Walter J. Kaiser
Walter J. Kaiser (May 31, 1931 – January 5, 2016) was an American academic.
He was the Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature Emeritus at Harvard University.[1]
From 1988 to 2002, he was the director of Villa I Tatti.[2][1]
In 1966, Kaiser married Neva Goodwin, a member of the Rockefeller family.[3] They had two children, Miranda and David Kaiser.
He earned a BA and PhD from Harvard University.[4]
Books
[edit]- Praisers Of Folly (Harvard University Press, 1963)[5]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Walter Kaiser dies". Harvard Gazette. January 12, 2016.
- ^ "Harvard Names Head Of Renaissance Center". January 19, 1988 – via NYTimes.com.
- ^ "Neva Rockefeller Engaged to Wed Walter J. Kaiser; Niece of Governor Will Be Bride of Professor at Harvard, Author". October 18, 1966 – via NYTimes.com.
- ^ https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2016/01/walter-kaiser-dies/
- ^ MacLure, Millar (July 29, 1964). "Walter Kaiser. Praisers of Folly: Erasmus, Rabelais, Shakespeare. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1963. 318 pp. $7.75". Renaissance News. 17 (2): 110–111. doi:10.2307/2858559 – via Cambridge University Press.
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