Alice Bache Gould
| Alice Bache Gould | |
|---|---|
| Born |
January 5, 1868 Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A. |
| Died | July 25, 1953 (aged 85) Simancas, Spain |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Historian |
| Alma mater | Bryn Mawr College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Newham College, University of Chicago |
| Doctoral advisor | E. H. Moore |
Alice Bache Gould (Gould y Quincy; January 5, 1868 in Cambridge, Massachusetts – July 25, 1953 in Simancas) was an American mathematician, philanthropist, and historian, who spent much of her time in South America and Spain.
Bache Gould trained as a mathematician and undertook graduate studies in mathematics, teaching for a time at Carleton College, Minnesota. Finding work as a mathematician proved difficult. As a historian, her studies of Christopher Columbus and Queen Isabella I of Castile resulted in the most complete biographical account of Columbus' crew. In 1942, Gould became the only female corresponding member of Real Academia de la Historia and was awarded the Order of Isabella the Catholic (in 1952).
Alice Bache Gould was born on January 5, 1868, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Benjamin Apthorp Gould (1824-1896) and Mary Apthorp Quincy Gould (1834-1883). Her mother was part of the Quincy political family. Her father, an astronomer, headed the Argentine National Observatory. Alice lived briefly with her family in Cordoba, Argentina before being sent back to Cambridge in 1871, to live with relatives. Alice lived mainly in the United States but frequently traveled to Argentina. Tragically, while on a birthday trip to the River Rio Primero on February 8, 1874, her older sisters Susan Morton Quincy Gould and Lucretia Goddard Gould and their nurse Alvina Fontaine were swept away and drowned. Alice and her younger siblings Mary and Benjamin were unable to help. In 1883, Alice Bache Gould suffered a further loss when her mother died. Her father finally returned from Argentina in 1885.
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