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Boewe, Charles Ernst was born on March 11, 1924 in West Salem, Illinois, United States. Son of Fred E. and Susie E. (Wolters) Boewe.
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Prairie Albion: An English Settlement in Pioneer Illinois (Shawnee Classics)
( Originally published in 1962, this story of the English...)
Originally published in 1962, this story of the English Settlement in pioneer Illinois is compiled from the eyewitness accounts of the participants. The founders, Morris Birkbeck and George Flower, as well as their associates and the many visitors to their prairie settlement, wrote mainly for immediate and sometimes controversial ends. Charles Boewe has selected excerpts from letters, descriptions, diaries, histories, and periodicals within a chronological framework to emphasize the implicit drama of the settlers' deeds as they searched for a suitable site, founded their colony, and augmented their forces with new arrivals from England. No less dramatic is the subsequent estrangement of the two founders, the disillusionment of many of the English settlers, the untimely death of Birkbeck, and the financial ruin of Flower.
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Profiles Of Rafinesque
( Was the nineteenth-century naturalist C. S. Rafinesque ...)
Was the nineteenth-century naturalist C. S. Rafinesque insane? Did he die in “abject poverty?” Just what is the value of his contributions to scientific nomenclature? Charles Boewe’s Profiles of Rafinesque takes up these questions and others. Among early naturalist, C. S. Rafinesque is second only to John James Audubon in the volume of commentary that has been written about him and his works. In contrast to Audubon, however, he has yet to receive an adequate biography. In this volume, Charles Boewe collects the essays of thirteen writers to provide the most comprehensive portrait now available of a persistently controversial character as well as a glimpse into the world of scientific discovery on the early American frontier. Rafinesque (1783-1840) is best known for his contributions to scientific classification and nomenclature; he gave Latin names to some 6,700 plants in what his critics described as a “complete monomania” for establishing new genera and species. This passion for discovery may not have kept him from following to logical conclusion his own insights such as that of biological variation, which Darwin so famously explicated just a few years later. Rafinesque’s broad interests included the languages of Native Americans and their archaeological remains; these studies contributed to philology and ethnography. He founded a savings bank and marketed a tuberculosis remedy, partially financing his publishing endeavors with his profits. He wrote on subjects ranging from astronomy to zoology, both for professional and for general audiences. Here are twenty essays, forty-six illustrations, and a summation of 160 years of Rafinesque scholarship, which together reveal a multifaceted individual. Boewe dispels certain myths about Rafinesque’s mental state, the circumstances of his birth and death, and the validity of his scientific work--on these topics Boewe and the other contributors provide a well-rounded picture of an intriguing nineteenth-century American naturalist.
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Prairie Albion : an English settlement in pioneer Illinois
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Profiles Of Rafinesque 1st edition by Boewe, Charles (2003) Hardcover
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(Profiles of Rafinesque ) Author: Charles Boewe PH.D. PH.D. PH.D. PH.D. Aug-2003
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Charles Ernst Boewe
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Charles Ernst Boewe, American historian, educator. Achievements include discovery of letters and manuscripts of Christian Science Rafinesque. Fellow, University Pennsylvania, 1956-1958; grantee, American Philosophical Society, Sicily, 1959, United States Information Agency, Egypt, 1980, National History Publication and Records Commission, 1980-1988.
Education
AB, Syracuse University, 1947. Master of Arts, Syracuse University, 1949. Doctor of Philosophy, University Wisconsin, 1955.
Career
Instructor Syracuse (New York ) University, Syracuse, 1949—1951, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 1955—1956. Assistant professor University Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1958—1964. Director United States Edntl.
Foundation, Karachi, Pakistan, 1964—1967, United States Commission for Cultural Exchange, Tehran, Iran, 1967—1970, American Studies Research Center, Hyderabad, India, 1970—1971, United States Educational Foundation, New Delhi, 1971—1973, Islamabad, Pakistan, 1973—1980. Adjunct research professor Transylvania University, Lexington, Kentucky, 1980—1985. Research associate Filson Club History Society, Louisville, 1985—1992.
Editor Papers of Christian Science Rafinesque, Fearrington village, North Carolina, since 1992. Advisory committee American Studies Research Center, Hyderabad, India, 1980—1989. Treasurer American Institute Pakistan Studies, 1981—1985.
Consultant in field; With United States Army, 1943-1946.
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Prairie Albion: An English Settlement in Pioneer Illinois (Shawnee Classics)
( Originally published in 1962, this story of the English...)
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Profiles Of Rafinesque
( Was the nineteenth-century naturalist C. S. Rafinesque ...)
- Prairie Albion: An English Settlement in Pioneer Illinois (Shawnee Classics) 1st edition by Boewe Ph.D., Dr. Charles (1999) Paperback
- Prairie Albion : an English settlement in pioneer Illinois
- Profiles Of Rafinesque 1st edition by Boewe, Charles (2003) Hardcover
- (Profiles of Rafinesque ) Author: Charles Boewe PH.D. PH.D. PH.D. PH.D. Aug-2003
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Prairie Albion: An English Settlement in Pioneer Illinois (Shawnee Classics)
Membership
Research associate American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, 1958—1964. Executive secretary American Studies Association, 1962—1964. History manuscripts committee Academy Natural Sciences, 1963—1964.
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Married Mary Scurrah, June 17, 1950. Children: Abigail Burnett, Emily Oliver.
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American
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1947
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1949
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1955
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1949 - 1951
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1955 - 1956
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1958 - 1964
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1964 - 1967
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1967 - 1970
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1970 - 1971
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1973 - 1980
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Fellow, University Pennsylvania, 1956-1958. Grantee, American Philosophical Society, Sicily, 1959, United States Information Agency, Egypt, 1980, National History Publication and Records Commission, 1980-1988.Fellow, University Pennsylvania, 1956-1958. Grantee, American Philosophical Society, Sicily, 1959, United States Information Agency, Egypt, 1980, National History Publication and Records Commission, 1980-1988.