Herbert Richardson (publisher)
| Herbert Warren Richardson III | |
|---|---|
| Born | April 14, 1932 |
| Residence | Lewiston, New York |
| Nationality | American |
| Education |
Ohio Military Institute Baldwin-Wallace College University of Paris, (Sorbonne) Harvard Divinity School |
| Occupation | Publisher, Professor |
| Known for | Founder of The Edwin Mellen Press |
| Spouse(s) | Dorothy Richardson |
| Children | 4 |
| Relatives | Isaac Adams (great grandfather) |
Herbert Warren Richardson (born April 14, 1932) is an American professor of theology, an ordained Presbyterian minister, and the founder of The Edwin Mellen Press, which describes itself as "a non-subsidy academic publisher of books in the humanities and social sciences."
Herbert Warren Richardson was born in 1932. Richardson is the great grandson of Isaac Adams, a Massachusetts State Senator and the inventor of the Adams Power Press. He attended Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, Ohio and pledged an interracial fraternity, where his friends included James Lawson, the activist and an architect of the civil-rights movement. In 1963, Richardson earned his doctorate at Harvard Divinity School where he later he served as an assistant professor, until 1968.
He was the first professor appointed to the HDS faculty who was trained by it, which he served "with unusual elan" as a teacher and scholar.
As a scholar of religious studies, Richardson made a name for himself early on, publishing a translation of the works of St. Anselm of Canterbury and an early exploration of American theology. During the height of the ecumenical movement in the late 1960s, he left Harvard for the University of St. Michael's College, a Roman Catholic institution that is part of the University of Toronto. In 1970, he was invited to become a Gastprofessor at the University of Tübingen. There, he learned publishing, also known as "S4S" ("scholar-for-scholar") publishing.
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