Charles Upson Clark

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Charles Upson Clark (1875–1960) was a professor of history at Columbia University. He is known as the person to discover the Barberini Codex (Badianus Manuscript),^[1] the earliest Aztec herbal known to have survived to our times.^[2]

Charles Upson Clark was born to Edward Perkins Clark and Catharine Pickens Upson.^[3] Throughout his life he was the author of many books on a variety of subjects. Among them was the history of West Indies by Antonio Vázquez de Espinosa translated into English,^[4] and the modern history of Romania.^[5]

He also collaborated with the American School of Classical Studies in Rome, where he held a directory of Classical Studies and Archaeology since 1910.^[6]

[edit] Works

• "The Text Tradition of Ammianus Marcellinus", 1904
• "Greater Roumania", Dodd, Mead and Company, 1922. Chapter X
• "Bessarabia, Russia and Roumania on the Black Sea", Dodd, Mead and Company, 1927. Electronic Text Archive

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[edit] References and sources

• Steven Foster, The Badianus Manuscript: The First Herbal from the Americas, 1992
• Azcatitlan Codex
• Bio info
• El Consejo Real y Supremo de las Indias: Su historia, organizacion, y labor administrativo hasta la terminacion de la Casa de Austria
• The Birth of the Romanian State
• Society of Fellows, American Academy in Rome