Schofield, William Henry, 1870-1920

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Name (Latin)
Schofield, William Henry, 1870-1920
Date of birth
1870-04-06
Date of death
1920-06-24
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 94531167
Wikidata: Q8012143
Library of congress: n 50005061
Sources of Information
  • His Studies on the Libeaus Desconus.
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Wikipedia description:

William Henry Schofield (1870–1920) was a Canadian-American academic, founder of the Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature. He was a professor of comparative literature at Harvard University, and president of the American-Scandinavian Foundation (1916–1919). He taught Old Norse at Harvard from 1900 and from 1906 was director of the new Comparative Literature department.

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