Charles Upson Clark
{{short description|American philologist (1875–1960)}}
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| death_place = New York, New York, US
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| occupation = Historian
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Charles Upson Clark (January 14, 1875 – September 29, 1960) was a professor of history at Columbia University. He discovered the Barberini Codex, the earliest Aztec writings on herbal medicines extant.{{Cite magazine |url=http://www.motherearthliving.com/health-and-wellness/americas-first-herbalthe-badianus-manuscript.aspx |title=America's First Herbal: The Badianus Manuscript |first=Stephen |last=Foster |magazine=Mother Earth Living |date=1994-10-01 |access-date=2025-05-31}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.lib.uci.edu/libraries/exhibits/meso/colonial2.html |title=Colonial Codices |website=Realms of the Sacred in Daily Life: Early Written Records of Mesoamerica |publisher=University of California, Irvine Library |archive-url=https://archive.today/20021226054145/http://www.lib.uci.edu/libraries/exhibits/meso/colonial2.html |archive-date=December 26, 2002 |url-status=dead |access-date=2025-05-31}}
Biography
Clark was born in Springfield, Massachusetts on January 14, 1875 to Edward Perkins Clark and Catharine Pickens Upson.[https://archive.org/details/whoswho141926/page/456/mode/1up "Clark, Charles Upson"], in Who's Who in America (vol. 14, 1926 edition); p. 456{{cite news |title=Kate Upson Clark, Author, Dies At 83; Mother of Three Well Known Men Also Was Civic Leadert Editor and Lecturer |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1935/02/18/archives/kate-upbon-clark-author-diesat-83-mother-of-three-well-known-men.html |quote=Mrs. Edwin Perkins Clark, better known by her nom de plume, Kate Upson Clark, died early yesterday at her home, 464 Clinton Avenue, Brooklyn. ... Two of her sons, John Kirkland Clark, president of the New York State Board of ...|newspaper=The New York Times |page=15 |date=February 18, 1935 |accessdate=2025-05-31}} He earned a bachelor's degree at Yale University in 1897, and a Ph.D. there in 1903.
He married Annie White Frary in Rome on September 7, 1900, and they had three children.
Throughout his life he was the author of many books on a variety of subjects. Among them was the history of West Indies by Antonio Vázquez de Espinosa translated into English,{{Cite journal |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/30138500 |title=Book Reviews |first=Albert |last=Manucy |journal=The Florida Historical Quarterly |volume=22 |number=3 |pages=152–158 |date=January 1944 |access-date=2025-05-31 |JSTOR=30138500}} and the modern history of Romania.{{Cite web |url=http://bc.edu/libraries/centers/burns/exhibits/highlights/s-roumexhib/ |title=The Birth of the Romanian State |publisher=Burns Library |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060904124933/http://bc.edu/libraries/centers/burns/exhibits/highlights/s-roumexhib/ |archive-date=2006-09-04 |url-status=dead |access-date=2025-05-31}}
He also collaborated with the American School of Classical Studies in Rome, where became a fellow in 1901, and held a directory of Classical Studies and Archaeology since 1910.{{Cite web |url=http://www.sof-aarome.org/sof_dir_1901_1910.html |title=Directory by Year Index |publisher=American Academy in Rome Society of Fellows |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050826135027/http://www.sof-aarome.org/sof_dir_1901_1910.html |archive-date=2005-08-26 |url-status=dead |access-date=2005-08-26}} He died at his apartment in New York City on September 29, 1960.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news-clark-u-clark/173564726/ |title=Clark U. Clark |newspaper=New York Daily News |page=12 |date=1960-10-01 |access-date=2025-05-31 |via=Newspapers.com}}
Works
- [https://archive.org/details/texttraditionam01clargoog The Text Tradition of Ammianus Marcellinus] (1904)
- [https://archive.org/details/collectaneahispa00clar/page/n6/mode/1up Collectanea Hispanica] (1920)
- [https://archive.org/details/greaterroumania00clargoog/mode/2up United Roumania] (1922)
- [https://archive.org/details/386786193 Bessarabia, Russia and Roumania on the Black Sea] (1927), Dodd, Mead and Company
- [https://archive.org/details/voyageursrobesno0000clar Voyageurs, robes noires, et coureurs de bois; Stories from the French exploration of North America] (1934) {{Registration required}}
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Category:Columbia University faculty
Category:Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America
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