Obituary for UCLA and University of California University Professor Robert B. Edgerton

What to me as a pediatrician is most fascinating about Erik Erikson is the contrast between his achievements and his own childhood and formal education. You know that he has been Professor of Psychology at the University of California at Berkeley, and for the last 10 years University Professor at Harvard. As you may also know, a University Professor is someone whose knowledge is considered so profound and so broad that he can't be confined to any one University department. Erik Erikson has also been a distinguished psychoanalyst who has expanded significantly the concepts given us by Freud. Yet if he had been your patient in his youth, you would have shaken your head gravely. And if you had been considering him for admission to medical school or to the American Academy of Pediatrics, you would have found him completely lacking in formal qualifications. He was born of Danish parents who separated during his infancy. His mother then took him to live with friends in Germany, where she eventually married her son's doctor. Thus Erik, by adoption, became the son of a pediatrician. He always teases us about this fact. All through school he was a notoriously poor student, except in art and in ancient history. Instead of going on to the university, when he graduated from high school at the age of 18, he became a wanderer. As what we would call today a "hippie" or "alienated person," he wandered for a year through the Black Forest and up to Lake Constance doing nothing that would be called work or study, at least by American standards.

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Cram, Prof. Donald James, (22 April 1919–17 June 2001), University Professor Emeritus, University of California, Los Angeles, since 1990

10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u12227 ◽

2007 ◽

Keyword(s):

Los Angeles ◽

University Of California ◽

Professor Emeritus ◽

University Professor

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Debreu, Prof. Gerard, (4 July 1921–31 Dec. 2004), Professor of Economics, 1962–91, Professor of Mathematics, 1975–91, and University Professor, 1985–91, then Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley

10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u13344 ◽

2007 ◽

Keyword(s):

University Of California ◽

University Professor

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Bishop, Prof. (John) Michael, (born 22 Feb. 1936), Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, since 1972, and of Biochemistry and Biophysics, since 1982, University Professor, since 1994, Director, G. W. Hooper Research Foundation, since 1981, and Chancellor, 1998–2009, now Chancellor Emeritus, University of California, San Francisco

10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u7652 ◽

2007 ◽

Keyword(s):

San Francisco ◽

University Of California ◽

University Professor

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George Dangerfield: A Personal Account

Albion A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies ◽

10.2307/4049430 ◽

1985 ◽

Vol 17 (4) ◽

pp. 405-408

Author(s):

Alfred Gollin

Keyword(s):

Pacific Coast ◽

The United States ◽

University Of California ◽

State University ◽

University Of Alabama ◽

Personal Account ◽

Santa Barbara ◽

The Pacific ◽

University Professor ◽

The University

In March 1985 the Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies devoted its annual meeting to honoring George Dangerfield upon the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of his book, The Strange Death of Liberal England. Scholars from various parts of the United States and from several British Universities came together to pay their respects to Dangerfield, and to talk about his famous history.The principal organizers of the meeting were Professor Peter Stansky of Stanford University; Professor R. J. Q. Adams of Texas A&M University; and Professor Dan Krieger, California Polytechnic State University. These organizers made two requests of me. They invited me to deliver an oral comment upon a paper about Dangerfield which was presented to the conference by Professor Carolyn White of the University of Alabama; and they also asked that I write this essay about “Dangerfield—the man and historian.” The idea was to make his personality known to a wider audience by recalling certain experiences and by relating certain anecdotes which illustrate the character of this remarkable scholar and man of letters.The celebration of the anniversary of The Strange Death of Liberal England actually began a few months earlier when the Chancellor of the University of California, Santa Barbara, Dr. R. A. Huttenback, presented Dangerfield with a University Medal in commemoration of the book. At this ceremony at U.C.S.B. Dangerfield casually remarked that The Strange Death of Liberal England had appeared in nineteen editions and he thought, but was not entirely certain, that a twentieth edition was about to be produced.

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