LYBYER, ALBERT HOWE: 1876-
Albert Howe Lybyer , son of Salem Henry and Jane Estella Layman Lybyer, was born near Putnamville, Ind., on July 29, 1876. He received the A.B. degree from Princeton University in 1896, the A.M. in 1899, and graduated from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1900, being ordained a Presbyterian minister the same year. From 1900 to 1907 he was professor of mathematics at Robert College in Constantinople, from 1907 to 1909 he was an assistant in history at Harvard (he received the Ph.D. from Harvard in 1909), and from 1909 to 1913 he taught history at Oberlin College. He was associate professor of history at the University of Illinois until 1916, when he became professor of history at Ohio State University.
In 1918 Dr. Lybyer was a member of Col. House's commission of inquiry into terms of peace, at the close of the first World War, and in 1919 he served as an assistant in the Balkan division of the American Commission to Negotiate Peace and also as technical adviser to the American Commission on Mandates in Turkey.
He married Clara Sidney Andrews on July 25, 1901.
Information from Who's Who in America.
page: 196[View Page 196]- The Government of the Ottoman Empire in the Time of Suleiman,
the Magnificent. Cambridge, Mass., 1913.
- Question of the Near East. New
York, 1921.
- Question of the Far East.
