Adrienne Koch (September 10, 1912 – August 21, 1971) was an American historian. Her specialty was American history of the eighteenth century.

Education

After her bachelor's degree from

New York University New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded by a group of New Yorkers led by then- Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin. In 1832, th ...

, Koch took her master's degree and a doctorate in philosophy from Columbia.

Teaching career

Koch taught at

Tulane University Tulane University, officially the Tulane University of Louisiana, is a private research university in New Orleans, Louisiana. Founded as the Medical College of Louisiana in 1834 by seven young medical doctors, it turned into a comprehensive pub ...

, the

University of California at Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant uni ...

, and the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

, before being appointed professor of history at the

University of Maryland The University of Maryland, College Park (University of Maryland, UMD, or simply Maryland) is a public land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland. Founded in 1856, UMD is the flagship institution of the University System of M ...

. She still held this post when she died in New York on August 21, 1971, at the age of fifty-eight.

Major publications

* ''The Selected Writings of John and John Quincy Adams'' (ed.) (1946) * ''The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions: An episode in Jefferson's and Madison's defense of civil liberties'' (Bobbs-Merrill, 1948) * ''Jefferson and Madison: The Great Collaboration'' (Alfred A. Knopf, 1950) * ''Hamilton, Adams, and the Pursuit of Power'' (University of Notre Dame Press, 1954) * ''James Madison and the Workshop of Liberty'' (University of Notre Dame Press, 1954) * ''Philosophy for a Time of Crisis: An Interpretation with Key Writings by Fifteen Great Modern Thinkers'' (Dutton, 1959) *
Power, Morals, and the Founding Fathers: Essays in the Interpretation of the American Enlightenment
' (Cornell University, 1961, new edition 1970) * ''Adams and Jefferson: Posterity Must Judge'' (Rand McNally & Co., 1964) * ''The American Enlightenment, the Shaping of the American Experiment and a Free Society'' (George Braziller, 1965). Preface by

Frank Freidel Frank Burt Freidel, Jr. (May 22, 1916 – January 25, 1993) was an American historian, the first major biographer of former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and one of the first scholars to work on his papers stored in the Roosevelt Library ...

. A 669-page anthology of the writings of

Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin ( April 17, 1790) was an American polymath who was active as a writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher, and political philosopher. Encyclopædia Britannica, Wood, 2021 Among the leading inte ...

John Adams John Adams (October 30, 1735 – July 4, 1826) was an American statesman, attorney, diplomat, writer, and Founding Father who served as the second president of the United States from 1797 to 1801. Before his presidency, he was a leader of t ...

Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826) was an American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809. He was previously the natio ...

James Madison James Madison Jr. (March 16, 1751June 28, 1836) was an American statesman, diplomat, and Founding Father. He served as the fourth president of the United States from 1809 to 1817. Madison is hailed as the "Father of the Constitution" for h ...

, and Alexander Hamilton. * ''Madison's Advise to My Country: The Whig-Clio bicentennial lectures'' (Princeton University Press, 1966) * ''The American Enlightenment: The Shaping of the American Experiment and a Free Society, as Revealed in the Thoughts and Writings of Our Major Philosopher-Statesmen'' (George Braziller, 1966) * ''Adrienne Koch (1912-1971)'' by Adrienne Koch (University of Maryland, 1972, 85pp) * ''Jefferson (Great Lives Observed)'' (Prentice Hall, 1971) * ''Philosophy of Thomas Jefferson'' (Columbia University Press, 1943) * ''The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson'' (ed. Adrienne Koch and William Peden) (Random House, new edition 1998, limited edition from

Franklin Library The Franklin Mint is a private mint founded by Joseph Segel in 1964 in Wawa, Pennsylvania. The building is in Middletown Township. The brand name was previously owned by Sequential Brands Group headquartered in New York City, New York. It is ...

, 1982) * ''Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 Reported by James Madison'' (ed. Adrienne Koch)

References

*''Historical News and Notices'' in ''Journal of Southern History'' (vol. 38, No 1, February, 1972) * ''Adrienne Koch (1912-1971)'' (University of Maryland, 1972, 85pp) {{DEFAULTSORT:Koch, Adrienne 1913 births 1971 deaths University of Michigan faculty Tulane University faculty University of California, Berkeley faculty New York University alumni Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni Institute for Advanced Study visiting scholars American women historians 20th-century American historians 20th-century American women writers Historians from California