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Raymond De Roover (1904-1972) Business Historian, Oliver Finley Graves, Ernest Stevelinck
Raymond De Roover (1904-1972) Business Historian, Oliver Finley Graves, Ernest Stevelinck
Accounting Historians Notebook
The distinguished historian of medieval and Renaissance business history, Raymond Adrien Marie de Roover, first won recognition for scholarly excellence as an MBA student at Harvard University in 1938. The award was the James Bowdoin Graduate Prize, and his prize-winning essay was on the Florentine wool industry. Based on an examination of Medici family account books housed in the Harvard Library, the study epitomized the research methodology de Roover was to employ throughout his career: careful study and masterful interpretation of archival accounting records. The Bowdoin Prize, further, proved only the first of a battery of prizes and honors he …