Marius Berthus Jansen (April 11, 1922 – December 10, 2000)[1] was an American academic, historian, and Emeritus Professor of Japanese History at
Princeton University.[2]
Biography
Jansen was born in
Vleuten in
the Netherlands to Gerarda and Bartus Jansen, a florist who moved his family to
Johnston, Rhode Island in the fall of 1923.[3] Jansen grew up in
Massachusetts and graduated from
Princeton in 1943, having majored in European history of the Renaissance and Reformation. The same year, he began serving in the Army, studying Japanese and working in the
Occupation of Japan.[4] He completed his PhD in history at
Harvard in 1950, studying Japan with
Edwin O. Reischauer and China with
John K. Fairbank. His dissertation dealt with the interactions of the two countries and was published as The Japanese and
Sun Yat Sen in 1954.[5]
In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Marius Jansen,
OCLC/
WorldCat encompasses roughly 100+ works in 300+ publications in 12 languages and 13,900+ library holdings.[7]
^See Chalmers Johnson, "Reviewed Work: Japan and China: From War to Peace, 1894–1972 by Marius B. Jansen" The Journal of Japanese Studies (1975) 2#1 pp. 147–152
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