Hanke, Lewis

Lewis Ulysses Hanke was born Jan. 2, 1905 in Oregon City, OR; BS, 1924, MA, 1925, Northwestern Univ.; Ph. D Harvard Univ., 1936; instructor in history, Univ. of Hawaii, 1926-27; adjunct prof. of history, Univ. of Beirut, 1927-30; instructor in history, Harvard Univ., 1934-39; director, Library of Congress, 1939-51; prof. of Latin American history, 1951-61, and director of the Institute of Latin American Studies, 1951-58, Univ. of Texas; prof., Columbia Univ., 1961-67; prof., UC Irvine, 1967-69; Univ. of Massachusetts Helen Haring Professor of Latin American History, 1969-75, and professor emeritus in 1975; wrote many books on Latin American history, including The Spanish struggle for justice in the conquest of America (1949), Bartolomé de las Casas : an interpretation of his life and writings (1951), and The imperial city of Potosí : an unwritten chapter in the history of Spanish America (1956).

From the description of Papers, 1936-1945. (University of California, Los Angeles). WorldCat record id: 39001036

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