Frederick Burkhardt
Frederick Burkhardt (13 September 1913 – 23 September 2007) [1] was for many years the President Emeritus of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). His decades of work on The Correspondence of Charles Darwin constituted a signal example of dedication to a demanding and ambitious scholarly enterprise. He was an Honorary Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge. For many years, Dr. Burkhardt served as President of Bennington College in Vermont from 1947 to 1949 and from 1952 to 1957.[1][2]
Burkhardt graduated from Columbia University with a B.A. in 1933 and a Ph.D. in 1940. He also earned a second bachelor's degree from the University of Oxford in 1935.[1]
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- ^ Jump up to: a b "OBITUARIES". Columbia College Today. April 2008. Retrieved June 9, 2021.
- ^ Writer, JOHN WALLER, Staff. "Former Bennington College leader dies". Bennington Banner. Retrieved 2021-06-09.
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