Gerald Kamber

Gerald Kamber (born March 15, 1925 in Asbury Park , New Jersey , † October 30, 2014 in Loch Arbor , New Jersey) was an American Romanist , Frenchist and Italianist .

life and work

Kamber, who was descended from Ashkenazim , served in the United States Marine Corps from 1943 to 1946 . He then studied at Rutgers University (BA 1950), Middlebury College (MA 1952), and 1951 in Paris and Florence. He continued his studies in Baltimore , among others with Henry Carrington Lancaster and Leo Spitzer . From 1959 to 1962 he taught French and Italian at Goucher College in Baltimore. In 1962 he received his doctorate from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore with the work Max Jacob . Clown and convert (published by T. Max Jacob and the poetics of cubism , Baltimore / London, Johns Hopkins Press, 1971). From 1962 to 1969 he taught as Associate Professor of Romance Languages at Bowdoin College , from 1969 to 1972 at Kent State University and from 1972 to 1976 at the State University of New York at Potsdam . Then he was Professor of Romance Studies at Trinity College (Connecticut) in Hartford (Connecticut) until his retirement . From 2002 to 2010 he taught English as a second language at Brookdale Community College in Long Branch, New Jersey and at Neptune.

personal data
SURNAME	Kamber, Gerald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American Romanist, Frenchist and Italianist
DATE OF BIRTH	March 15, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH	Asbury Park , New Jersey
DATE OF DEATH	October 30, 2014
Place of death	Loch Arbor , New Jersey