Adelmann, Frederick Joseph, 1915-1996

Frederick Joseph Adelmann, SJ, was born on February 18, 1915. He graduated from Boston College in 1937 and entered the Society of Jesus. He was ordained in 1947 and joined the faculty at Boston College in 1954, serving as Philosophy Department chairman from that year until 1965. He received a Ph.D. from St. Louis University in 1955, and specialized in Marxism and Soviet philosophy. Adelmann established and edited the journal Boston College Studies in Philosophy, and published five books and numerous articles in philosophical journals. Adelmann retired in 1985, having spent his entire academic career at Boston College. He was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree at the 1985 Commencement Exercises, and Boston College established an endowed chair in his honor in 1995 with a gift from Patrick and Lillian Carney. Adelmann died on April 1, 1996.