Herman Vandenburg Ames, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Herman Vandenburg Ames

American author and academic

Date of Birth: 07-Aug-1865

Place of Birth: Lancaster, Massachusetts, United States

Date of Death: 07-Feb-1935

Profession: historian, archivist

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Herman Vandenburg Ames (; August 7, 1865 – February 7, 1935) was an American legal historian, educator, and archivist long associated with the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a professor of United States constitutional history and, from 1907 to 1928, dean of its graduate school.
His 1897 monograph, The Proposed Amendments to the Constitution of the United States During the First Century of Its History, was a landmark work in American constitutional history.
Other works by Ames included John C.
Calhoun and the Secession Movement of 1850, Slavery and the Union 1845–1861, and The X.Y.Z.
Letters, the latter of which he authored with John Bach McMaster.
Among his notable students were Ezra Pound, John Musser, and Herbert Eugene Bolton. A member of the Ames family, Herman Ames was born in Massachusetts and educated at Amherst College.
He received his doctorate from Harvard University, where he was the Ozias Goodwin Memorial Fellow in Constitutional and International Law, and studied under Albert Bushnell Hart.
Like Hart, Ames spent time in Europe learning German historical methodology and was influenced in his own research by its approach.
He was a driving force behind the establishment of the Pennsylvania State Archives and helped guide the widespread establishment of government archives throughout the United States.
His papers are housed at the University of Pennsylvania's University Archives.