Title:

Robert Brentano papers, approximately 1950-2002

Creator/Contributor:

Brentano, Robert, 1926-2002, creator, creator.

Contains correspondence, course materials, University of California, Berkeley administrative records, research materials and writings, and some photographic materials.

Date:

1950 (issued)

Subject:

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Constitutional history -- England

Church and state -- Italy -- History

Histoire constitutionnelle -- Angleterre

Église et État -- Italie -- Histoire

Church and state

Constitutional history

Italy -- Church history

England -- Church history

Italie -- Histoire religieuse

Angleterre -- Histoire religieuse

England

Italy

Brentano, Robert -- 1926-2002 -- Archives

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Gift of Margaret Brentano 2020.

Robert Brentano was born in Evansville, Indiana in 1926. After his freshman year at Swarthmore College Brentano served as a Japanese translator for the Manila War Crimes Tribunal in the United States Army from 1943 to 1945. He returned to Swarthmore and graduated in 1949, and then was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship and attended Oxford University where he received a Doctor of Philosophy in 1952. In the same year he accepted a teaching position at the University of California, Berkeley, where he taught for the next 50 years. An esteemed scholar in medieval Italian church history, Brentano was equally dedicated to his role as teacher, mentor, and administrator on the Berkeley campus. He was chair of the History Department from 1975 through 1978; Faculty Research Lecturer in 1988, and chair of the Academic Senate from 1998-1999, a time when the campus was embroiled in controversy over support for the Ethnic Studies Department. He held major fellowships-the Guggenheim twice, and he was elected to membership in the Royal Historical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. He held the presidencies of the Catholic Historical Association, 1983 and the Medieval Academy of America, 1999. The Council for the Advancement and Support of Education named him California Professor of the Year in 1986, and in 1993 the Berkeley Division of the Academic Senate awarded him the Clark Kerr Award "for distinguished and extraordinary contributions to the advancement of higher education." Professor Brentano continued to teach at Berkeley until he passed away in November, 2022.

Robert Brentano papers, BANC MSS 2021/171, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

In English and Italian

Type:

faculty papers.

Archives

Church history

History

print

37 (29 1 1 oversixe box)

English

Origin:

California

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