Herbert Adams Gibbons

Herbert Adams Gibbons (1880–1934) was an American historian, journalist and lecturer. Born in Annapolis, Maryland, and educated at Princeton, he went to Turkey as a teacher and newspaper correspondent and witnessed the Adana massacres of 1909, then taught history at Robert College in Constantinople. During the First World War he reported from Paris and wrote widely read books on international affairs, including The New Map of Europe and The New Map of Africa. His scholarly work, The Foundation of the Ottoman Empire (1916), advanced a controversial theory of Ottoman origins. His wife, Helen Davenport Gibbons, was also a writer.