Background
Alexander, Paul Julius was born on May 12, 1910 in Berlin, Germany. Son of Carl and Anna (Mauthner) Alexander.
Alexander, Paul Julius was born on May 12, 1910 in Berlin, Germany. Son of Carl and Anna (Mauthner) Alexander.
Doctor iuris, U. Hamburg (Germany), 1932. Licence en droit, U. Paris (France), 1934. Doctor of Philosophy in History, Harvard, 1940.
Came to the United States, 1935, naturalized, 1943. Professor history Hobart College, 1945-1954. Professor of history, department chairman Brandeis U., 1954-1958.
Professor of history University of Michigan, 1958-1968. Professor of history and comparative literature University of California, Berkeley, 1968-1977, Research analyst Office of Strategic Services, 1943-1945. Fulbright-Hayes research fellow, Italy, 1965-1966.
Guggenheim fellow, 1951-1952, 65-66. Author: The Patriarch Nicephorus of Constantinople, 1958. Gregorii Nysseni Opera Omnia, VO. V, 1962.
The Oracle of Baalbek, 1967. Religious and Political History and Thought in the Byzantine Empire, 1978. Home: Berkeley, California.
Married Eleanor Eyck, June 21, 1938. Children: Ann Margaret, Lawrence Ernest, Michael Charles.