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Walter L. Arnstein

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American historian (1930–2019)

Walter Leonard Arnstein (14 May 1930 – 6 October 2019) was a German-born American historian who was Professor of History Emeritus and Jubilee Professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences Emeritus at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign from 1968–98. He specialised in the history of Victorian Britain.

Arnstein was born in Stuttgart into a Jewish family. They immigrated to the United States in 1939 and became U.S. citizens in 1942. His father, Richard, was a shipping clerk. Arnstein adopted the middle name "Leonard" in honor of American conductor Leonard Bernstein.

Arnstein graduated magna cum laude from the City College of New York in 1951 and earned a Master of Arts from Columbia University in 1954. He was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of London and in 1961 earned his doctorate in History at Northwestern University in 1961.

From 1951–53, he served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War as an assistant battalion supply sergeant in an anti-aircraft battalion.

In 2001, he received a festschrift in his honor, titled Splendidly Victorian, and edited by Michael Shirley and Todd Larson.

He married Charlotte Sutphen in 1952. He died in 2019 in Urbana.

Selected publications

  • The Bradlaugh Case: A Study in Late Victorian Opinion and Politics (1965, 1984)
  • Britain, Yesterday and Today: 1830 to the Present (1966, 2018)
  • Queen Victoria (2003)

References

  1. "Arnstein, Walter Leonard". Encyclopedia.com.
  2. "Walter L. Arnstein". Midwest Victorian Studies Association. June 28, 2015.
  3. New York, U.S., State and Federal Naturalization Records, 1794–1943
  4. ^ "Senate Resolution Honoring Dr. Walter L. Arnstein". State Record. State Assembly. October 2019. Retrieved May 7, 2024.
  5. Shirley, Michael; Larson, Todd (2017). Splendidly Victorian: Essays in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century British History in Honour of Walter L. Arnstein. doi:10.4324/9781315203492. ISBN 9781315203492.
  6. Paquette, Jean (January 1, 2004). "Queen Victoria". History: Reviews of New Books. 32 (3): 105. doi:10.1080/03612759.2004.10528671. S2CID 147058340 – via Taylor and Francis+NEJM.


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