Robert Lee Wolff
Robert Lee Wolff (26 December 1915, New York City – 11 November 1980, Cambridge, Massachusetts) was a Harvard history professor, known for his 1956 book The Balkans in our time[1] and his library collection of English novels of the Victorian period with over 18,000 items.[2]
Wolff received his bachelor's degree (1936) and his master's degree from Harvard University, where he was a teaching fellow from 1937 to 1941, when he left Harvard to join the Office of Strategic Services (O.S.S.). As a leading expert on the Balkans, he was assistant to the director of the Balkans section of the O.S.S. After the end of World War II, Wolff taught for four years at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and then in 1950 became an associate professor in the Harvard history department. He became a full professor in 1955 and served as the chair of the department from 1960 to 1963. In 1963–1964 Wolff was a Guggenheim fellow. He died of a heart attack in 1980 at the age of 64, while still an active member of the Harvard history department.[3]
Wolff wrote articles, prefaces, and books on history and English literature and was the co-author of three widely used textbooks in high school and undergraduate history courses. His library of English novels of the Victorian period was acquired in the 1980s by the University of Texas at Austin for $2.6 million.
Works
- with Crane Brinton and John B. Christopher:[4]Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (textbook; 2nd edn. 1960; 3rd edn. 1967; 4th edn. 1971; 5th edn. 1976)
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. "This addition to the American Foreign Policy Library Series is easily the best single survey of the recent history of Jugoslavia, Rumania, Bulgaria and Albania. About a third of the volume is devoted to a review of the Balkans before 1939; the remainder leads us into the tortured war years and the bleak era of Communist domination. The author is Professor of History at Harvard."
- ↑ The Robert Lee Wolff Collection of 19th-Century Fiction
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- ↑ In 1946 John B. Christopher, who specialized in French and Middle Eastern history, became a professor of history at the University of Rochester. His publications include Middle East: national growing pains (1961); Lebanon: yesterday and today (1966); Islamic tradition (1972).
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- 1915 births
- 1980 deaths
- American book and manuscript collectors
- American bibliographers
- American medievalists
- Harvard University alumni
- Harvard University faculty
- Historians of the Balkans
- 20th-century American historians
- American male non-fiction writers
- People from New York City
- Historians from New York (state)
- University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty
- People of the Office of Strategic Services
- 20th-century American male writers
