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Alma mater | Harvard University |
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Discipline | German language and literature |
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Walter Silz (27 September 1894, Cleveland – 30 May 1980, Princeton, New Jersey) was an American professor of German language and literature and in 1965 winner of the Grosses Verdienstkreuz from West Germany. [1]
Born to a German-American family in Cleveland, Silz received his A.B. in 1917 and his Ph.D. in 1922 from Harvard University. [2] In 1922 he married Frieda Bertha Ruprecht Osgood, the daughter of William Fogg Osgood; [3] she died in 1937. [4] Silz taught at Harvard and at Washington University in St. Louis before becoming a professor at Swarthmore College. He headed what was then the German section of the department of modern languages at Princeton University from 1948 to 1954. [5] From 1954 to 1963 he held the Gebhard Chair of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Columbia University. He was twice awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, once for the academic year 1926–1927 and again for the academic year 1960–1961. He died in 1980. His second wife, Priscilla Kramer Silz, was a professor of German at Rider College. [2]
as author:
as editor: German romantic lyrics. 1934.
Walter Silz | |
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Awards | |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Harvard University |
Academic work | |
Discipline | German language and literature |
Institutions |
Walter Silz (27 September 1894, Cleveland – 30 May 1980, Princeton, New Jersey) was an American professor of German language and literature and in 1965 winner of the Grosses Verdienstkreuz from West Germany. [1]
Born to a German-American family in Cleveland, Silz received his A.B. in 1917 and his Ph.D. in 1922 from Harvard University. [2] In 1922 he married Frieda Bertha Ruprecht Osgood, the daughter of William Fogg Osgood; [3] she died in 1937. [4] Silz taught at Harvard and at Washington University in St. Louis before becoming a professor at Swarthmore College. He headed what was then the German section of the department of modern languages at Princeton University from 1948 to 1954. [5] From 1954 to 1963 he held the Gebhard Chair of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Columbia University. He was twice awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, once for the academic year 1926–1927 and again for the academic year 1960–1961. He died in 1980. His second wife, Priscilla Kramer Silz, was a professor of German at Rider College. [2]
as author:
as editor: German romantic lyrics. 1934.