Harkins, William Edward
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- Harkins, William E. (William Edward)
- Harkinz, Vilʹi︠a︡m E.
Additional Information
Birth Date
- 1921-11-10
Death Date
- 2014-05-17
Has Affiliation
- Organization: Columbia University. Department of Slavic Languages
Birth Place
- State College (Pa.)
Associated Language
- English
Field of Activity
Russian language--Study and teaching
Czech language--Study and teaching
Russian literature--History and criticism
(lcsh) Czech literature--History and literature
Occupation
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Sources
- found: His Czech and Slovak literature, c1950.
- found: Czech prose, an anthology, c1983:t.p. (William E. Harkins)
- found: Prabook WWW site, March 27, 2017:William Edward Harkins page (William Edward Harkins; American Slavic languages educator; born 10 November 1921 in State College, Pennsylvania; member of faculty at Columbia University since 1949; professor of Slavic languages, 1964-1990; hereafter professor emeritus; president of the Masaryk Institute, 1970-1973) - http://prabook.com/web/person-view.html?profileId=309837
- found: Columbia University Harriman Institute WWW site, March 27, 2017:William E. Harkins, 1921-2014 page (William E. Harkins; William Harkins, Bill Harkins; Professor Emeritus in the Department of Slavic Languages at Columbia University, died on 17 May 2014; Slavist; expert on Russian prose, specialist in Slavic folklore, one fo the first American scholars to do serious work on Czech literature; author of a monograph on Karel Čapek; translator from Czech; author of the Dictionary of Russian Literature; author of a Czech language textbook and co-author of a widely used textbook of Russian grammar) - http://harriman.columbia.edu/news/william-e-harkins-1921-2014
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Change Notes
- 1980-05-23: new
- 2023-08-29: revised
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