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Robert Middlekauff | |
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| 5th Director of the Huntington Library | |
| In office September 1, 1983 – December 31, 1987 | |
| Preceded by | James Thorpe |
| Succeeded by | Robert Skotheim Martin Ridge (interim) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | July 5, 1929 |
| Died | March 10, 2021 (aged 91) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | History |
Sub-discipline | Colonial and early US history |
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Robert Lawrence Middlekauff (July 5, 1929 – March 10, 2021) was a professor of colonial and early United States history at the University of California, Berkeley.
In 1983, Middlekauff became the Director of Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California, until 1987. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1984. In 1987, Middlekauff became a professor at UC Berkeley.
Middlekauff is best known for The Glorious Cause, a history of the American Revolutionary War, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1983. He was the Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professor of American History in 1996–97. In 1997, he was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1997.
He was born in Yakima, Washington. Middlekauff died at the age of 91 from complications of a stroke on March 10, 2021, in Pleasanton, California.
Historian Robert Middlekauff will become director of the Huntington Library, Art Gallery and Botanical Gardens on Sept. 1, the Huntington is expected to announce today. Middlekauff, 53, is the Margaret Byrne Professor of American History and provost and dean of the College of Letters and Science at UC Berkeley. He succeeds James Thorpe, 67, Huntington director since 1966, who is retiring.
Middlekauff Named Head Of Huntington Library. Robert Middlekauff has been appointed director of the Huntington Library, Art Gallery and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, Calif., effective Sept. 1. Mr. Middlekauff is the Margaret Byrne Professor of American History and provost and dean of the College of Letters and Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He takes over the Huntington, known for its research library of American and English history and literature and its collection of 18th- and 19th-century English paintings, at a time when the private, nonprofit institution is attracting ever larger numbers of visitors and scholars.
Robert Middlekauff resigned from the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens after four years as its director. Effective Jan. 1, 1988, he will become a professor of history at UC Berkeley, where he previously spent 21 years as a professor and administrator.