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John William Burgess was born on August 26, 1844, in Giles County, Tennessee, United States. He was the son of Thomas Burgess, a farmer, and Mary J. (Edwards) Burgess.
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John William Burgess was born on August 26, 1844, in Giles County, Tennessee, United States. He was the son of Thomas Burgess, a farmer, and Mary J. (Edwards) Burgess.
John studied history at Amherst College, graduating in 1867, then at the universities of Göttingen, Leipzig, and Berlin for a number of years, where he studied under distinguished German scholars of the time: the historian Johann Gustav Droysen, the economist Wilhelm Roscher, the historian Theodor Mommsen, whose linking history with law strongly influenced Burgess's own approach, and Rudolf von Gneist.
John spent most of his career at Columbia University and is regarded as having been "the most influential political scientist" of the period. He was much influenced by the training in research methods characteristic of German universities of the time. He sought to import these methods of research and scholarship, first to Amherst (unsuccessfully) and later to Columbia.
He maintained a lifelong interest in German-American relations. In 1876, Burgess was appointed to a professorship in the Law School of what later became Columbia University, a post he held until his 1912 retirement. While at Columbia, Burgess taught constitutional law but more importantly, was instrumental in founding the discipline of political science in the United States. In 1886, he founded the Political Science Quarterly.
He died on January 13, 1931 aged 86 in Brookline, Norfolk County, United States.
For years, he was memorialized on the Columbia campus with the designation of the "Burgess-Carpenter Classics Library" within Butler Library.
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Burgess "agreed with the scholarly consensus that blacks were inferior," and wrote that "black skin means membership in a race of men which has never of itself succeeded in subjecting passion to reason, has never, therefore, created any civilization of any kind."
Burgess married Augusta Thayer Jones in 1869. After her death he married Ruth Payne Jewett in 1885, with whom he had a daughter Elisha Payne Jewett.