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Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. One of the founding fathers of cultural history, the author of over forty books and countless essays, died a few weeks shy of turning 105. It was October 25, 2012, my 65 th birthday, and he was my father-in-law.
Oct 26, 2012 · Barzun, who taught for nearly 50 years at Columbia University, passed away Thursday evening in San Antonio, where he had lived in recent years, his son-in-law Gavin Parfit said.
Oct 26, 2012 · Jacques Barzun, a Columbia University historian whose breadth of scholarship — culminating in a survey of 500 years of Western civilization — brought him renown as one of the foremost...
Parfit, Gavin J. was born on October 15, 1947 in Durban, South Africa. Education ACIS, University Natal, South Africa, 1970. Master of Business Administration, Cranfield Institute of Technology, United Kingdom, 1974. Career Chief Executive Officer Henry Vale & Company, South Africa, 1966-1972.
Oct 26, 2012 · His death was announced by Gavin Parfit, his son-in-law, the Associated Press reported. Dr. Barzun was 92 when he published what is widely regarded as his masterwork, “From Dawn to Decadence, 500 Years of Western Cultural Life: 1500 to the Present.”
Oct 25, 2012 · Barzun, who taught for nearly 50 years at Columbia University, passed away Thursday evening in San Antonio, where he had lived in recent years, his son-in-law Gavin Parfit said.
Gavin Parfit has been the Chief Executive Officer of several industrial and trading companies and most recently served as Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of a railroad supply manufacturing company based in Chicago, IL USA, with operations in 14 states as well as Europe and China.
