Artz, Frederick Binkerd, 1894-1983

Frederick Binkerd Artz was born in 1894 in Dayton, Ohio. He graduated from Oberlin College in 1916 with the A.B. in history and joined the U.S. Army Ambulance Camp in Allentown, Pennsylvania in September 1917. He saw duty at Contrexeville in the Vosges mountains of France from December 1917 until the war's end. After a term of study at the University of Toulouse, he began graduate work in history at Harvard University, receiving the M.A. degree in 1920 and the Ph. D. degree in 1924. He taught European intellectual history at Oberlin College from 1924 to 1961. He died in 1983.

From the description of Papers, 1876-1983, 1927-1981. (Oberlin College Library). WorldCat record id: 26208922