Holdings:
* UM-System
* Columbia
Box 1-033834
Call Number:
(C:6/24/9)
Box 2-016995
Box 3-015785
Box 4-016998
Box 5-033835
Box 6-016997
Record Sub-Group: 3
Records Title: UMC; College of Arts and Science; Department of History; J. O. A. Larsen Papers
Dates: 1932-1971
Volume: 6 cubic feet, 7.5 linear feet
Scope and Content Note
(A86-140; A88-42)
This Record Sub-Group consists of History Professor Jakob A. O. Larsen's collected correspondence, lecture notes, course examinations, and course reading lists. Also included in this Sub-Group are off-prints of scholarly articles, many of which are inscribed to Professor Larsen by their authors.
Biographical Note:
Jakob A. O. Larsen was born in Decorah, Iowa, on the first of March 1888. He received his BA from Luther College in 1908 and his MA from Yale in 1911. He studied at Oxford University between 1914 and 1920. In 1928, Larsen received his Ph.D. from Harvard. The University of Vermont awarded him the LL.D. in 1953, and Luther College presented him with his D.Litt. in 1961.
Larsen worked as an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Washington from 1921 to 1926. From 1926 through 1929, he served in the same capacity at Ohio State University. He was promoted to Associate Professor and continued in that capacity at Ohio State University until 1930. His academic career next took Larsen to the University of Chicago where he served as Associate Professor of History from 1930 to 1943, Professor from 1943 to 1953, and Professor Emeritus from 1953 to 1971.
Professor Larsen was the managing editor of Classical Philology from 1939 to 1951. He served as the Sather Professor of Classics at the University of California-Berkley in 1954 and as Visiting Professor of History at Rutgers University in 1956 and 1957. He was also Visiting Professor of History at the University of Texas, in 1960, and at the University of Missouri-Columbia from 1960 to 1971. Professor Larsen died in Columbia Missouri, in September of 1974.
Series Descriptions:
This Record Sub-Group is divided into three separate record series. Series One contains a variety of materials that Professor Larsen used in teaching history courses including lectures, schedules, translations of classical texts, examinations, and reading lists. Series Two holds examples of a few of Professor Larsen's published and unpublished articles. Series Three contains signed reprints of works by other authors in the field of history, many of which have been inscribed to Professor Larsen by their authors.
Series Outline:
- Series One - Lectures and Other Class Materials
- Series Two - Articles and Reviews
- Series Three - Signed Off-Prints
Series One - Lectures and Other Class Materials
Box 1
FF 1 - History 309, Roman History, Rutgers University, Fall 1956
FF 2 - History 319, The Medieval History of the Near East (Early), Rutgers University, Fall 1956
FF 3 - History 320, The Medieval History of the Near East (Late), Rutgers University, Spring 1957
FF 4 - History 101, 102, 103: The Ancient World
FF 5 - History 211 and 321M, Greek History (University of Texas, Fall 1958)
FF 6 - History 212 and 321L, Hellenistic History (University of Texas, Spring 1959)
FF 7 - History 213, Roman History
FF 8 - History 301, Greek History
FF 9 - History 306, Roman History
FF 10 - History 311B/211, Greek Political Life
FF 11 - History 313/307, Federal States
FF 12 - History 314, The Punic Wars
FF 13 - History 316, Economic History
FF 14 - History 318, Byzantine History
FF 15 - History 406, Classical Historiography
FF 16 - History 408, Roman Constitution
FF 17 - Constitutional Inscription from Cyrene. Translation from S.E.G. IX, 1, no. 1.
FF 18 - Translations of Various Treaties.
FF 19 - Miscellaneous Lectures I
FF 20 - Miscellaneous Lectures II
Series Two - Articles and Reviews
Box 1 (cont'd)
FF 21 - J.A.O.L. Articles.
FF 22 - Correspondence.
FF 23 - J.A.O.L. Unpublished Articles.
FF 24 - J.A.O.L. Revisions.
