Herbert Tuttle (1846–1894) was an American historian.

Biography

Herbert Tuttle was born in

Bennington, Vermont Bennington is a New England town, town in Bennington County, Vermont, United States. It is one of two shire towns (county seats) of the county, the other being Manchester (town), Vermont, Manchester. As of the 2020 United States Census, US Cens ...

on November 29, 1846. He graduated in 1869 from the

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. From 1880 to 1881 he was a lecturer on international law at the

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, and in the latter year was appointed to the

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of politics and international law at

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. He was subsequently transferred to the chair of

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in the Department of History. He married Mary McArthur on July 6, 1875. He died in

Ithaca, New York Ithaca () is a city in and the county seat of Tompkins County, New York, United States. Situated on the southern shore of Cayuga Lake in the Finger Lakes region of New York (state), New York, Ithaca is the largest community in the Ithaca metrop ...

on June 21, 1894.

Books

* ''German Political Leaders'' (1876) * ''History of Prussia to the Accession of Frederick the Great'' (1884) * ''History of Prussia under Frederick the Great'' (1888)

References

* 1846 births 1894 deaths 19th-century American historians 19th-century American male writers Cornell University faculty Cornell University Department of History faculty University of Vermont alumni People from Bennington, Vermont University of Michigan Law School faculty American male non-fiction writers {{US-historian-stub