Marius Jansen

Marius Berthus Jansen (April 11, 1922-December 13, 2000)^[1] was an American academic, historian, and Emeritus Professor of Japanese History at Princeton University.^[2]

He was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.^[2]

Selected works

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.^[3]

This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.

• The Japanese and Sun Yat-sen (1951)
• Sakamoto Ryōma and the Meiji Restoration (1961)
• Changing Japanese Attitudes Toward Modernization (1965)
• Japan and its World: Two Centuries of Change (1975)
• Japan and China: from War to Peace, 1894-1972 (1975)
• Japan in Transition, from Tokugawa to Meiji (1986)
• The Making of Modern Japan (2000)

Honors

• Guggenheim Fellowship, 1979.
• Order of the Sacred Treasure, 1985.^[2]
• Japan Academy, 1999 ^[2]
• Person of Cultural Merit, 1999.^[4]

Notes

1. ^ Library of Congress Authority File: Jansen, Marius B.; retrieved 2011-07-14
2. ^ ^{a b c d} Princeton University, Office of Communications, "Professor Marius Berthus Jansen, scholar of Japanese history, dies," December 13, 2000.
3. ^ WorldCat Identities: Jansen, Marius B.
4. ^ Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (Japan): Culture 2000.

References

• Saxon, Wolfgang. "Marius B. Jansen, 78, Scholar Of Japanese History and Culture," New York Times. December 26, 2000
• "Obituary: Marius Jansen," Japan Times. December 14, 2000.