Albert Shaw | |
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 Albert Shaw,c. 1899 | |
| Born | (1857-07-23)July 23, 1857 |
| Died | June 25, 1947(1947-06-25) (aged 89) |
| Alma mater | Johns Hopkins University |
| Scientific career | |
| Doctoral advisor | Richard T. Ely |
Albert Shaw (July 23, 1857 – June 25, 1947) was an American journalist and academic.
Born inShandon, Ohio, to the family of Dr. Griffin M. Shaw, Albert Shaw moved to Iowa in the spring of 1875, where he attendedIowa College (now Grinnell College) specializing in constitutional history and economic science and graduated in 1879. While a student, Shaw also worked as a journalist at theGrinnell Herald. In 1881 he enteredJohns Hopkins University as a graduate student.
In 1883, Shaw secured a position on theMinneapolis Tribune but returned to Johns Hopkins to complete a Ph.D. His thesis, "Icaria: A Chapter in the History of Communism", was later translated and published in Germany. After graduation, he resumed work at theTribune.
In 1888, Shaw took a sociological tour of Britain and the European continent. There he met British journalist and reformerWilliam Thomas Stead, editor of the British journalReview of Reviews.
In the autumn of 1890 Shaw was elected professor of international law and political institutions atCornell University but resigned the post in 1891 to accept Stead's invitation to establishThe American Review of Reviews as an American edition of theReview of Reviews. Shaw served as editor-in-chief of this publication until it ceased publication in 1937, ten years before his death at the age of ninety.
Shaw married Elizabeth Leonard Bacon ofReading, Pennsylvania, on September 5, 1893.
Shaw was elected a member of theAmerican Antiquarian Society in October 1893.[1] He was a leader of theSouthern Education Board.
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