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Louis Charles Karpinski

Born: 08/05/1878   Rochester , NY
Died: 01/25/1956
Parents: Henry H. Karpinski, Mary Louise Karpinski
Spouse: Grace Maude Woods
Children: Robert, Mary, Louise, Ruth, Joseph, Charles

Writings

Image Title Genre Audience Publisher Date
Maps of Famous Cartographers Depicting North America: an Historical Atlas of the Great Lakes and Michigan, with Bibliography of the Printed Maps of Michigan
- second edition 		Non Fiction , Michigan History Adult Amerterdam: Meridian 1977
Early Military Books
- with Thomas M. Spaulding 		Non Fiction Adult Ann Arbor, MI : University of Michigan Press 1941
Bibliography of the Printed Maps of Michigan, 1804-1880, with a Series of over One Hundred Reproductions of Maps Constituting an Historical Atlas of the Great Lakes and Michigan Non Fiction , Michigan History Adult Lansing, MI : Michigan Historical Commission 1931
Historical Atlas of the Great Lakes and Michigan Non Fiction , Michigan History Adult Lansing, MI : Michigan Historical Commission 1931
Contributions to the History of Science Non Fiction Adult Ann Arbor, MI : University of Michigan 1930
Astronomical and Mathematical Rarities Non Fiction Adult Ann Arbor, MI : University of Michigan Library 1919
The Hindu-Arabic Numerals
- with David E. Smith 		Non Fiction Adult Boston, MA : Ginn 1911
Bibliography of Mathematical Works Printed in American through 1850
- (Publication Years: 1850, 1940) 		Non Fiction Adult University of Michigan Press, Oxford University Press

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Inclusion in biographical or critical works:

Name Date
Michigan Authors, 3rd edition 1993
American Literary Yearbook
Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Who Was Who among North American Authors
Who Was Who in America

Education:

Degree Institution Location Date
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) University of Strassburg Germany 1903
Bachelor of Arts (A.B.) Cornell University Ithaca , NY 1901

Career:

Position Organization Location Date
Instructor to Professor Emeritus of Mathematics University of Michigan Ann Arbor 1904 -1948
Faculty New York higher education institutions NY 1903 -1910
Faculty Berea College Berea 1897 -1899
Collector
- Authority on early American maps

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