{"id":1593,"date":"2012-09-18T09:28:44","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T16:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1593"},"modified":"2018-08-15T11:17:36","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T18:17:36","slug":"lang-george-1879-1971","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1593","title":{"rendered":"LANG, GEORGE, 1879-1971"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Professor of philosophy. Born&#8211; Feb. 22, 1879, Wellwood, Ayrshire, Scotland. Parents&#8211; George McCraken and Mary (James) Lang. In 1883 family moved to Carbon Hill, Ala., where his father opened a coal mine. Education&#8211; Southwestern Presbyterian University, Clarksville, Tenn., B.A., 1905; B.D., 1906; University of Edinburgh, 1908-1909; University of Berlin, 1912-1913; Columbia University, M.A., 1925; Alabama Presbyterian College, D.D., 1916; University of Alabama, LL. D., 1925. Taught, Alabama Presbyterian College, Anniston, 1910-1915; president, Alabama Presbyterian College, 1916-1918; chair, Philosophy Dept., University of Alabama, 1918-1949. Executive Secretary for the State Council of Defense in World War I; founded the Rotary Club of Anniston, 1916; director, Tuscaloosa Chapter, American Red Cross. A lifelong bachelor; lived in the same room in the McLester Hotel for\u00a031 years. \u00a0Awarded honorary degrees by the University of Alabama (1925) and Southwestern Presbyterian University (1937). Died May 24, 1971.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Looking Back,&#8221; Tuscaloosa News, January 16, 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Alabama Collection, Gorgas Library, University of Alabama.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Outlook for Literature in Alabama. S.l.; s.n., 1936.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Professor of philosophy. Born&#8211; Feb. 22, 1879, Wellwood, Ayrshire, Scotland. Parents&#8211; George McCraken and Mary (James) Lang. In 1883 family moved to Carbon Hill, Ala., where his father opened a coal mine. Education&#8211; Southwestern Presbyterian University, Clarksville, Tenn., B.A., 1905; B.D., 1906; University of Edinburgh, 1908-1909; University of Berlin, 1912-1913; Columbia University, M.A., 1925; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-j-l"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1593"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8627,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593\/revisions\/8627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}