Background
Barzun, Jacques was born on November 30, 1907 in Créteil, France. Came to United States, 1920, naturalized, 1933. Son of Henri Martin and Anna-Rose Barzun.
Barzun, Jacques was born on November 30, 1907 in Créteil, France. Came to United States, 1920, naturalized, 1933. Son of Henri Martin and Anna-Rose Barzun.
Student, Lycée Janson de Sailly, Paris. AB, Columbia University, 1927. Master of Arts, Columbia University, 1928.
Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1932.
Assistant Professor 1938, Association Professor 1942, Professor since 1945, Dean of Graduate Faculties 1955-1958, Dean of Faculties and Provost 1958-1967, Seth Low Professor 1960, University Professor 1967-1975. Professor Emeritus since 1975. Literary Adviser, Scribner’s since 1975.
President 1972-1975, 1977-1978), American Historical Association, Royal Society of Arts, American Arbitration Association. Former Director Council for Basic Education, New York Society Library, Open Court. Fellow, Churchill College, Cambridge 1961.
Teacher in America 1945, Berlioz and the Romantic Century 1950, God’s Country and Mine 1954, The Energies of Art 1956, Music in American Life 1956, The Modem Researcher 1957 (with H. Graff), The House of Intellect 1959, Classic, Romantic and Modem 1961, Science, the Glorious Entertainment 1964, The American University 1968, A Catalogue of Crime (with W. Taylor) 1971, On Writing, Editing and Publishing 1971, The Use and Abuse of Art 1974, Clio and the Doctors 1974, Simple and Direct 1975, Critical Questions 1982, A Stroll with William James 1983, A Word or Two Before You Go 1986, The Culture We Deserve 1989, An Essay on French Verse for Readers of English.
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Trustee New York Society Library., 1968-1997. Advisory council University Buckingham. Fellow Royal Society Arts, Royal Society Literature.
Member Society of America Historians, Massachusetts History Society (correspondent), American Academy of Arts and Letters (president 1972-1975, 77-78), American Philosophical Society, American Academy for Liberal Education (honorary president), Academy Delphinale (Grenoble), Century Association, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Mariana Lowell, August 1936 (deceased 1979). Children: James Lowell, Roger Martin, Isabel. Married Marguerite Davenport, June 1980.
