Charles Upson Clark (1875–1960) was a professor of history at

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. He discovered the Barberini Codex, the earliest

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writings on herbal medicines extant.

Biography

Clark was born in 1875 to Edward Perkins Clark and Catharine Pickens Upson. Throughout his life he was the author of many books on a variety of subjects. Among them was the history of West Indies by Antonio Vázquez de Espinosa translated into English, and the modern history of

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."The Birth of the Romanian State" He also collaborated with the American School of Classical Studies in Rome, where he held a directory of Classical Studies and Archaeology since 1910. He died in 1960.

Works

* "The Text Tradition of

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", 1904 * " Greater Roumania",

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, 1922
Chapter X
* " Bessarabia,

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and Roumania on the

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", Dodd, Mead and Company, 1927.
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References

External links

* * Steven Foster
The Badianus Manuscript: The First Herbal from the Americas
1992

El Consejo Real y Supremo de las Indias: Su historia, organizacion, y labor administrativo hasta la terminacion de la Casa de Austria

The Birth of the Romanian State

American historians Columbia University faculty 1875 births 1960 deaths Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America {{US-historian-stub