Background
Taylor, Henry Osborn was born on December 5, 1856 in New York, United States. Son of Henry Augustus and Catharine A. (Osborn) Taylor.
Taylor, Henry Osborn was born on December 5, 1856 in New York, United States. Son of Henry Augustus and Catharine A. (Osborn) Taylor.
Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1878, Doctor of Literature, 1912. Bachelor of Laws, Columbia University, 1881. Honorary Doctor of Letters from same university, 1926.
Doctor of Humane Letters, Wesleyan University, Connecticut, 1921.
Author: Treatise on Law of Private Corporations, 5th edit, 1902. Ancient Ideals, a Study of Intellectual and Spiritual Growth from Early Times to the Establishment of Christianity, 2 volumes, second edition, 1913. The Classical Heritage of the Middle Ages, 4th edit, 1925.
The Mediæval Mind, 2 volumes, 5th edit, 1938.
Deliverance—The Freeing of the Spirit in the Ancient World, 1915 (revised and reissued as Prophets, Poets and Philosophers of the Ancient World, 1919). Thought and Expression in Sixteenth Century, 2 volumes, second edition, 1930.
Greek Biology and Medicine, 1922. Freedom of Mind in History, 1922, second edition, 1924.
Human Values and Verities, 1928.
Fact—the Romance of Mind, 1932. A Layman’s View of History, 1935. A Historian’s Creed, 1939.
Lowell lecturer, 1917.
West lecturer, Leland Stanford, 1920. Home: New York, New New York
Married Julia Isham, October 21, 1905.