Gerhard Casper: Difference between revisions

{{Infobox officeholder}}

| name him = Gerhard Casper

| image = Gerhard.Casper424.jpg

| caption =

| order = 9th

| title = President of [[Stanford University]]

| term_end = August 31, 2000

| predecessor = [[Donald Kennedy]]

| successor = [[John L. Hennessy]]

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1937|12|25}}

| birth_place = [[Hamburg]], [[Germany]]

| alma_mater = [[University of Hamburg]] ([[LL.B.|LLB]])<br /> [[Yale University]] ([[LL.M.|LLM]])<br /> [[University of Freiburg]] ([[PhD]])

<nowiki>| profession = [[Political scientist|Political Scientist]]

Born December 25, 1937, Gerhard Casper grew up in [[Hamburg, Germany]]. He earned his first [[law degree]] from the [[University of Hamburg]] in 1961. In 1962, he received his [[LL.M.]] from [[Yale University]]. He then attended the [[University of Freiburg]], where he obtained his [[doctorate]] in 1964.

In the fall of 1964, Casper emigrated to the United States and spent two years as an assistant professor of political science at the [[University of California, Berkeley]]. In 1966, he joined the faculty of the [[University of Chicago Law School]]. Between 1979 and 1987, he served as dean of the law school. In 1989, Casper was appointed provost of the [[University of Chicago]] and served in that capacity until 1992. He served as president of [[Stanford University]] from 1992 to 2000.

Casper has been elected to membership in the [[American Law Institute]], the [[International Academy of Comparative Law]], the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]], the Orden Pour le mérite für Wissenschaften und Künste (Order Pour le mérite for the Sciences and Arts),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.orden-pourlemerite.de/|title=ORDEN POUR LE MÉRITE - FÜR WISSENSCHAFTEN UND KÜNSTE - ORDEN POUR LE MÉRITE|work=orden-pourlemerite.de}}</ref> and the [[American Philosophical Society]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=APS Member History|url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Gerhard+Casper&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced|access-date=2021-12-10|website=search.amphilsoc.org}}</ref> During the fall of 2006, he held the [[John W. Kluge Center|Kluge Chair]] in American Law and Governance at the [[Library of Congress]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=4035|title=Caesarism in Democratic Politics: Reflections on Max Weber Webcast - Library of Congress|work=loc.gov}}</ref> He has been awarded various honorary doctorates. On May 26, 2000 Casper received an [[Honorary degree|honorary doctorate]] from the Faculty of Social Sciences at [[Uppsala University]], [[Sweden]]<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/traditions/prizes/honorary-doctorates/ |title = Honorary doctorates - Uppsala University, Sweden| date=9 June 2023 }}</ref> That spring, he also received an [[honorary doctorate]] from [[Yale]].<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://news.stanford.edu/news/2000/june14/casperdocs-614.html |title = Casper receives honorary degrees from Yale and Uppsala University| date=23 January 2023 }}</ref>

Casper also has the honor of having been the subject of the first Google search by someone not a part of the Google team. In 1998, the future founders of [[Google]] was demonstrating their search software for [[John L. Hennessy|John Hennessy]]. He chose to search for "Gerhard Casper".<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Auletta |first1=Ken |title=Get Rich U. |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/04/30/get-rich-u |magazine=The New Yorker |publisher=Condé Nast |accessdate=16 November 2018}}</ref>

[[Category:GermanEmigrants emigrantsfrom West Germany to the United States]]