John Burgess
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John Burgess (1844–1931) was an American academic, working in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Burgess was born in Tennessee. In his early life he fought for the Union army in the American Civil War before turning to academia. He studied at Amherst College, graduating in 1867. Burgess studied in Germany for a number of years after graduating from Amherst. He was highly influenced by the advanced research training taking place in German universities at the time. He sought to import these methods of research and scholarship to the United States, first to Amherst (unsuccessfully), and finally to Columbia.
Burgess was later to become professor of political science and constitutional law at Columbia College in 1876. Whilst at Columbia, Burgess was responsible for founding the Political Science Quarterly in 1886. He was instrumental in establishing the Faculty of Political Science, the first major institutionalized program in the United States granting the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, and was a member of the Dunning School of Reconstruction For his efforts at Columbia, he is widely regarded as one of the founders of modern political science.
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Miner, Dwight (1954). A History of Columbia College on Morningside. New York: Morningside Heights: Columbia University Press.
- John W. Burgess
- Burgess, John W. Reconstruction and the Constitution 1866-1876. (New York, 1902).
