Edward Buehrig

Edward Henry Buehrig (October 4, 1910 – August 31, 1986) was an American political scientist who spent most of his career at the Indiana University Bloomington. He was known as a leading authority on the foreign policy of Woodrow Wilson.

Edward Buehrig
Buehrig pictured in 1940
Born(1910-10-04)October 4, 1910
Minier, Illinois, United States
DiedAugust 31, 1986(1986-08-31) (aged 75)
Bloomington, Indiana, United States
NationalityAmerican
OccupationProfessor
Academic background
Thesis[Thesis "American intervention in Europe, 1917"]
Academic work
DisciplinePolitical science
Sub-disciplineInternational relations
InstitutionsIndiana University Bloomington
Main interestsWilsonianism

Early life and education

Buehrig was born in Minier, Illinois, and attended Illinois State University where he served as an editor of the Vidette student newspaper.[1][2] He subsequently transferred to the University of Chicago, from which he graduated. Buehrig went on to receive a M.A. in International relations, also from Chicago, with a thesis titled "Why the United States took the Philippines Islands", and later earned a Ph.D. from the same institution with his dissertation, "American Intervention in Europe, 1917".[3][1][4]

Career

In 1934 Buehrig began teaching at Indiana University, where he would remain – except for three, short interludes – until his retirement in 1981. During World War II Buehrig worked in the United States Department of State and served as Secretary-General of the Italo-Yugoslav Boundary Commission;[1][5] after the war he again departed Indiana to spend a year at Princeton University researching the foreign policy of Woodrow Wilson. A third hiatus came in 1957 when he spent one year teaching at the American University of Beirut (AUB).[1] According to Elsa Marston, she met her husband Iliya Harik at an AUB lecture given by Buehrig.[6]

Buehrig served as acting president of the Midwest Political Science Association during 1955.[7] On being appointed chair of the political science department at Indiana in 1980, Elinor Ostrom recalled that she "realized that Professor Buehrig would be retiring within a year [and] I shuddered to think of all the memory and insight about the Department that might be lost to future generations". At Ostrom's request, Buehrig wrote "Political Science at Indiana: An Historical Essay", chronicling the history of the department up to that point.[8]

In May 1986, three months before his death, Illinois State University awarded Buehrig an honorary degree.[9]

Selected publications

References
  1. "Edward H. Buehrig papers, 1945–1984, bulk 1960–1968". indiana.edu. Indiana University. Retrieved 9 July 2016.
  2. "Past Editors of the Vidette". videtteonline.com. Illinois State University Vidette. Retrieved 9 July 2016.
  3. Why the United States took the Philippine Islands. worldcat.org. OCLC. OCLC 13247606. Retrieved 9 July 2016.
  4. "American intervention in Europe, 1917 ... by Edward H. Buehrig ..." lib.uchicago.edu. University of Chicago. Retrieved 9 July 2016.
  5. Military History Network: "Settling the question of Trieste"
  6. Marston Harik, Elsa (Summer 2013). "My Fifty Years with Iliya". Journal of New Media Studies (2).
  7. "Past MPSA Officers". mpsanet.org. Midwest Political Science Association. Archived from the original on 8 March 2014. Retrieved 9 July 2016.
  8. "Political Science at Indiana: An Historical Essay". indiana.edu. Indiana University Bloomington. Retrieved 9 July 2016.
  9. "Edward Buehrig". The Pantagraph. newspapers.com. 7 September 1986. Retrieved 9 July 2016.
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