2010-12-08
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Title
2010-12-08
Subject
Brown, Dr. Sidney DeVere
Description
Obituaries published in the Augusta Daily Gazette
Creator
Augusta Daily Gazette [Kansas]
Publisher
Augusta Public Library, Augusta, Kansas, USA
Date
2010-12-10
Format
Clippings
Language
English
Type
application/pdf
Identifier
b16#056 2010
Citation
Augusta Daily Gazette [Kansas], “2010-12-08,” Digital Augusta, accessed November 25, 2024, https://augusta.digitalsckls.info/item/2153.
Text
Augusta Daily Gazette I Friday, December 10,
Sidney DeVere Brown
Dr. Sidney DeVere Brown, Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Oklahoma, died at age 85, at his home in Norman, Okla, on Wednesday,
Dec. 8, 2010, after a long illness.
Arrangements for services are pending. Internment will take place at the Elmwood Cemetery in Augusta.
Born on Jan. 29,1925, in a farmhouse near Douglass, he grew up on a wheat and cattle farm not so far from the Flint Hills in Butler County.
He graduated from Augusta High School in 1941. His undergraduate education at Southwestern College, Winfield, Kan., was interrupted by World War II. He served as a naval officer, 1943-1946, completing the intensive 14-month course at the U.S. Navy Japanese Language School at the University of Colorado, Boulder, to mark the beginning of his specialization in Japanese history. He earned an A.B. degree in history and government from Southwestern College in 1947. In 1948, he married his college classmate, Ruth Esther Murray, and began graduate studies in history at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, completing the M.A. and Ph.D., the latter in 1952.
Brown was a professor of history at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater from 1952 to 1971 before moving to Norman to join the University of Oklahoma faculty which he served until his retirement in 1995. He taught courses in East Asian history throughout his career. He offered a popular full-year course in Japanese history that regularly attracted 100 students, in addition to special courses on Chinese history, Korean history, and Southeast Asian history.
His principal research was in nineteenth-century Japanese history, and he was one of the first to write about the history of the Meiji Restoration of 1868 - an event that marked the end of shogun rule and the move to modernize Japanese government and society - along with its principal leaders, based on the primary sources in Japanese. He was the leading American expert on two of those leaders, Kido Takayoshi and Okubo Toshimichi, and his three-volume biography and translation of the Diary of Kido Takayoshi, 1868-1877, was the winner of the Japan Cultural Translation Prize of the Japan Translators Association in Tokyo in 1986. He delivered lectures, and helped produce video about popularity of
Original Format
Newspaper clippings affixed to loose-leaf notebook page
Title
2010-12-08
Subject
Brown, Dr. Sidney DeVere
Description
Obituaries published in the Augusta Daily Gazette
Creator
Augusta Daily Gazette [Kansas]
Publisher
Augusta Public Library, Augusta, Kansas, USA
Date
2010-12-10
Format
Clippings
Language
English
Type
application/pdf
Identifier
b16#056 2010
Citation
Augusta Daily Gazette [Kansas], “2010-12-08,” Digital Augusta, accessed November 25, 2024, https://augusta.digitalsckls.info/item/2153.Text
Augusta Daily Gazette I Friday, December 10,
Sidney DeVere Brown
Dr. Sidney DeVere Brown, Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Oklahoma, died at age 85, at his home in Norman, Okla, on Wednesday,
Dec. 8, 2010, after a long illness.
Arrangements for services are pending. Internment will take place at the Elmwood Cemetery in Augusta.
Born on Jan. 29,1925, in a farmhouse near Douglass, he grew up on a wheat and cattle farm not so far from the Flint Hills in Butler County.
He graduated from Augusta High School in 1941. His undergraduate education at Southwestern College, Winfield, Kan., was interrupted by World War II. He served as a naval officer, 1943-1946, completing the intensive 14-month course at the U.S. Navy Japanese Language School at the University of Colorado, Boulder, to mark the beginning of his specialization in Japanese history. He earned an A.B. degree in history and government from Southwestern College in 1947. In 1948, he married his college classmate, Ruth Esther Murray, and began graduate studies in history at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, completing the M.A. and Ph.D., the latter in 1952.
Brown was a professor of history at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater from 1952 to 1971 before moving to Norman to join the University of Oklahoma faculty which he served until his retirement in 1995. He taught courses in East Asian history throughout his career. He offered a popular full-year course in Japanese history that regularly attracted 100 students, in addition to special courses on Chinese history, Korean history, and Southeast Asian history.
His principal research was in nineteenth-century Japanese history, and he was one of the first to write about the history of the Meiji Restoration of 1868 - an event that marked the end of shogun rule and the move to modernize Japanese government and society - along with its principal leaders, based on the primary sources in Japanese. He was the leading American expert on two of those leaders, Kido Takayoshi and Okubo Toshimichi, and his three-volume biography and translation of the Diary of Kido Takayoshi, 1868-1877, was the winner of the Japan Cultural Translation Prize of the Japan Translators Association in Tokyo in 1986. He delivered lectures, and helped produce video about popularity of
Original Format
Newspaper clippings affixed to loose-leaf notebook page