In retirement Wolf published The Barbary Coast: Algiers under the Turks, 1500-1730 (1979), which was translated into Arabic. His most important study was the major biography, Louis XIV (1968). Wolf published a number of important books, including France, 1815 to the Present (1940), The Emergence of the Great Powers (1685–1715) (1951), Toward a European Balance of Power (1640–1720) (1969). O'Connor, recalled 'his wit, passion for history, and zest for life' that stimulated his classes. 1996), two of his students, Joseph Klaits and John T. Writing his obituary ( AHA Perspectives Dec. Wolf died of leukemia on Apwhile living in a retirement community located near Syracuse. In 1966 he moved to the University of Illinois, Chicago Circle, retiring in 1974 as professor emeritus. Wolf began his teaching career at the University of Missouri in 1934, remaining there until 1943, when he took a position at the University of Minnesota.

He received his doctorate in 1934 for a dissertation on the diplomatic history of the Baghdad Railway, published in 1936. from the University of Colorado, then attended Northwestern University, before entering the doctoral program at the University of Minnesota. John Baptist Wolf (J– April 22, 1996) was an American historian, specializing in modern European history.īorn in Ouray, Colorado, on July 16, 1907, Wolf was the son of a German immigrant. For other people named John Wolf, see John Wolf (disambiguation).

Louis XIV by John B. Wolf