Sydney Eckman Ahlstrom

Background

Ahlstrom was born in Cokato, Minnesota, the son of Joseph T. Ahlstrom (1878-1942) and Selma (Eckman) Ahlstrom (1881-1976), who were Swedish American Lutherans.

Education

He graduated from Gustavus Adolphus College in Saint Peter, Minnesota with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1941, and served in the United States. Army during World World War World War II

Career

He was a Yale University professor and a specialist in the religious history of the United States. He earned a master"s degree at the University of Minnesota in 1946 and a Doctor of Philosophy at Harvard University in 1952. He was a Fulbright fellow at the University of Strasbourg, France, and an instructor at Harvard before joining Yale in 1954.

In 1979 he was awarded The Christian Century Award for the Decade"s Most Outstanding Book on Religion.

At the time of his retirement from Yale in 1984 he held the position of Samuel Knight Professor of American History and Modern Religious History. He died on July 3, 1984 in New Haven, Connecticut.

Achievements

• In 1973 he received the National Book Award in category Philosophy and Religion for A Religious History of the American People (1972). He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1978.

Works

• book

  • A Religious History of the American People

    ( This classic work, winner of the 1973 National Book Awa...)

  • A Religious History of the American People

    ( This classic work, winner of the 1973 National Book Awa...)

  • A Religious History of the American People

    (This classic work, winner of the 1973 National Book Award...)

  • A Religious History of the American People 6th printing (ISBN#0300017626) (ISBN#0300017626)

    (Watch them and hear them all! The frontier preachers, the...)

  • A Religious History of The American People Volume 1 (Volume 1)

    (A Religious History of The American People)

  • The American protestant encounter with world religions (The Brewer lectures on comparative religion)
  • The Harvard Divinity School : Its Place in Harvard University and in American Culture
  • Religious History of the American People by Sydney E. Ahlstrom (1972-10-26)

Membership

American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Connections

Father:

Joseph T. Ahlstrom

Mother:

Selma (Eckman) Ahlstrom

Spouse:

Nancy Ethel Alexander

child:

Constance Burton Ahlstrom

child:

Promise Ann Ahlstrom

child:

Sydney Eckman Ahlstrom

child:

Joseph Alexander Ahlstrom