Leo Damrosch
Leo Damrosch (* 1941 in Manila ) is an American author and emeritus professor of literature.
Damrosch studied at Yale and Trinity College , Cambridge. In 1968 he did his PhD at Princeton University . He then worked as a professor of English literature at the University of Virginia (1966–83) and the University of Maryland at College Park (1983–89). From 1989 until his retirement he taught at Harvard . In 2005 he published a biography on Jean-Jacques Rousseau .
In 2007 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
Works
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius , Houghton Mifflin, 2005
- Tocqueville's Discovery of America , Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010
- Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World , Yale University Press, 2013
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stacy Schiff : 'Jean-Jacques Rousseau': An Unruly Mind . In: The New York Times . November 6, 2005 ( nytimes.com ).
- ↑ Pankaj Mishra : Presidential elections in the USA (4/4) - Where Trump could invoke Rousseau . In: Deutschlandfunk . October 30, 2016 ( deutschlandfunk.de - translated from English).
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Damrosch, Leo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Damrosch, Leopold (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American author and professor of literature |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Manila |