Nitze, William Albert, 1876-1957

Nitze was born on Mar. 20, 1876 in Baltimore, MD; AB (1894) and Ph. D (1899), Johns Hopkins Univ.; studied at European universities, 1896-98; lecturer in romance languages, Columbia Univ., 1899-1903; assoc. professor and professor of romance languages, Amherst, 1903-8; professor, UC Berkeley, 1908-9; became professor and head of the dept. of romance languages and literatures at the Univ. of Chicago in 1909; Pyne professor, Princeton Univ., 1932; professor of French, UCLA, 1942-46; named Chevalier, Legion of Honor (France), 1928; served as president of the Modern Language Assn., 1929-30; trustee of the Newberry Library, 1935-42; editor of Corneille's selected works (with S.L. Galpin, 1907); other publications include The Old French Grail romance Perlesvaus : a study of its principal sources (1902), A history of French literature from the earliest times to the great war (1922), and Arthurian romance and modern poetry and music (c1940); he died on July 5, 1957.

From the description of Papers, 1908-1956. (University of California, Los Angeles). WorldCat record id: 41069362

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