Bernard Bailyn

geb. Hartford, Connecticut, am 10. September 1920
Historiker, Schwiegersohn von Marie Jahoda






Bernard Bailyn, Sohn von Charles Bailyn und Esther, geborene Schloss, diente im Zweiten Weltkrieg bei der US-Army und machte 1945 den A.B. am Williams College in Williamstown (Massachusetts). Anschließend studierte er an der Harvard University, wo er 1947 den A.M. und 1953 seinen Ph.D. (History) erhielt. Seither war er Mitglied der Harvard University, seit 1961 als Full Professor, seit 1966 als Winthrop Professor of History, seit 1981 als erster Adams University Professor; Bailyn, heute auch James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History, emeritierte 1993. Außerdem war er 1962 bis 1970 Editor-in-Chief der »John Harvard Library«, 1967 bis 1977 und 1984 bis 1986 Co-Editor der Zeitschrift »Perspectives in American History« sowie 1983 bis 1994 Director des Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History. Er war 1981 President der »American Historical Association« und ist unter anderem Mitglied der »American Academy of Arts and Sciences«. Bailyn wurde zweimal mit dem Pulitzer Prize for History ausgezeichnet: 1968 (»The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution«) und 1987 (»Voyagers to the West«).
Am 18. Juni 1952 heiratete Bailyn die Sozialpsychologin Lotte Lazarsfeld (1930–), heute T. Wilson Professor of Management an der MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Sloan School of Management. Aus der Ehe stammen die Kinder Charles David Bailyn (1959–), heute Professor of Astronomy an der Yale University in New Haven (Connecticut), und John Frederick Bailyn (1962–), heute Assistant Professor of Linguistics (Slawistik) an der State University of New York in Stony Brook (New York).
Bernard Bailyn lebt heute in Belmont, Massachusetts.


