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Delmer Myers Brown (November 20, 1909 – November 9, 2011) was an American academic , historian , writer, translator and Japanologist . He was a professor of Japanese history at the University of California at Berkeley .
Early life, education, and personal life [ edit ]
Brown was born on November 20, 1909, in Harrisonville, Missouri , and grew up in Kansas City, Missouri . In 1925, he moved with his family to Santa Ana, California . He attended Santa Ana Junior College and then Stanford University , where he graduated with a degree in history in 1932.
Instead of going to law school, as originally planned, Brown took a position teaching English at a prestigious Japanese Imperial "Higher School" in Kanazawa, Ishikawa , Japan . It was there that he met and married Mary Nelson Logan in 1934.[1]
During World War II , Brown served as an intelligence officer in the U.S. Navy .[1]
Brown earned his Ph.D. in Japanese history from Stanford in 1946.[2]
In 1987, Mary died after 53 years of marriage. Brown was widowed twice more; by Margaret Young Brown in 2003 and Louise K. Weamer in 2010. He is survived by his companion Pauline Howland, two sisters, a son and three step-children, two granddaughters, and six great-grandchildren.[1]
Brown died on November 9, 2011, following a stroke .[1]
From 1946 to 1977, Brown was a member of the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley. He was chairman of the history department from 1957 to 1961 and 1971 to 1975.[2]
Brown was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship in Japan from 1959 to 1960.[2]
In 1998, Brown started the process of establishing the Japanese Historical Text Initiative (JHTI), which is a searchable online database of Japanese historical documents and English translations. It is part of the Center for Japanese Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.[3] University of Tokyo Press and Japan's National Institute of Japanese Literature .[4]
Selected works [ edit ]
In an overview of writings by and about Brown, OCLC /WorldCat lists roughly 40+ works in 80+ publications in 4 languages and 1,500+ library holdings.[5]
Nationalism in Japan: An Introductory Historical Analysis, 1955
Japan, 1967
The future and the Past: A Translation and Study of the Gukanshō, an Interpretative History of Japan Written in 1219 by Jien, 1979
Chronology of Japan = 日本の歴史, 1987
An Introduction to Advanced Spoken Japanese, 1987
The Cambridge History of Japan, Vol. 1, Ancient Japan , 1993
References [ edit ]
^ Institute of East Asian Studies (IEAS) at University of California, Berkeley, "Japanese Historical Text Initiative (JHTI)" ; retrieved 2019-08-23.
^ "In Memoriam-Delmer Brown" . Retrieved August 23, 2019 .
^ WorldCat Identities Archived December 30, 2010, at the Wayback Machine : Brown, Delmer Meyers (1909- ) ; retrieved 2013-08-22.
^ "Delmer Brown honored" at HNet.com ; retrieved 2012-08-22.
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