Charles Le Guin
Charles Albert Le Guin was an American historian of France.
Life
Partly of French ancestry, Le Guin was brought up in Macon, attending public schools and then Mercer University. His bachelor's degree, majoring in History and English Literature, was interrupted by service in the US Navy, but, through the G.I. Bill, he was able to complete the degree and then take a master's degree in history at Northwestern University, graduating in December. He was then appointed to teach Western Civilisation at Syracuse University for the remainder of the year and the whole of the next. He proceeded to take up a scholarship at Emory University as the University's sixth doctoral student, studying the French Revolution under the supervision of Joseph Mathews. In 1953 he travelled to Paris as a Fulbright Scholar; on the voyage he met his future wife, Ursula K. Le Guin, marrying her a few months later. He completed his Ph.D. in 1957. He then took up a post at the University of Idaho before, in 1959, being appointed to Portland State College, where he worked until retirement in 1995 or 1996, becoming Professor Emeritus of History.His son Theo remembered him as a "husband, father, friend, scholar, teacher, gifted gardener, deeply erudite of classical music and opera, first reader of most of Ursula's writing a true hearted, true Human Being".