Hart, Albert Bushnell, 1854-1943

Albert Bushnell Hart (1854-1943), American historian, writer, and editor, taught history and government at Harvard University and Radcliffe College from 1883 to 1926.

Hart was born on July 1, 1854 in Clarksville, Pennsylvania to physician Albert Gaillard Hart and Mary Crosby Hornell Hart. He had a brother, Hastings Hornell Hart, and two sisters, Helen Marcia Hart and Jeannette M. Hart. The family moved to Ohio in 1860, eventually settling in Cleveland, where Hart graduated from West High School in 1871 and worked for several years as a bookkeeper. He attended Harvard College 1876-1880, receiving his B.A. in 1880, and spent a year studying modern constitutional history in the Graduate Department of Arts and Sciences. Hart moved to Germany for further postgraduate work in 1881, studying at University of Berlin and École Normale Supérieure in Paris, and receiving a Ph.D. in history from the University of Freiburg in 1883.

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