Mansfield Freeman

Mansfield Freeman
Born (1895-09-16)September 16, 1895
Waltham, Massachusetts
Died November 17, 1992(1992-11-17)
Greensboro, Vermont
Occupation Insurance executive

Mansfield Freeman was born in Waltham, Massachusetts on September 16, 1895, the son of Luther Freeman, a Methodist minister. He was one of the original management group that started an insurance business in China that became the American International Group (AIG). He also was a prominent scholar of Chinese philosophy and a generous philanthropist. He died on November 17, 1992 at his farm in Greensboro, Vermont at the age of 97.

Freeman was also the founder of the Freeman Foundation.[1] He was an alumnus of Wesleyan University in Connecticut, year of 1916. The Freeman Asian Scholarship was established at Wesleyan in his honor.[2][3] In addition, his endowment established the Freeman Center for East Asian Studies at the university.[4][5][6]

Freeman's published works include an introduction to and translation of Preservation of Learning by Yen Yuan, a 17th-century Chinese philosopher. In 1990, he co-authored Tai Chen and Mencius: Explorations in Words and Meaning with Annping Chin, who is now a professor at Yale.

Notes

  1. ↑ http://www.macalester.edu/freemangrant/about_Freeman.html
  2. ↑ http://www.wesleyan.edu/fasa/about_scholarship.htm
  3. ↑ http://www.stowetoday.com/stowe_reporter/news/local_news/article_fcac8f38-039f-11e0-aed6-001cc4c03286.html
  4. ↑ http://www.jgarden.org/gardens.asp?ID=452
  5. ↑ http://www.wesleyan.edu/mansfield/
  6. ↑ http://www.wesleyan.edu/mansfield/about/index.html
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