Arthur May
{{Short description|American historian and professor}}
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Arthur James May ({{circa}}1899–June 13, 1968) was an historian, a professor, and "an authority on the history of modern Europe."{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/136625709/?terms=arthur%2Bj%2Bmay|title=Dr. Arthur May, Historian, Dead|date=June 15, 1968|work=Democrat and Chronicle|access-date=Nov 15, 2019}}
May was born in Rockdale, Pennsylvania. He received a Bachelor's Degree from Wesleyan University and a Master's and Doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania. "He taught at the University of Pennsylvania and Brown University" before he came to the University of Rochester in 1925.
He was a prolific speaker, frequently lecturing in the United States and Europe on "historical and contemporary issues." He was the author of a number of works of history, particularly the history of Eastern Europe. His book The Hapsburg monarchy, 1867-1914 won The Herbert Baxter Adams Prize of the American Historical Association in 1952.{{cite journal |title=Personals |journal=New York History |date=January 1969 |volume=50 |issue=1 |page=87 |jstor=23169033 |last1=Tripp |first1=Wendell }} He was named one of "three distinguished pioneer American scholars of Hapsburg history."{{cite journal |last1=Rath |first1=R. John |title=Arthur J. May, 1899–1968 |journal=Central European History |date=June 1969 |volume=2 |issue=2 |pages=189–190 |doi=10.1017/S0008938900000224 }} His last book A History of the University of Rochester, 1850-1962 was published posthumously.
May was a member of the American Historical Association, the American Association of University Professors, and the International Committee for the Study of the Hapsburg Monarchy, and an honorary member of Phi Beta Kappa.
May retired from teaching in 1964 and became the University Historian at Rochester.
Publications
- {{cite book |last1=May |first1=Arthur J. |title=Kossuth and Karolyi |date=1925 |oclc=24333371 }}
- {{cite book |last1=May |first1=Arthur J. |title=The age of Metternich, 1814-1848 |date=1933 |publisher=H. Holt |oclc=164719597 }}
- {{cite book |last1=May |first1=Arthur J. |title=The Novibazar Railway Project |date=1938 |url=https://www.amazon.com/Novibazar-Railway-Project-Arthur-May/dp/B00BRPRNBG/ref=sr_1_32?qid=1573847687&refinements=p_27%3AArthur+J.+May&s=books&sr=1-32&text=Arthur+J.+May}}
- May, Arthur J. (1947) Europe and Two World Wars
- {{cite book |last1=May |first1=Arthur J. |title=The Hapsburg monarchy, 1867-1914 |date=1951 |publisher=Harvard University Press |oclc=530556143 }}
- {{cite book |last1=May |first1=Arthur J. |title=A history of civilization : the story of our heritage |date=1956 |publisher=Charles Scribner's Sons |oclc=45950248 }}
- {{cite book |last1=May |first1=Arthur J. |title=The Passing of the Hapsburg Monarchy, 1914-1918, vol 1 |date=1966 |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press |location=Philadelphia, PA |isbn=9781512804263 |url=https://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/1252.html}}
- {{cite book |last1=May |first1=Arthur J. |title=The Passing of the Hapsburg Monarchy, 1914-1918, vol 2 |date=1966 |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press |location=Philadelphia, PA |isbn=9781512807530 |url=https://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/15478.html}}
- {{cite book|last1=May|first1=Arthur J.|title=Vienna in the Age of Franz Josef|date=1966|publisher=University of Oklahoma Press|url=https://www.amazon.com/Vienna-Age-Franz-Josef-Arthur/dp/B0006D8RUG}}
- {{cite book |last1=May |first1=Arthur J. |title=Europe since 1939 |date=1966 |publisher=Holt, Rinehart and Winston |oclc=465812263 }}
- {{cite book|last1=May|first1=Arthur J.|editor-last=Klein|editor-first=Lawrence Eliot|title=A History of the University of Rochester, 1850-1962|date=1977|publisher=University of Rochester|oclc=3326047}}
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External links
- [https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=au%3AMay%2C+Arthur+J.&qt=hot_author WorldCat author page for Arthur J. May]
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Category:University of Rochester faculty
Category:People from Rochester, New York
Category:Wesleyan University alumni
Category:University of Pennsylvania alumni
Category:Year of birth uncertain
Category:Historians from New York (state)
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