Robert Maynard Hutchins
Robert Maynard Hutchins ( born January 17, 1899 in Brooklyn, New York, † May 17, 1977 in Santa Barbara, California ) was an American educational theorist.
Career
Hutchins was from 1927-1929 Dean of the Yale Law School and from 1929-1945 and President from 1945-1951 Chancellor of the University of Chicago. He is regarded as one of the most influential members of the School of secular Philosophia perennis.
After retiring from the academic world, he was chairman of the Ford Foundation. In 1959 he founded the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions.
He was 1921-1948 married to the novelist Maude Hutchins and got with her three daughters.