Zeitlin, M. A. (Marion Albert)

Zeitlin was born on Aug. 29, 1899 in Chicago; moved to AZ and attended the Univ. of Arizona; BA (1918), MA (1920), Stanford Univ.; continued study of French in Brussels and at the Sorbonne; accepted teaching position at Univ. of CA Southern Branch in 1925; moved to Berkeley two years later, earning a Ph. D in romance languages with Spanish as a major field from UC Berkeley in 1931; returned to UCLA in the same year as an asst. professor, later becoming chair of the Dept. of Spanish and Italian, as well as a full professor; founded the departmental program in Portuguese, helped to develop a curriculum in Latin American studies, and was a member of the initial committee on Latin American Studies; in 1967 he was named Comendador of the Ordem do Infante Dom Henrique by the Portuguese government and in 1968 awarded the title of Oficial of the Ordem Nacional do Cruzeiro do Sul; he was awarded the UCLA Medal for Distinguished Service in 1980; after the death of his wife Zell in 1967, he married Frances Kirschenbaum, the medieval and renaissance bibliographer at the UCLA University Research Library; Zeitlin died on Sept. 8, 1993.

From the description of Collection of reproduced manuscripts in Spanish, ca. 1931-1993. (University of California, Los Angeles). WorldCat record id: 41037674

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