Robert Huttenback

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Robert A. Huttenback
Third Chancellor of the
University of California, Santa Barbara
Personal details
Born(1928-03-08)March 8, 1928
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
DiedJune 10, 2012(2012-06-10) (aged 84)
Camarillo, California, U.S.
SpouseFreda
ResidenceSanta Barbara, California
Alma materUniversity of California, Los Angeles (B.A., Ph.D.)

Robert Arthur Huttenback (March 8, 1928–June 10, 2012)[1] was the third Chancellor of UC Santa Barbara from 1977 to 1986.[2] He was ousted from the post in July 1986 after allegations surfaced that he and his wife Freda had embezzled more than $170,000 from the university to perform renovations on their home.[3] After two UC presidents (David P. Gardner and David S. Saxon) testified against him, Huttenback and his wife were convicted by a Santa Maria jury in July 1988.[4]

Huttenback was a German Jew whose family fled to England in 1933 when he was a young boy. Although his family lived in England for only about six years before moving again to the United States, Huttenback spoke English with a British accent for the rest of his life.[4]

Huttenback received his B.A. in 1951 and his Ph.D. with a historical dissertation in 1959, both from the University of California, Los Angeles.[4] Before returning to UCLA to earn his doctorate, Huttenback served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War.[4] From 1960 to 1977, he was a professor at the California Institute of Technology. He was a lifelong specialist in the history of British imperialism.[4]

Huttenback initially blocked the tenureship of Jenijoy La Belle, who became Caltech's first female professor when his decision was overturned.[5]

Sources[edit]

Andreas W. Daum, Hartmut Lehmann, and James J. Sheehan, eds., The Second Generation: Émigrés from Nazi Germany as Historians. With a Biobibliographic Guide, New York: Berghahn Books, 2016, ISBN 978-1-78238-985-9, pp. 13, 34, 36, 384‒85.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Who's who in the West. Vol. 11. Marquis Who's Who, Incorporated. 1968. Retrieved 2015-01-12.
  2. ^ "Robert Huttenback: 1928-2012 UCSB Chancellor 1977-86". Santa Barbara Independent. 25 July 2012. Retrieved 9 August 2015.
  3. ^ "EX-UNIVERSITY CHIEF AND WIFE HELD IN FRAUD CASE". nytimes.com. Retrieved 2015-01-12.
  4. ^ a b c d e Ebenstein, Lanny (2013). "The Rise of UCSB". Noticias: Journal of the Santa Barbara Historical Museum. 54 (3): 117–183. Retrieved 18 August 2020.
  5. ^ "Interview with Jenijoy La Belle". CaltechOralHistories. Retrieved 2020-05-02.

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Academic offices
Preceded by Chancellor of the University of California, Santa Barbara
1977–1986
Succeeded by