William Milligan Sloane
(November 12, 1850–September 12, 1928) was an American
educator and historian, born at Richmond, Ohio
.
Biography
He
graduated from Columbia College of
Columbia University in 1868, and afterward was employed at
Pittsburgh
until 1872. While employed in Germany
as private
secretary to George Bancroft, United
States Minister at Berlin
, he studied
history under Mommsen and Droysen.
He was
professor of history at Princeton University
from 1883 to 1896. While there, he edited
the
Princeton Review
(1886-1889). He resigned in 1896 to become professor of history at
Columbia University.
Sloane
served on the International Olympic Committee
from 1894 to 1924. The founder and first
president of the United
States Olympic Committee, he escorted the first American
Olympic team to 1896 Summer
Olympics in Athens
.
Professor Sloane was a member of the
American Academy of Arts
and Letters, and in 1911 president or the
American Historical
Association. His other honors were
Chevalier of the
French Legion of Honor and of the
Order of the Polar
Star.
Publications
- Life and Work of James Renwick Wilson Sloane
(1888)
- The French War and the Revolution (1893)
- The Life of Napoleon
Bonaparte (four volumes, 1896; revised and enlarged
edition, 1911)
- Life of James McCosh
(1896)
- The French Revolution and Religious Reform
(11901)
- Party Government in the United States of America
(1914)
- The Balkans (1914)
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