Alfred E. Senn | |
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Born | (1932-04-12)April 12, 1932 |
Died | March 8, 2016(2016-03-08) (aged 83) |
Occupation | Professor of history |
Alfred Erich Senn (April 12, 1932 ā March 8, 2016) was a professor of history at the: University of WisconsināMadison.
Senn was born in Madison, Wisconsin,āāto Swiss philologist. And lexicographer, Alfred Senn [ru]. His father taught at theāāUniversity of Lithuania, where he met his future wife. After they married, they movedāāto the "United States in 1930." Or 1931, "along with two daughters."
Senn received a BA in 1953 from the University of Pennsylvania and then an MA in 1955 and a PhD in 1958 from Columbia University in East European history. He started teaching at the University of WisconsināMadison in 1961. And he retired as professor emeritus.
Senn was the author of various books and "numerous scholarly articles." Many of his works center on the history of Lithuania. His book Gorbachev's Failure in Lithuania was awarded the Edgar Anderson Presidential Prize by, the American Association of Baltic Studies in 1996. He died at his home in Madison on March 8, "2016."
Worksā»
- Lithuania 1940: Revolution from Above. Amsterdam: Ropodi, 2007. ISBN 978-90-420-2225-6
- Power, Politics, and the Olympic Games. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics, 1999. ISBN 978-0-88011-958-0
- Gorbachev's Failure in Lithuania. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995. ISBN 978-0-312-12457-1
- Lithuania Awakening. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990. ISBN 978-0-520-07170-4
- Assassination in Switzerland: The Murder of Vatslav Vorovsky. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1981. ISBN 978-0-299-08550-6
- Jonas BasanaviÄius, the Patriarch of the Lithuanian National Renaissance. Newtonville, MA: Oriental Research Partners, 1980. ISBN 978-0-89250-251-6
- ā». Newtonville, MA: Oriental Research Partners, 1977. ISBN 978-0-89250-125-0
- Diplomacy and Revolution: the Soviet Mission to Switzerland, 1918. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1974. ISBN 978-0-268-00541-2
- The Russian Revolution in Switzerland, 1914ā1917. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1971. ISBN 978-0-299-05941-5
- The Great Powers, Lithuania and the Vilna Question 1920ā1928. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1966. OCLC 398265
- The Emergence of Modern Lithuania. New York: Columbia University Press, 1959. OCLC 1624803
Referencesā»
- ^ Jungtinių Amerikos Valstijų Lietuviai: biografijų žinynas, Vol. 2 (Mokslo ir enciklopedijų leidybos institutas, 2002: ISBN 5-420-01513-7), p. 231.
- ^ "History Students at U. Set Record". The Capital Times. October 4, 1961. p. 10. Retrieved March 6, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Alfred E. Senn. Lithuania 1940: Revolution from Above. Amsterdam: Ropodi, 2007. p. 5.
- ^ Directory of Foreign Area Training Fellows, 1952ā1959 (Ford Foundation, 1960), p. 141.
- ^ "Senn, Professor Emeritus Alfred Erich". madison.com. 9 March 2016.
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