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Biography of Abbott Lawrence Lowell
Name: Abbott Lawrence Lowell
Birth Date: December 13, 1856
Death Date: January 16, 1943
Place of Birth: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: political scientist, college president
Abbott Lawrence Lowell
The American college president and political scientist Abbott Lawrence Lowell (1856-1943) strengthened the Harvard undergraduate college during his presidency at the university. As a political scientist, he stressed the role of parties in government.On Dec. 13, 1856, Abbott Lawrence Lowell was born into one of the leading families of Boston society. When he received his bachelor's degree from Harvard University in 1877, he was the sixth in an unbroken series of generations of alumni.Although he earned a degree from the Harvard Law School in 1880 and opened a law office in Boston, Lowell found this profession uninteresting and began writing articles on political science, collected into a book, Essays on Government (1889). He went on to compose a two-volume comparative study, Government and Parties in Continental Europe (1896), which led to his appointment to the Harvard faculty in 1897.Lowell insisted on the value of careful observation of actual political practice rather than theoretical speculation, and …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…In the 1920s Lowell aroused great controversy when appointed by the governor of Massachusetts to a committee to review the murder conviction of Sacco and Vanzetti, because he strongly affirmed the justice of that decision. He died on Jan. 16, 1943. Associated Organizations Further Reading Lowell detailed his educational ideas in At War with Academic Traditions in America (1934) and What a University President Has Learned (1938). The only full-scale biography of Lowell is Henry A. Yeomans, Abbott Lawrence Lowell, 1856-1943 (1948). His life is sketched in the context of his family background in a chapter of Ferris Greenslet, The Lowells and Their Seven Worlds (1946). His services at Harvard are analyzed in two books by Samuel Eliot Morison, The Development of Harvard University since the Inauguration of President Eliot, 1869-1929 (1930) and Three Centuries of Harvard, 1636-1936 (1965).Pusey, Nathan March, Lawrence Lowell and his revolution, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University, 1980. Yeomans, Henry Aaron, Abbott Lawrence Lowell, 1856-1943, New York: Arno Press, 1977, 1948.
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