Barzun 100
Celebrating Jacques Barzun’s 100th Year
Jacques Barzun’s centennial website.
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The historian Jacques Barzun was born on November 30, 1907, in Créteil, France, a suburb of Paris. His father was the poet Henri Martin-Barzun (1881–1972), a member of the l’Abbaye group of artists. Mr. Barzun attended Columbia College (A.B. 1927) and University (Ph.D 1932), taught in the Columbia history department, served as Provost, and retired as University Professor in 1975. For the next 18 years he was literary adviser to Charles Scribner’s Sons. Mr. Barzun now lives in San Antonio, Texas.
Among the many books Mr. Barzun has written are: Race: A Study in Superstition, Darwin, Marx, Wagner: Critique of a Heritage, Teacher in America, Berlioz and the Romantic Century, The Energies of Art, Music in American Life, The Modern Researcher (with Henry F. Graff), God’s Country and Mine, A Catalogue of Crime (with Wendell Hertig Taylor), The House of Intellect, Science: The Glorious Entertainment, The American University, Simple and Direct: A Rhetoric for Writers, A Stroll with William James, From Dawn to Decadence, and Sidelights on Opera at Glimmerglass. A Jacques Barzun Reader and other collections by various editors contain selections from Mr. Barzun’s writings.
(See more at the J B website.)
