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Brechka, Frank Tilson was born on September 30, 1930 in New York City. Son of Frank August and Marjorie Tilson (Connell) Brechka.
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Gerard Van Swieten and His World 1700-1772 (International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées) (Volume 36)
(QU ALITIES, QUERIES, AND REPUTE Holland has bred its shar...)
QU ALITIES, QUERIES, AND REPUTE Holland has bred its share of remarkable men and Gerard van Swieten was one of them. Raised in Leiden by fairly prosperous Catholic parents, educated at Louvain and Leiden, acknowledged as one of the most gifted pupils of the famed scientist Herman Boerhaave, and an eminent doctor in his native city for many years, he became chief physician at the Court of Vienna, director of the Imperial Library, head of both the Vienna Medical Faculty and the Censorship Commission, and trusted councillor of the Empress Maria Theresa. There is a short street in Leiden that presently honors his name and his figure is one of those surrounding the Empress on her imposing memorial in Vienna. What sort of man was this who travelled so far? What achievements, what qualities deserve such remembrances? Why a study of his life? Gerard van Swieten worked no miracles. He accomplished no "diplo matic revolution," commanded no victorious army, helped to change no political boundary, wrote no literary masterpiece, proposed no radically new or notable scientific theory. More of an organizer than an innovator, more of an administrator than an orginator, he was content to compile, to put together, to comment upon, to explain the discoveries of others and to manipulate the given situations presented to him. He seldom initiated. He followed through.
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Frank Tilson Brechka
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Frank Tilson Brechka, American librarian, historian. Research grantee Libraries Association University California, Berkeley, 1982; scholar Columbia University School Library. Service, New York City, 1952-1953, Fulbright, Netherlands and Austria, 1965-1966. Member American History Association, Institute for History Study.
Education
AB, Columbia University, 1952. Master of Science, Columbia University, 1954. AM, Columbia University, 1958.
Doctor of Philosophy, University California, Berkeley, 1968.
Career
Library. New York Public Library., New York City, 1954-1957, senior library, 1959-1961. Head library Staten Island Community College, 1958-1959. Reference library Wagner College, 1961-1963, University California, Berkeley, 1967-1971, history library, 1971-1991, retired, 1991.
Instructor history and librarianship University California, Berkeley, 1970-1977. Consultant San Francisco Towers Library., since 1996.
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Gerard Van Swieten and His World 1700-1772 (International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées)
(QU ALITIES, QUERIES, AND REPUTE Holland has bred its shar...)
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Gerard Van Swieten and His World 1700-1772 (International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées) (Volume 36)
(QU ALITIES, QUERIES, AND REPUTE Holland has bred its shar...)
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Gerard Van Swieten and His World 1700-1772 (International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées)
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Member American History Association, Institute for History Study.
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American
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1952
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1954
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1958
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1968
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1954 - 1957
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1958 - 1959
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1961 - 1963
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1967 - 1971
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1971 - 1991
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Research grantee Libraries Association University California, Berkeley, 1982. Scholar Columbia University School Library. Service, New York City, 1952-1953, Fulbright, Netherlands and Austria, 1965-1966.Research grantee Libraries Association University California, Berkeley, 1982. Scholar Columbia University School Library. Service, New York City, 1952-1953, Fulbright, Netherlands and Austria, 1965-1966.