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Louis R. Gottschalk

American historian

Louis R. Gottschalk
Gottschalk, c. 1959
Born	Louis Gottschalk (1899-02-21)February 21, 1899 Brooklyn, New York City, U.S.
Died	June 23, 1975(1975-06-23) (aged 76) Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Education	Cornell University (A.B., A.M., Ph.D.)
Discipline	History, History of the French Revolution
Institutions	University of Illinois, University of Louisville, University of Chicago, University of Illinois at Chicago

Louis Reichenthal Gottschalk (February 21, 1899 – June 23, 1975^[1]^[2]) was an American historian, an expert on the Marquis de Lafayette and the French Revolution. He taught at the University of Chicago, where he was the Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor of History.^[3]^[4]

Early life and education

He was born Louis Gottschalk, the sixth of eight children of Morris and Anna (née Krystal) Gottschalk, Jewish immigrants in Brooklyn from Poland.^[2] He graduated from Cornell University with an A.B. in 19

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Louis Moreau Gottschalk (May 8, 1829 – December 18, 1869) was an American composer and pianist, best known as a virtuoso performer of his own romantic piano music pieces. Though he only lived for forty years, he became the most prominent American composer and pianist of his time. His biographer, Frederick Starr, an American anthropologist, attested Gottschalk had achieved an astonishing list of "firsts."

Starr wrote, "He was the first American composer to be hailed in Europe, the first American piano virtuoso to be acclaimed by Frédéric Chopin, (Chopin predicted that he would become the 'king of pianists'), the first American composer to erase the hard line dividing 'serious' and 'popular' genres, the first to introduce American themes into European classical music, the first Pan-American artist in any field and was among the first American artists to champion the causes of abolitionism, public education, and popular democracy."

Perhaps his greatest contribution to American music was incorporating the syncopatedrhythmic elements of C

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Louis Gottschalk

Presidential Address

A Professor of History in a Quandary

In Memoriam

From the American Historical Review 81:2 (April 1976)

Louis Gottschalk (February 21, 1899–June 23, 1975), president of the American Historical Association in 1953, died in Chicago on June 23, 1975. Born in Brooklyn in 1899, he received both his bachelor’s and doctorate degrees at Cornell University, where along with his friend and contemporary, the late Leo Gershoy, he was introduced to European history and in particular to the study of the French Revolution by Carl Becker. His first teaching years were spent at the universities of Illinois and of Louisville, but in 1927 he became associate professor at the University of Chicago, where he was department chairman from 1937 to 1942, and thereafter became Gustavus F. and Ann Swift Distinguished Service Professor. After his retirement in 1964 he taught full time for several years, and then part time, at the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle.

Gottschalk’s talents revealed themselves early, and he remained prominent a