Memorial for Barry Karl set for Oct. 29 in Bond Chapel

A memorial for Barry D. Karl, Professor in History, will be held at 3 p.m. Friday, Oct. 29 in Bond Chapel.

Karl, a historian whose study of 20th-century American politics led him to become a leading expert on philanthropy, died July 7 at the University of Chicago Medical Center. He was 82.

Karl was the Norman and Edna Freehling Professor Emeritus in History and an authority on the origins of the modern foundation, which began with Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller and Mrs. Russell Sage.

A native of Louisville, Ky., Karl received a B.A. from the University of Louisville in 1949, an A.M. from Chicago in 1951 and a Ph.D. from Harvard in 1961. He served on the faculties of Harvard, Washington University in St. Louis and Brown University before joining the Chicago faculty in 1971.

Karl was chair of the Department of History at Chicago from 1976 to 1979 and served in other administrative capacities at the University.