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David Woodward was an English-born American historian of cartography and cartographer.
Occupation
geographer, cartographer
Citizenship
United States
Born
August 29, 1942
Died
August 25, 2004
Overview
David Woodward (29 August 1942 – 25 August 2004) was an English-born American historian of cartography and cartographer.
Biography
Woodward was born in Royal Leamington Spa, England. After receiving a bachelor's degree from the Swansea University (then the University of Wales at Swansea), he moved to the United States to study cartography under Arthur H. Robinson at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He earned a doctorate in geography in 1970.
Woodward spent the next 11 years at the Newberry Library in Chicago as cartographic specialist and curator of maps. He served as director of the library's Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography from 1974 to 1980.
In 1980, Woodward returned to University of Wisconsin–Madison as a member of the faculty; he was named Arthur H. Robinson Professor of Geography in 1995. Woodward was a part of the university's cartography department until he retired from teaching in August 2002 to dedicate more of his time to research, editing, and outreach.
