Ralph Willis Baldner

Ralph Willis Baldner (born July 29, 1913 - † May 2, 1987 ) was an American Romance studies and French studies .

Life

Baldner studied at Miami University in Oxford (Ohio) (AB 1934) and at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee (MA 1936 with the thesis The philosophy of Romain Rolland ). After his military service he studied and taught at the University of California at Berkeley , where he received his doctorate in 1957 with the dissertation The theory and practice of the Nouvelle in France from 1600 to 1660 (Berkeley 1957). Baldner was Professor of French at the University of Victoria in Victoria (British Columbia) , Canada. His grave is in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu .

(Ed. With J. Beattie MacLean) Proceedings. Pacific Northwest Conference on Foreign Languages . University of Victoria 17, 1966.
(Ed. With Irwin Weil) Proceedings. Pacific Northwest Conference on Foreign Languages . Gonzaga University 18, 1967.
(Ed.) Proceedings. Pacific Northwest Conference on Foreign Languages . University of Victoria 21, 1970.
Bibliography of seventeenth-century French prose fiction , New York, Printed for the Index Committee of the Modern Language Association of America, by the Columbia University Press, 1967.

personal data
SURNAME	Baldner, Ralph Willis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American Romance studies and French studies
DATE OF BIRTH	July 29, 1913
DATE OF DEATH	May 2, 1987