Neil L. Rudenstine

Neil Leon Rudenstine ( born January 21, 1935 in Danbury, Connecticut) is an American Anglist, literary scholar, educator and university teacher who was, among others, from 1991 to 2001 president of Harvard University.

Life

After visiting the Wooster School Rudenstine began studies at Princeton University, where he in 1956 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA ) acquired. A subsequent further studies at New College, University of Oxford, he finished with the assistance of a Rhodes scholarship to both a further BA as well as a Master of Arts ( M. A. ). After his return to the United States, he continued his post-graduate studies is continuing and acquired in 1964 a Doctor of Philosophy ( Ph.D.) in English Literature at Harvard University.

After he first took over in 1964 a professor of English at Harvard University, before he was 1968-1988 Professor of English at Princeton University. He was also the 1968-1972 Dean of Student Affairs and then Dean of the Faculty of English Studies, and most recently 1977-1988 Provost of Princeton University. After that, he was from 1988 to 1991 Executive Vice President of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

1991 Rudenstine was, who was also a trustee of Princeton University and the Courtauld Institute of Art, as a successor to President Derek Bok of Harvard University. He continued in this position until his replacement by Lawrence Summers in 2001.

Rudenstine, who was also director of the American Council on Education and the New York Public Library, was also chairman of Art of Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and a Trustee of the Barnes Foundation, the Goldman Sachs Foundation and since 2007 has been a Trustee of the J. Paul Getty Trust.

In addition, he is active in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the Council on Foreign Relations and the Committee for Economic Development.

Publications

  • Sidney's Poetic Development (1967 )
  • English Poetic Satire: Wyatt to Byron, co-editor George S. Rousseau ( 1972)
  • In Pursuit of the Ph.D, co-author William G. Bowen ( 1992)
  • Pointing Our Thoughts (2001)
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