Charles Upson Clark
{{short description|American classical and Romance philologist}}
Charles Upson Clark (January 14, 1875 in Springfield, Massachusetts[https://archive.org/details/whoswhoinamerica02marq/page/456/mode/2up CLARK, Charles Upson], in Who's Who in America (vol. 14, 1926 edition); p. 456 –1960) was a professor of history at Columbia University. He discovered the Barberini Codex, the earliest Aztec writings on herbal medicines extant.
Biography
Clark was born in 1875 to Edward Perkins Clark and Catharine Pickens Upson.{{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 ...|work=The New York Times |date= February 18, 1935 |accessdate=2010-10-08 }} 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,"El Consejo Real ..." and the modern history of Romania."The Birth of the Romanian State"
He also collaborated with the American School of Classical Studies in Rome, where he held a directory of Classical Studies and Archaeology since 1910. He died in 1960.
Works
- "The Text Tradition of Ammianus Marcellinus", 1904
- "Greater Roumania", Dodd, Mead and Company, 1922. [http://www.ibiblio.org/yiddish/Tshernovits/clark-bu.htm Chapter X]
- "Bessarabia, Russia and Roumania on the Black Sea", Dodd, Mead and Company, 1927. [http://depts.washington.edu/cartah/text_archive/clark/toc_pag.shtml Electronic Text Archive]
References
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External links
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- Steven Foster, [http://www.motherearthliving.com/health-and-wellness/americas-first-herbalthe-badianus-manuscript.aspx The Badianus Manuscript: The First Herbal from the Americas], 1992
- [https://archive.today/20021226054145/http://www.lib.uci.edu/libraries/exhibits/meso/colonial2.html Azcatitlan Codex]
- [http://homepage.mac.com/jcrossley/wc/wc98/wc98_217.htm Bio info]{{dead link|date=November 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
- [https://www.jstor.org/stable/1841611 El Consejo Real y Supremo de las Indias: Su historia, organizacion, y labor administrativo hasta la terminacion de la Casa de Austria]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20060904124933/http://bc.edu/libraries/centers/burns/exhibits/highlights/s-roumexhib/ The Birth of the Romanian State]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20050826135027/http://www.sof-aarome.org/sof_dir_1901_1910.html Society of Fellows, American Academy in Rome]
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Category:Columbia University faculty
Category:Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America
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