Ronald Edward Zupko
{{Short description|American metrologist and academic}}
{{Infobox academic|name=Ronald Edward Zupko|birth_date=5 August, 1938|birth_place=Youngstown, Ohio|known_for=Historical Metrology|alma_mater=University of Wisconsin-Madison|workplaces=Marquette University|death_date=8 November, 2021|death_place=Wauwatosa, Wisconsin}}
Ronald Edward Zupko (5 August, 1938 -- 8 November, 2021) was an authority on historical metrology (the study of the history of weights and measures) with an academic background in medieval history. He was known for his books on the history of weights and measures, and had written numerous dictionary and encyclopedia entries on historical measurement units.See also: Historical metrology
Born in Youngstown, Ohio, Zupko received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and taught at Marquette University from 1966 until retiring in 2002."Ronald Edward Zupko." Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2007. Gale Biography In Context. Web. 16 Nov. 2011.
Professor Zupko was a member of the Comité International pour la Métrologie Historique, Institute for Advanced Study (associate member), Mediaeval Academy of America, Economic History Association, National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors, Midwest Medieval Association, Pi Gamma Mu, and Phi Alpha Theta.
Published works
[https://books.google.com/books?id=pWUgAQAAIAAJ&q=British+Weights+and+Measures:+A+History+from+Antiquity+to+the+Seventeenth+Century British Weights and Measures: A History from Antiquity to the Seventeenth Century]
hardcover: 224 pages, University of Wisconsin Press (1977), {{ISBN|978-0-299-07340-4}}
[https://books.google.com/books?id=S2cLAAAAMAAJ&q=French+Weights+and+Measures+Before+the+Revolution:+A+Dictionary+of+Provincial+and+Local+Units French Weights and Measures Before the Revolution: A Dictionary of Provincial and Local Units]
hardcover: 256 pages, Indiana University Press (1979) {{ISBN|978-0-253-32480-1}}
[https://books.google.com/books?id=GrVoh1JxRRAC&q=Italian+Weights+and+Measures+from+the+Middle+Ages+to+the+Nineteenth+Century Italian Weights and Measures from the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century]
hardcover: 339 pages, American Philosophical Society (1981) {{ISBN|978-0-87169-145-3}}
[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_0l_k-XMIiQIC Dictionary of Weights and Measures for the British Isles: The Middle Ages to the 20th Century]
hardcover, 520 pages, American Philosophical Society (1985) {{ISBN|978-0-87169-168-2}}
[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_uYCNFkRgXCoC Revolution in Measurement: Western European Weights and Measures Since the Age of Science]
hardcover: 548 pages, American Philosophical Society (1990) {{ISBN|978-0-87169-186-6}}
[https://books.google.com/books?id=GnGSalZUnXoC&q=Straws+In+The+Wind%3A+Medieval+Urban+Environmental+Law--the+Case+Of+Northern+Italy Straws In The Wind: Medieval Urban Environmental Law--the Case Of Northern Italy]
co-authored with Robert A Laures
paperback: 160 pages, Westview Press (1996) {{ISBN|978-0-8133-2972-7}}
Bibliography
Contemporary Authors, vol. 13 (1984){{cite book
| title = Contemporary Authors
| publisher = Gale Research
| year = 1984
| volume = 13
| isbn = 0-8103-1942-X
| url-access = registration
| url = https://archive.org/details/contemporaryauth13lind
}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.youtube.com/user/MarquetteU#p/search/0/HLP_c5sc_CA YouTube video (14:36) Dr. Ronald Zupko on The Difference Network at Marquette University]
- [http://www.marquette.edu/history/newsletters09_announcements.shtml Marquette University History Department, online newsletter, Spring 2009, announcements]
- Marquette University - Raynor Memorial Libraries - HISTORY DEPARTMENT - [http://www.marquette.edu/library/archives/SuperC/UNIV-C-1-7-series2-REZ.shtml RONALD EDWARD ZUPKO COLLECTION]
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