Who is Jacques Barzun?

“Jacques Barzun: An Appreciation”. Wall Street Journal.(subscription required) ^ “Jacques Barzun, “Baseball’s Best Cultural Critic”, Turns His Back on the Game”. bleacherreport.com. July 6, 2009. Retrieved October 26, 2012. ^ Holley, Joe (October 26, 2012). “Jacques Barzun, wide-ranging cultural historian, dies at 104”. Washington Post.

What subjects did Barzun write about?

He wrote about a wide range of subjects, including baseball, mystery novels, and classical music, and was also known as a philosopher of education. In the book Teacher in America (1945), Barzun influenced the training of schoolteachers in the United States.

What did William Barzun do for supernatural?

Barzun was also an advocate of supernatural fiction, and wrote the introduction to The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural. Barzun was a proponent of the theatre critic and diarist James Agate, whom he compared in stature to Samuel Pepys.

What happened to George Barzun’s wife?

In 1936, Barzun married Mariana Lowell, a violinist from a prominent Boston family. They had three children: James, Roger, and Isabel. Mariana died in 1979. In 1980, Barzun married Marguerite Lee Davenport. From 1996 the Barzuns lived in her hometown, San Antonio, Texas.

What did George Barzun do for Education?

In the book Teacher in America (1945), Barzun influenced the training of schoolteachers in the United States. A professor of history at Columbia College for many years, he published more than forty books, was awarded the American Presidential Medal of Freedom, and was designated a knight of the French Legion of Honor.

What is Barzun’s philosophy of history?

In his philosophy of writing history, Barzun emphasized the role of storytelling over the use of academic jargon and detached analysis. He concluded in From Dawn to Decadence that “history cannot be a science; it is the very opposite, in that its interest resides in the particulars”.

When did George Barzun write a catalogue of crime?

In 1971, Barzun co-authored (with Wendell Hertig Taylor), A Catalogue of Crime: Being a Reader’s Guide to the Literature of Mystery, Detection, & Related Genres, for which he and his co-author received a Special Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America the following year.