Edmund von Mach (August 1, 1870 – July 15, 1927) was a

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art historian and lecturer on art.

Life and career

He was born on August 1, 1870, in Jawory,

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, eastern

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(now Poland). He came to America in 1891, and was educated at

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(A.B., 1895; A.M., 1896; Ph.D., 1900), where he was an instructor in fine arts from 1899 to 1903. He was also an instructor in the history of art at Wellesley College from 1899 to 1902, and thereafter lectured on the same subject at Bradford Academy. He is the author of ''Greek Sculpture: Its Spirit and Principles'' (1903); ''A Handbook of Greek and Roman Sculpture'' (1904); ''Outlines of the History of Painting'' (1905); ''The Art of Painting in the Nineteenth Century'' (1908). Of the ''Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler'' he became American editor. After the outbreak (1914) of the

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he endeavored to foster a pro-German sentiment among Americans, and with this object in view wrote ''What Germany Wants'' (1914) and translated

Paul Rohrbach Paul Rohrbach (29 June 1869 – 19 July 1956) was a Baltic Germans, Baltic German writer, concerned with politics, "world politics." He was born at Irgen manor, Raņķi parish, Skrunda Municipality, in the Courland Governorate (then part of the Ru ...

's ''Der Deutsche Gedanke in der Welt'' as ''German World Politics'' (1915). In March, 1915, he debated questions of the war with

Cecil Chesterton Cecil Edward Chesterton (12 November 1879 – 6 December 1918) was an English journalist and political commentator, known particularly for his role as editor of '' The New Witness'' from 1912 to 1916, and in relation to its coverage of the Marco ...

at Carnegie Hall, New York. He died on July 15, 1927 at the Eastern Maine General Hospital in Bangor, Maine following an operation for

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Legacy

In the 1910s and 1920s, an important archaeological site, now called the

Von Mach Site The Von Mach Site is an archaeological site in Brooksville, Maine. Located on the south bank of the Bagaduce River opposite Castine, the principal feature of the site is a large shell midden, yielding evidence of a long period of human habitatio ...

, was excavated by

Warren K. Moorehead Warren King Moorehead was known in his time as the 'Dean of American archaeology'; born in Siena, Italy to missionary parents on March 10, 1866, he died on January 5, 1939 at the age of 72, and is buried in his hometown of Xenia, Ohio. Moorehead ...

on von Mach's property in Brooksville, Maine. The site was added to the

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on January 17, 1989.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Mach, Edmund von American political writers German emigrants to the United States Harvard University alumni American art historians 1870 births 1927 deaths American male non-fiction writers Deaths from appendicitis People from Słupsk County