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Stevenson (EDWARD LUTHER an American)

EDWARD LUTHER, an American educator, born at Rozetta, Illinois, in 1860. He was educated at Franklin (Ind.) College, Johns Hopkins University, and the universities of Jena, Halle, and Heidelberg. From 1881 to 1887 he was principal of high schools and superintendent of schools in Illinois; from 1891 to 1911, professor of history, Rutgers College, New Brunswick, N. J.; from 1910 to 1917 secretary of the Hispanic Society of America, of which society he became acting director in 1915.

He also lectured on historical geography, history, and cartographical subjects at Johns Hopkins, Columbia, University of California, and numerous other scientific and educational institutions. He was a member of several domestic and foreign historical and geographical societies, and published: "Maps Illustrating Discovery and Early Exploration in America, 1502-1530" (1903-1906); "Charter of Queens College (now Rutgers) of 1772" (1907); "Hondius World Map of 1611" (1907); "The Marine World Chart of Nicolo de Canerio" (1908); "Early Spanish Cartography of the New World" (1909); "Atlas of Portolan Charts" (1911); "Portolan Charts, Their Origin and Characteristics" (1911); "The Genoese World Map, 1457" (1912); "Christopher Columbus and His Enterprise" (1913); "Willem Janszoon Blaeu, His Life and Work with Facsimile of His Large World Map of 1605" (1914); "Portolan Atlas 'Conte de Ottoma Freducci, 1537'" (1915); "Facsimiles of Portolan Charts" (1917); "Terrestrial and Celestial Globes" (1917).