (1880–1941)". The Journal of Modern History. 23 (4): 354–365. S2CID 143857743.
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