Series Two - Articles and Reviews (cont'd)
Box 2
FF 1 - J.A.O.L. Reviews
Series Three - Signed Off-Prints Box 2 (cont'd)
FF 2 - Amandry, Pierre (Oracles)
FF 3 - Andreotti, Roberto (Emperor Licinius)
FF 4 - Aymard, Andre 1 (France, Hellenistic East)
FF 5 - Aymard, Andre 2 (France, Hellenistic East)
FF 6 - Badian, Ernst (Hellenistic)
FF 7 - Badian, Ernst (Rome)
FF 8 - Bean, George E. (Anatolian Inscriptions)
FF 9 - Bengtson, Hermann (Hellenistic World)
FF 10 - Bloch, Herbert (Roman Empire)
FF 11 - Boak, A.E.R. (Byzantine Egypt)
FF 12 - den Boer, W. (Lucius Quietus)
FF 13 - Boethius, Axel (Architecture)
FF 14 - Bradeen, Donald W. (Reviews)
FF 15 - Broneer, Oscar (Isthmia)
FF 16 - Broneer, Oscar (Reviews)
FF 17 - Broughton, T.R.S. (Magistracies, Institutions in the Roman Republic)
FF 18 - Cary, M. (Persian War, Julius Caesar, et al.)
FF 19 - Chambers, Mortimer (Themistocles)
FF 20 - Charlesworth, Martin Percival (Roman Ruler Cult)
FF 21 - Combellack, Frederick M. (Homer)
FF 22 - Cormack, J.M.R. (Macedonian Inscriptions)
FF 23 - Crawford, Michael (Roman Coinage)
Series Three - Signed Off-Prints (cont'd) Box 3
FF 1 - Daux, G. (Mainly Bulletin de Correspondence Hellenique, 1941-78)
FF 2 - Daux, G. (Greek History)
FF 3 - de Laet, S.J. (Late Roman Empire)
FF 4 - de Ste. Croix, G.E.M. (Greek and Roman Law)
FF 5 - de Sanctis, Gaetano (Miletus, Imperator, Reviews)
FF 6 - Dow, Sterling (Athens, Corinthiaca)
FF 7 - Dow, Sterling (Athens)
FF 8 - Dusanic, Slobodan (Late Roman Empire)
FF 9 - Edgerton, William F. (Egypt and the Near East)
FF 10 - Ehrenberg, Victor (Greek Political Thought)
FF 11 - Eiterm, S. (Greek: Textual Criticism)
FF 12 - Ferguson, William Scott (Greek History)
FF 13 - Finley, M.I. (Ancient World)
FF 14 - Frank, Tenney and Gaul
FF 15 - Frank, Tenney (Roman Financial History)
FF 16 - Franke, Peter Robert (Hellenistic Coinage)
FF 17 - Fuks, Alexander (Jewish Revolt)
FF 18 - Gabba, Emilio (Christian Martyr, Apollonius)
FF 19 - Ghinati, Franco (Roman Italy)
FF 20 - Gomme, A.W. (Greek History)
FF 21 - Gordon, Arthur E. (Latin Inscriptions)
FF 22 - Grace, Virginia (Greek Amphorae)
FF 23 - Grube, G.M.A. (Greek and Latin Classics)
FF 24 - van Groningen, B.A. (Empedocles, Aeschylus, Hadrian, etc.)
FF 25 - Gschnitzer, Fritz (Greek World)
FF 26 - Hammond, Mason (Roman History)
FF 27 - Hampl, Franz (Roman Republic)
FF 28 - Hawthorne, John (Corinth)
FF 29 - Heichelheim, Fritz (Roman history)
FF 30 - Jameson, Michael H. (Boeotia, Argolid)
Series Three - Signed Off-Prints (cont'd)
Box 4
FF 1 - Kahrstedt, Ulrich (Greece)
FF 2 - Kanatsoulis, D. (Macedon)
FF 3 - Kent, John H. (Caesar, Greek Inscriptions)
FF 4 - Klaffenbach, Gunther (Greek Inscriptions)
FF 5 - Laistner, M.L.WL (Early Medieval History)
FF 6 - Last, Hugh (Roman Empire)
FF 7 - Latte, Kurt (Roman History)
FF 8 - Levy, Ernst (Roman Law)
FF 9 - Lewis, Naphtali (Roman Egypt)
FF 10 - McDonald, A.H. (Roman Republic)
FF 11 - McFayden, Donald (Imperial Authority)
FF 12 - McGregor, Malcolm F. (6th - 5th Century BC Athens)
FF 13 - Malamat, Abraham (Israelite Monarchy)
FF 14 - Martin, Victor (Papyrology)
FF 15 - Meritt, Benjamin Dean (Athenian Tribute Lists, et al.)
