{{short description|American historian}}
{{Infobox person | name = Leonard Mackall | image = | caption = | birth_name = Leonard Leopold Mackall | birth_date = January 29, 1879 | birth_place = Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|1937|5|19|1879|1|29}} | death_place = Fredericksburg, Virginia, U.S. | burial_place = Bonaventure Cemetery, Savannah, Georgia, U.S. | occupation = Historian, biographer }}
'''Leonard Leopold Mackall''' (January 29, 1879 – May 19, 1937) was an American historian. He was an eminent biographer.
== Early life == Mackall was born in 1879 in Baltimore, Maryland,<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Wroth |first=Lawrence C. |date=1938 |title=Leonard Mackall |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40576526 |journal=The Georgia Historical Quarterly |volume=22 |issue=1 |pages=10–15 |issn=0016-8297}}</ref> to Leonard Covington Mackall and Louisa Frederika Lawton.<ref name=":2" /> His father died when Leonard was eleven years old.<ref name=":02">{{Cite web |last=Harding |first=Jayne |date=February 28, 2004 |title=A Renaissance Woman |url=https://fredericksburg.com/town_and_countylocal_history/a-renaissance-woman/article_e0e14d13-ffb0-58b7-9a92-69c8acfa515e.html |access-date=2020-10-18 |website=The Free Lance-Star |language=en}}</ref> He had one brother, Alexander Lawton, and one sister, Corinne.<ref name=":2" />
He graduated from Lawrenceville School in Lawrenceville, New Jersey in 1896,<ref name=":0" /> before receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University in 1900.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Leonard L. Mackall - Georgia Historical Society |url=https://www.georgiahistory.com/bio/leonard-l-mackall/ |access-date=2025-04-06 |website=Georgia Historical Society |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Mackall, Leonard L. (Leonard Leopold), 1879-1937 {{!}} Johns Hopkins University Libraries Archives Public Interface |url=https://archivesspace.library.jhu.edu/agents/people/63 |access-date=2025-04-06 |website=archivesspace.library.jhu.edu}}</ref> He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1902,<ref name=":2" /> then studied at the University of Berlin and the University of Jena.<ref name=":1" />
== Career == In 1916, Mackall was tasked, by Wymberley Wormsloe De Renne, to fill in the spaces on the shelves of De Renne Georgia Library, established by De Renne on the family's Wormsloe Estate in Savannah, Georgia.<ref name=":2" /> Mackall worked on the project until the latter stages of World War I.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Wormsloe |first=Wymberley Jones De Renne Georgia Library |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Catalogue_of_the_Wymberley_Jones_De_Renn/whU7AQAAMAAJ?hl=en |title=Catalogue of the Wymberley Jones De Renne Georgia Library at Wormsloe: Isle of Hope Near Savannah, Georgia ... |date=1931 |publisher=Privately printed |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=De Renne Family |url=https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/de-renne-family/ |access-date=2025-04-06 |website=New Georgia Encyclopedia |language=en-US}}</ref>
In 1920, he was elected to the Century Association, having been nominated by Robert Grier Monroe and Gari Melchers, Mackall's brother-in-law.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Leonard L. Mackall – Member Directory – Century Archives |url=https://centuryarchives.org/member-directory/?PersonID=1834&Search=1af2b8fedc9221eb43598debba20a3ad |access-date=2025-04-06 |website=centuryarchives.org}}</ref>
Mackall was president of the Bibliographical Society of America in 1936-1937.<ref>Van Hoesen, Henry B. (1941). "The Bibliographical Society of America—Its Leaders and Activities, 1904–1939". ''Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America.'' 35 (3): 177–202.</ref><ref>Malloch, Archibald. “DEATH OF MR. LEONARD L. MACKALL. Consultant in Bibliography.” ''The Georgia Historical Quarterly'' 22, no. 1 (1938): 16–21.</ref> In 1937 he was president of the Georgia Historical Society.<ref name=":1" />
He was also a member of Savannah's Oglethorpe Club.<ref name=":2" />
== Death == Mackall died in 1937 at Mary Washington Hospital in Fredericksburg, Virginia,<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Leonard Leopold Mackall. {{!}} American Antiquarian Society |url=https://www.americanantiquarian.org/node/11132 |access-date=2025-04-06 |website=www.americanantiquarian.org}}</ref> aged 58.<ref name=":2">{{Cite news |date=1937-05-20 |title=LEONARD MACKALL, BIBLIOPHILES' HEAD; President of Bibliographical Society of America Dies in Virginia at 58 EDITED GOETHE LETTERS Had Been Savannah Librarian and Also Headed Georgia Historical Society |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1937/05/20/archives/leonard-mackall-bibliophiles-head-president-of-bibliographical.html |access-date=2025-04-06 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> He had been ill for several months.<ref name=":2" /> He was interred in Savannah's Bonaventure Cemetery.<ref name=":2" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Leonard L. Mackall – Member Directory – Century Archives |url=https://centuryarchives.org/member-directory/?PersonID=1834&Search=1af2b8fedc9221eb43598debba20a3ad |access-date=2025-04-06 |website=centuryarchives.org}}</ref>
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