Jakob Larsen
Author
1888 – 1974
Who was Jakob Larsen?
Jakob Aall Ottesen Larsen was an American classical scholar.
Larsen was the son of Peter Laurentius Larsen, founding president of Luther College, and his second wife Ingeborg Astrup.
He received a BA from Luther College in 1908 and MA from Yale in 1911. He studied at Oxford University in 1914–1920. In 1928, Larsen received his Ph.D. from Harvard. The University of Vermont awarded him the LL.D. in 1953, and Luther College presented him with his D.Litt. in 1961.
Larsen worked as an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Washington from 1921 to 1926. From 1926 through 1929, he served in the same capacity at Ohio State University. He was promoted to Associate Professor and continued in that capacity at Ohio State University until 1930. In 1930–1943 he served as an Associate Professor of History at the University of Chicago, then as a Professor
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- Born
- Mar 1, 1888
Decorah - Also known as
- Jakob Aall Ottesen Larsen
- J. A. O. Larsen
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- PhD, Harvard University
History
( - 1928) - Yale University
- Luther College
- University of Oxford
- PhD, Harvard University
- Lived in
- Iowa
- Columbia
( - 1974/09/02)
- Died
- Sep 2, 1974
Columbia
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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