FF 16 - Meritt, Benjamin Dean (Hesperia Articles)
FF 17 - Meyer, Ernst (Roman History)
FF 18 - Michell, H. (Economic History)
FF 19 - Momigliano, Arnaldo (Historiography)
FF 20 - Moretti, Luigi (Roman Greece)
FF 21 - Mullett, Charles F. (18th and 19th Century British History)
FF 22 - Nilsson, Martin P. (Ancient Religion)
FF 23 - Nock, Arthus Darby (Ancient Religion)
Series Three - Signed Off-Prints (cont'd)
Box 5
FF 1 - Oliver, James H. (Rome in the East, Epigraphic)
FF 2 - Oliver, Revilo P. (Latin)
FF 3 - Oliverio, Gaspare (Cyrene)
FF 4 - Oost, Stewart Irvin (Late Roman Empire)
FF 5 - Olmstead, A.T. (Ancient World and the Bible)
FF 6 - Panagopoulos, E.P. (Greek History and Influences)
FF 7 - Passerini, Alfredo (Late Roman Republic, Early Empire)
FF 8 - Pearson, Lionel (Classical Greece)
FF 9 - Petsas, Photios M. (Pella)
FF 10 - Pflaum, H.G. (Provinces of Roman Empire)
FF 11 - Piganiol, Andre (Roman History)
FF 12 - Pritchett, W. Kendrick (Epigraphy)
FF 13 - Raubitschek, Antony E. (Greek History)
FF 14 - Reinmuth, O.W. (Ephebia)
FF 15 - Robinson, David Moore (Olynthus, et al.)
FF 16 - Rostovtzeff, Michael (Mesopotamia)
FF 17 - Samuel, Alan E. (Rome in Egypt)
FF 18 - Robert, Louis (Anatolia)
FF 19 - de Salvo, L. (Thrace)
FF 20 - Sartori, Franco (Italy)
FF 21 - Schaeffer, Hans (Greek History)
FF 22 - Scramuzza, Vincent (Greek Colonization)
FF 23 - Scullard, H.H. (Roman History)
FF 24 - Skard, Eilivio (Latin Textual Criticism)
FF 25 - Smith, Gertrude (Greek History)
FF 26 - Smith, Stanley Barney (Athens)
FF 27 - Solmsen, Friedrich (Aristotle's Ideal State)
FF 28 - Starr, Chester G. (Ancient History)
Series Three - Signed Off-Prints (cont'd)
Box 6
FF 1 - Strasburger, Hermann (Greece)
FF 2 - Sundwall, Johannes (Miscellaneous Greek)
FF 3 - Swain, Joseph Ward (Roman Empire)
FF 4 - Syme, Ronald (Roman Empire)
FF 5 - Sordi, Marta (Miscellaneous)
FF 6 - Tarn, W.W. (Alexander Helios)
FF 7 - Taylor, Lily Ross (Roman Republic)
FF 8 - Thomas, Homer L. (Archaeology in Northern Europe)
FF 9 - Thompson, D'Arcy W. (Historia Animalium)
FF 10 - Tod, Marcus N. (Greek Epigraphy)
FF 11 - Triantaphyllopoulos, John K. (Reviews, Law)
FF 12 - Triantaphyllopoulos, John K. (Reviews, Law)
FF 13 - Ullman, B. L. (Medieval Latin Texts)
FF 14 - Van Sickle, C.F. (Later Roman Empire)
FF 15 - Vasiliev, A.A. (Byzantine Empire)
FF 16 - Virgilio, Bagio (Greece)
FF 17 - Vlastos, Gregory (Ancient Greek Philosophy)
FF 18 - Walbank, F.W. (Roman Republic)
FF 19 - Walbank, Michael B. (Athens)
FF 20 - Walton, Francis R. (Religion)
FF 21 - Weinberg, Saul S. (Aegean, Palestine)
FF 22 - Welles, C. Bradford (Papyrology)
FF 23 - Wilhelm, Adolf (Greek Epigraphy)
FF 24 - Willets, Ronald F. (Crete)
FF 25 - Wilson, John A. (Near East)
FF 26 - Woodbury, Leonard E. (Theognis, Simonides)
FF 27 - Youtie, Herbert C. (Papyrology)
