Auburn University and UAB historian, religion scholar David Edwin Harrell dies
Updated Mar 15, 2021;
Posted Mar 15, 2021
Retired Auburn University historian David Edwin Harrell died on Monday, March 15, 2021. He was 91. (Photo by Tamika Moore/AL.com)
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Harrell died on Monday afternoon, March 15. He was 91.
“He died very peacefully at home,” on Ponte Vedra Beach, near Jacksonville, Fla., where he was born, said his wife, Adelia Harrell. Last fall, Harrell suffered two strokes, she said.
Harrell was the Daniel Breeden Eminent Scholar at Auburn from 1990 to 2005, when he retired. He was a professor at UAB from 1970-81, and returned to UAB from 1985-90. He was chairman of the history department at UAB from 1985-87.