Winthrop Pickard Bell

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Winthrop Pickard Bell (May 12, 1884 – April 4, 1965) was a

academic who taught philosophy at the University of Toronto and Harvard.[1][2][3] He is however perhaps best known for his work as a historian of Nova Scotia.[4]

Biography

He was born in

University of Leipzig, and finally at the University of Göttingen (where he completed his doctoral studies under Edmund Husserl).[8][9]

Engraving by Winthorp P. Bell on a cell-door in the Karzer of Göttingen University

Edith Stein was among his friends during his Göttingen period.[10][11]

During the

First World War he was held in the civilian internment camp at Ruhleben, near Berlin, for more than three years.[8][12][13] After the war he became a secret agent for MI6 in Berlin[14][13], and also taught philosophy at the University of Toronto and at Harvard University,[15] which he left in 1927 to pursue a career in business.[8][16]

In his latter years he focused his energies on historical research, much of which concerned the group of mid-18th-Century immigrants to Nova Scotia known as the "Foreign Protestants".[8] His most notable publication was The "Foreign Protestants" and the Settlement of Nova Scotia, which was published by the University of Toronto Press in 1961; his Register of the Foreign Protestants of Nova Scotia was published some years after his death.[17]

Subject of the book Cracking the Nazi Code by Jason Bell (2023).

References

  1. ^ "Winthrop Bell Archives".
  2. ISBN 9789400750432
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  3. ISBN 978-94-007-5043-2
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  4. ^ "Search - Directory of Special Collections of Research Value in Canadian Libraries".
  5. ISBN 978-0-8232-5528-3
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  6. ^ Ward, Roger (January 25, 2015). "Review of The Relevance of Royce".
  7. S2CID 144317418
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  8. ^ a b c d "Winthrop Pickard Bell: Man of the Maritimes, Citizen of the World".
  9. ^ "Winthrop Pickard Bell".
  10. ISBN 978-0-7425-5953-0
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  11. ISBN 978-1-939272-25-6
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  12. ISSN 1480-2333
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  13. ^ a b Fraser, Elizabeth (June 4, 2019). "Canada's unsung hero: Academic turned spy foresaw WW II, says UNB scholar". CBC News.
  14. ^ Bell, Jason (April 29, 2023). "The history of espionage shows how spying contributes to a free society". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved April 15, 2024.
  15. ISBN 978-94-010-2379-5
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  16. ISBN 9789401732703
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  17. ^ "Bibliography". preserve.lib.unb.ca. Retrieved May 19, 2022.

External links

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