Restrictions Note: The Archives of the University of Missouri-Columbia is required by law and Board of Curator's policy to restrict access to some files and information. Student records are held as confidential under the Federal Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 and by University policy. Faculty promotion and tenure records and Academic Personnel files are restricted for 75 years, or the lifetime of the individual. All grievance, disciplinary, and medical records are treated as confidential files. Consultations with legal counsel, both in-house and external, are protected by the attorney/client privilege and will not be released.
Lecture notes (from the beginning to the Second Triumvirate), schedule, reading list, final examination.
Lecture notes, schedule, reading list, final examination.
Lecture notes, schedule, final examination.
Reading lists, schedules, tests for History 101: up to the Delian League; History 102: from the
Delian League to C. Gracchus; History 103: from the Roman Revolution to the end of the Empire.
Lecture notes, reading list, mid-term and final examinations.
Lecture notes, reading list, mid-term examination.
Lecture notes, reading list, schedule, "Monumentum Ancyranum" (Latin version).
Lecture notes, miscellaneous reading lists, examinations from 1960-1971.
Lecture notes; telescoped or omitted lectures; miscellaneous reading lists and schedules; examinations from 1961-1971; Metropolitan Opera of the Week, 1963-1964 season; G.E.M. de St. Croix, "Why Were the Early Christians Persecuted," Past and Present 26 (1963) 6-38; G.E.M. de St. Croix, "Why Were the Early Christians Persecuted-A Rejoinder, " Past and Present 27 (1964) 28-33; Von Ernst Meyer, "Hannibals Alpenubergang," Sonderabdruck aus Museum Helveticum 15.4 (1958) 227-241; Rx A.D. Nock of Hans-Joachim Schoeps' Paulus. "Die Theologie des Apostels im Lichte de judischen Religionsgeschichte" in Gnomon 32 (1960) 581-590.
Lecture notes, final examination.
Lecture notes, paper topics.
Lecture notes, paper topics.
Lecture notes; mid-term examinations from 1949, 1951, 1953, 1959; final examinations from 1953, 1959(?) and others -undated; A.H.M. Jones, Ancient Economic History; Axel Boethius article regarding finds at Roman Forum excavation (in Danish).
Lecture notes, reading list, final examination.
Lecture notes on everyone from Herodotos to Rostovtzeff, also papyrology and epigraphy lecture notes, paper topics.
Lectures made up from pertinent 317, 318, 406 notes; reserve readings; course plan.
Duties and Rights of Greek Allies and Neutrals
Finances of the Greek Federal States
The Ancient Federal State
Polybius and the Theory of the Balanced State
Augustus
Anthropology
Alumni I and II
"From Gaul to France via Rome," Chicago Classical Club, 3 December 1932.
Theory of History
Discoveries of Unknown or Forgotten Facts in History
Features of Developed Greek Civilization (5th century)
Pleasures of Scholarship and Study
The Two Introductions of Representative Government in Ancient Greece (Los Angeles - Eugene)
Union vs. Particularism
The Greek City-State
Legacy of Greece
Livy I, II
Polybius
"Isocrates as a Political Theorist," by J.A.O.L. (1921)
19th Century Arcana on Achaians and Aratos
Notes on Aristotle's Poetics.
