George Pullen Jackson

JACKSON, George Pullen. b. Monson, Maine, 20 August 1874; d. Nashville, Tennessee, 19 January 1953. Raised largely in Birmingham, Alabama, he studied at the Royal Conservatory of Music, Dresden, and at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, before receiving his PhB (1904) and PhD (1911) degrees from the University of Chicago. He did post-doctoral study at the universities of Chicago, Munich, and Bonn, and taught at several American universities before his appointment as associate professor of German at Vanderbilt in 1918; he was full professor, 1926, and head of the department until his retirement in 1943. Throughout his career he was an active participant in community music of many...