Frederick John Teggart

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Frederick John Teggart (1870–1946) was an Irish-American historian and social scientist, known for work on the history of civilizations.

Life

He was born in Belfast on 9 May 1870, and was educated at Methodist College Belfast and Trinity College, Dublin. He emigrated to the United States and graduated B.A. at Stanford University in 1894. He then worked as a librarian.^[1]

He had positions at the University of California, becoming Associate Professor there in 1911; in 1919 a new department was set up for him, at Berkeley the Department of Social Institutions. A full professor in 1925, he retired in 1940, although he remained actively engaged in research until shortly before his death. From 1923 Department of Social Institutions at Berkeley.^[1]

Works

Prolegomena to history: the relation of history to literature, philosophy, and science (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1916)
The Processes of History (New Haven, 1918)
Theory of History (1925)
Rome and China: a study of correlations in historical events (1939)

Notes

↑ 1.0 1.1 http://sociology.berkeley.edu/index.php?page=public%20sociology

References

University of California: In Memoriam

External links

Authority control	VIAF: 47535203 ISNI: 0000 0001 2025 1868 SUDOC: 085677973

Persondata
Name	Teggart, Frederick John
Alternative names
Short description	Irish-American historian and social scientist
Date of birth	9 May 1870
Place of birth	Belfast, Northern Ireland
Date of death	1946
Place of death

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