John Corwin Rule, was a widely respected historian of seventeenthand eighteenth-century French history at the Ohio State University from 1958 to 1995.
Background
The son of Corwin Rule and Elaine Rule, John Rule attended Broad Ripple High School in Indianapolis, Indiana and went on to graduate from Stanford University with a bachelor"s degree and a master"s degree in history in 1952 with a thesis on "Nicolas de Lamoignon de Basville and the Protestants of the Languedoc, 1685-1702." He went on to Harvard University, where he completed his doctorate in history in 1958 with a thesis on "The preliminary negotiations leading to the Peace of Utrecht, 1709-1712".
Education
Harvard University; Stanford University.
Career
In his final year of graduate study at Harvard in 1957-1958, Rule taught history at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, then joined the faculty at the Ohio State University, where he retired as professor emeritus in 1995. The Ohio State University Foundation established in his memory the Elaine South. and John C. Rule Study Abroad Fund for graduate student traveling