Bücher von Bernard Bailyn
  • The New England merchants in the seventeenth century. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press 1955 (= Studies in entrepreneurial history.), viii, 249 S.
  • (Mit Lotte Bailyn) Massachusetts shipping, 1697–1714. A statistical study. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 1959, xi,148 S.
  • Education in the forming of American society. Needs and opportunities for study. Chapel Hill, N.C.: Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture at Williamsburg, Va., by the University of North Carolina Press 1960 (= Needs and opportunities for study series. 3.), xii, 147 S.
  • (Herausgeber) Robert Keayne: The apologia of Robert Keayne. The last will and testament of me, Robert Keayne, all of it written with my own hands and began by me, mo:6:1:1653, commonly called August. The self-portrait of a puritan merchant. Edited by Bernard Bailyn. New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row 1965 (= Harper Torchbooks.), xii, 93 S. Zuerst in: Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Bd. XLII, Transactions 1952–1956 (1964).
  • (Herausgeber) Pamphlets of the American Revolution, 1750–1776. Edited by Bernard Bailyn with the assistance of Jane N. Garrett. Vol. 1: 1750–1765. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 1965 (= The John Harvard library.), xiv, 771 S.
  • The ideological origins of the American Revolution. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 1967, xiii, 335 S. Anmerkung: »An enlarged version of the General introduction, in the author's Pamphlets of the American Revolution, v. 1, published in 1965.«
  • The origins of American politics. New York, N.Y.: Knopf 1968 (= The Charles K. Colver lectures, Brown University. 1965.), xi, 161, xii S. Zuerst in: Perspectives in American history, Bd. 1 (1967).
  • (Herausgeber) The intellectual migration, Europe and America, 1930–1960. Edited by Donald Fleming and Bernard Bailyn. Cambridge, Mass.: Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, Harvard University 1968 (= Perspectives in American history. 2.), 675 S.
  • (Herausgeber) Law in American history. Edited by Donald Fleming and Bernard Bailyn. Introduction by Byron R. White. Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown 1971 (= Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, Harvard University. Perspectives in American history. 5.), xi, 677 S.
  • The ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 1974, xx, 423 S.
  • (Mit Reginald Victor Jones & John Harold Plumb) Anglo-American intellectual relations. A symposium for the American bicentenary, 1976. Portland, Me.: Longwood 1976, # S.
  • (Mitarbeiter) A Lyme miscellany, 1776–1976. Edited by George J. Willauer, Jr. With introduction by John P. Demos. Middletown, Conn: Wesleyan University Press 1977, xi, 288 S.
  • (Mitarbeiter) The Great Republic. A history of the American people. Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown 1977, 1267, xlix S.
  • (Herausgeber) The press and the American Revolution. Edited by Bernard Bailyn and John B. Hench, with a foreword by Marcus A. McCorison and an afterword by James Russell Wiggins. Worcester, Mass.: The American Antiquarian Society 1980, 383 S.
  • History and the creative imagination. St. Louis, Mo.: Washington University Press 1985, 20 S.
  • (Mit Donald Fleming & Oscar Handlin & Stephan Thernstrom) Glimpses of the Harvard past. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press 1986 ix, 149 S.
  • The peopling of British North America. An introduction. New York, N.Y.: Knopf 1986 (= The Curti lectures. 1985.), xiii, 177 S.
  • Voyagers to the west. A passage in the peopling of America on the eve of the Revolution. With the assistance of Barbara DeWolfe. New York, N.Y.: Knopf, distributed by Random House 1986, xxvii, 667 S.
  • Bernard Bailyn: From Protestant peasants to Jewish intellectuals. The Germans in the peopling of America. – Heinrich August Winkler: Causes and consequences of the German catastrophe. Oxford–New York, N.Y.: Berg for the German Historical Institute 1988 (= Annual lecture series, German Historical Institute. 1.), 26 S.
  • Faces of revolution. Personalities and themes in the struggle for American independence. New York, N.Y.: Knopf 1990 (= A Borzoi book.), xiv, 296 S.
  • (Herausgeber) Strangers within the realm. Cultural margins of the first British Empire. Edited by Bernard Bailyn and Philip D. Morgan. Chapel Hill, N.C.–London: Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press 1991, vii, 456 S. Enthält: The marginal kingdom. Ireland as a problem in the first British empire. – Scotland and the uses of the Atlantic empire. – »The customes of our countrey«. Indians and colonists in early America. – British encounters with Africans and African-Americans, circa 1600–1780. – »The origin of whatever is not English among us«. The Dutch-speaking and German-speaking peoples of colonial British America. – Reluctant Creoles. The planters' world in the British West Indies. – The cultural landscape of early Canada. – Who cared about the colonies? The impact of the thirteen colonies on British society and politics, circa 1714–1775.
  • (Herausgeber) The Debate on the Constitution. Federalist and antifederalist speeches, Articles, and letters during the struggle for ratification. Part one: September 1787 to February 1788. New York, N.Y.: Library of America, distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by Viking Press 1993 (= The Library of America. 62.), xxii, 1214 S. Enthält: Debates in the press and in private correspondence, September 17, 1787–January 12, 1788. – Debates in the state ratifying conventions: Pennsylvania, November 20–December 15, 1787; Connecticut, January 3–9, 1788; Massachusetts, January 9–February 7, 1788.
  • (Herausgeber) The debate on the constitution. Federalist and antifederalist speeches, articles, and letters during the struggle for ratification. Part two: January to August 1788. New York, N.Y.: Library of America, distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by Viking Press 1993 (= The Library of America. 63.), xxi, 1175 S. Enthält: Debates in the press and in private correspondence, January 14–August 9, 1788. – Debates in the state ratifying conventions: South Carolina, May 12–24, 1788; Virginia, June 2–27, 1788; New York, June 17–July 26, 1788; North Carolina, July 21–August 4, 1788.
  • On the teaching and writing of history. Responses to a series of questions. Edited by Edward Connery Lathem. Hanover, N.H.: Montgomery Endowment, Dartmouth College 1994, 97 S.
  • Context in history. Melbourne: La Trobe University 1995 (= North American studies Bernard Bailyn lecture. 1.), 32 S.
  • The Federalist papers. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress 1998 (= A Bradley lecture series publication.), 31 S.
  • American constitutionalism, Atlantic dimensions. The inaugural Caroline Robbins lecture, 2001. [London]: University of London, Institute of United States Studies 2002, 32 S.
  • To begin the world anew. The genius and ambiguities of the American founders. New York, N.Y.: Knopf 2003, x, 185 S.
  • Atlantic history. Concept and contours. Cambridge, Mass.–London: Harvard University Press 2005, 149 S.
Festschrift für Bernard Bailyn
  • The transformation of early American history. Society, authority, and ideology. Edited by James A. Henretta, Michael Kammen, and Stanley N. Katz. New York, N.Y.: Knopf 1991, vi, 340 S.
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